Jackson Doctor's Office Raided

The Houston office of Michael Jackson's cardiologist, Dr. Conrad Murray, was raided Wednesday by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), and TMZ reports Murray's lawyer says the search was because the officials were looking for "evidence of manslaughter."

Eight DEA vehicles were at Murray's offices Wednesday afternoon along with two Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) detectives, members of the Houston Police Department and people from the DEA's Tactical Diversion Team, according to TMZ.

The officers left with a forensic image of a business computer hard drive and 21 documents, TMZ reports.

"We can confirm that a search warrant was executed today on Dr. Murray's offices in Houston, Texas," Murray's lawyer, Ed Chernoff, said in a statement. "We reviewed the warrant and remained on the premises while the search was being executed."

Chernoff's statement goes on to say the warrant gave the officers permission to search for and seize items and documents "they believed constituted evidence of the offense of manslaughter."

Murray is the doctor who found Jackson at his house on June 25 before paramedics arrived on scene. He performed CPR on Jacko before the singer died.

There were reports earlier this month that the LAPD was reportedly treating Jackson's death as a homicide. Officials were reportedly focusing on Murray and the sedative Propofol — better known as Diprivan. The LAPD denied the reports.

Jackson's cause of death has still not been determined and details of both autopsies — by the Los Angeles County coroner's office and an independent one requested by the Jackson family — have not been released.

Nonetheless, E! Online reported both Jackson autopsies found "potentially lethal amounts of propofol in the singer's system" and both autopies found needle marks on his body.

Propofol is a strong anaesthetic that's normally only administered to patients in hospitals. It was discovered in Jackson's home earlier this month.

Federal regulators are now pondering adding the drug to their list of controlled substances.