Feds Raid Offices of Michael Jackson's Doctor

Several dozen DEA agents, police officers carry out search warrant at Houston HQ of star's personal physician

Dr. Conrad Murray may not be a formal suspect in the possibly criminal investigation into Michael Jackson's death, but that doesn't mean authorities aren't very interested in the prescribing practices of the late star's personal physician.

So much so, in fact, that several dozen Drug Enforcement Administration agents, along with local uniformed police officers, turned up at the Houston offices of the apparently unsuspecting doctor to carry out a search warrant this morning.

"This is unexpected to us," Murray's lawyer, Ed Chernoff, told E! News of the search.

Makes you wonder how the DEA would handle an actual suspect.

According to Houston's local ABC affiliate, KTRK, the agents arrived en masse at roughly 10:20 a.m. this morning to the Armstrong Medical Clinic, where Murray's offices are located. Two uniformed Houston police officers have since been stationed outside the clinic to keep onlookers out of the building.

While the search warrant, issued by the Los Angeles Police Department, has been sealed, authorities told the news station that the warrant was issued based on the preliminary results of the second autopsy on Jackson, which E! News confirmed was "consistent" with the county coroner's findings that the powerful prescription drug Propofol—a don't try it at home medication if ever there was one—was present in potentially lethal amounts in Jackson's system.

The controversial Murray, who is reportedly in Las Vegas at the moment, served as Jackson's personal physician and was with the star when he died. He is licensed in California, Nevada and Texas and, according to his lawyer, has been nothing but cooperative with investigators.

Just yesterday, Chernoff released a statement reiterating that Murray was not, and should not, be a suspect, and that investigators recently requested additional medical records from the doctor.

By the looks of things down in Houston, they got them.