Police Search Home of Jackson’s Doctor

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Police Search Home of Jackson's Doctor
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LAS VEGAS - The police searched the home and office of Michael Jackson's personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, here on Tuesday morning.
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By STEVE FRIESS and SOLOMON MOORE
Published: July 28, 2009

LAS VEGAS — The police searched the home and office of Michael Jackson’s personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, here on Tuesday morning.
Detectives with the Los Angeles Police Department, the Los Angeles bureau of the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department served search warrant at the locations, less than one week after the authorities in Houston searched Dr. Murray’s office and storage unit in that city.

Dr. Murray, a cardiologist, is the focus of a manslaughter investigation in the death of Mr. Jackson, according to court documents filed by Los Angeles police in Texas. The physician was among the last people to see Mr. Jackson alive and attempted to resuscitate him at the singer’s Los Angeles home shortly before his death on June 25.

Toxicology reports are expected this week.

It was impossible from outside the gated community where Dr. Murray lives to see the swarm of Drug Enforcement Administration agents descending, or what they might have removed, but neighbors leaving the complex said the agents were with Las Vegas police officers. “It’s exactly as you imagine it, said a neighbor, Sherryl Stevens. “Pretty frightening.”

Agents also were seen entering Dr. Murray’s medical office in Las Vegas, Global Cardiovascular Associates. Las Vegas police source said they were looking for documents and records.

Investigators with the Los Angeles police carried away computer files, phone receipts and other evidence from Dr. Murray’s Houston office last week.

The police impounded Dr. Murray’s car shortly after Mr. Jackson’s death, and officials with the coroner’s office removed several large bags of medical equipment and prescription drugs from Mr. Jackson’s home in the Holmby Hills section of Los Angeles.

Dr. Murray, a native of Houston and the son of a prominent local physician, was suspended from Doctors Hospital there last year for allegedly failing to complete medical records in a timely manner.

Steve Friess reported from Las Vegas and Solomon Moore from Los Angeles.