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Doctor’s office raided over Michael Jackson investigation

Conrad Murray is cooperating with police

Michael Jackson was due to perform 50 dates at London's O2 arena

The clinic of Michael Jackson’s doctor was raided by police as part of their probe into the singer's death.

Officers from the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) searched Conrad Murray’s practice in Houston, Texas, for two and a half hours on Wednesday.

He is not being treated as a suspect.
 
‘The search warrant authorised law enforcement to search for and seize items, including documents, they believed constituted evidence of the offence of manslaughter,’ reads a statement from his lawyer Edward Chernoff.

Conrad tried to revive Michael before he died last month, and has already spoken twice to police.

‘The coroner wants to clear up the cause of death; we share that goal,’ adds Edward.

‘Based on Dr Murray’s minute-by-minute and item-by-item description of Michael Jackson’s last days, he should not be a target of criminal charges. Dr Murray is frustrated by negative and often erroneous media reports.’

DEA spokeswoman Violet Szeleczky adds: ‘What this is, is the Los Angeles police department have an investigation and they came to the Drug Enforcement Agency, and they asked us to help them effect a state search warrant here.'

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