Dr. Murray Admits Injecting Jackson With Propofol

While Dr. Conrad Murray’s lawyer insists his client had nothing to do with the Propofol that is believed to have killed Michael Jackson, law enforcement officials have revealed that they have a very good reason to suspect the physician’s involvment in the pop star’s June 25 death.

Their reasoning? Dr. Murray told the police he did.

According to unnamed sources within the LAPD, two days after Jackson’s death, Murray told detectives he was the one who had administered the Propofol to the King of Pop just hours before he suffered a fatal cardiac arrest.

Dr. Murray alleges that he “found” Jackson without a pulse in his bedroom on the morning of June 25 a few hours after administering the powerful anesthesia drug to the singer through an IV drip; however, the LAPD have a different theory.

The police believe that Dr. Murray “wasn’t paying attention” when Jackson’s heart stopped beating, and have even hypothesised that the doctor may have “fallen asleep” during the time the drug was administered, and woke to find the singer already dead from heart failure.

Other doctors in the medical community have said that the use of Propofol – or even drugs of a similar capacity – in the home is “reckless.” For the drug to be used safely, they said, the patient must be monitored by an EKG, which would then sound an alarm when the patient’s pulse drops to dangerous levels.

There was no EKG found in the raid on Michael Jackson’s house.

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LAPD Search Home & Office of Jackson’s Doctor, Manslaughter Charges Pending

Dr. Conrad Murray is now likely to be convicted in the death of Michael Jackson, as Dea agents, LAPD and Las Vegas police descend on his Las Vegas home and office, armed with more search warrants.

A law enforcement official told FOXNews.com that the gated community of Jackson’s personal physician, and his office Global Cardiovascular Associates, were searched early Tuesday morning in the hopes of finding the evidence needed to formally charge him with manslaughter.

The day before, another law enforcement official told the news network that investigators in the case believed Murray was the one who had given Jackson the fatal dose of Propofol, just hours before his cardiac arrest on June 25. It is this dose the powerful sedative that is thought to have been the primary cause of death, which means that Murray, being the doctor who prescribed and administered it, would be liable for a manslaughter charge.

Murray’s lawyer, however, has said that the doctor “didn’t prescribe or administer anything that should have killed Michael Jackson.” When asked about the LAPD’s anonymous statements to the contrary, lawyer Edward Chernoff added: “We will not be commenting on rumours, innuendo or unnamed sources.”

However, while Chernoff remains adamant that his client isn’t any more of a suspect in the death of Michael Jackson than any of the doctors the late singer had in his service over the years, the lawyer did confirm that there had been multiple searches carried out by both police and agents alike at the doctor’s home and office.

“The search warrant authorized investigators to look for medical records relating to Michael Jackson and all of his reported aliases,” Chernoff’s statement read. “Dr. Murray was present during the search of his home and assisted the officers. Investigators left Dr. Murray’s home around 12 noon, seizing cell phones and a computer hard drive.”

Murray’s office in Houston was searched prior to his home in Las Vegas, with the search warrant stating that authorities on the scene were to look for “property or items constituting evidence of the offense of manslaughter that tend to show that Dr. Conrad Murray committed the said criminal offense.”

Both warrants were said to have been granted based on the preliminary toxicology reports, which at this stage have pinpointed Propofol as a contributing factor in Jackson’s death.

While the official toxicology findings are still days – maybe weeks – away, investigators are “working under the theory” that the sedative caused Jackson’s heart to stop, a source revealed. At this stage, law enforcement officials have been able to determine that the King of Pop had been using the powerful drug – hospital grade, and never intended for home use – for about two years. Since Dr. Murray only cam into Jackson’s service in May of this year, investigators are busily trying to find out how many other doctors illegally prescribed and administered the drug to the singer.

From the court documents, which label Dr. Conrad Murray as the prime suspect in the manslaughter investigation, Jackson “relied on Propofol like an alarm clock,” and would have the drug administered in an IV drip by a physician when he went to sleep. The IV drip would be stopped when it was time for the singer to wake up.

On the day of Jackson’s death, Dr. Murray was staying in singer’s Los Angeles mansion and “happened to find” an unconscious Jackson in his bedroom. Chernoff, Murray’s lawyer, said the doctor “tried to revive” the pop star by “compressing his chest” with one hand while supporting his back with the other.

His revival attempts were in vain, and Jackson died of a drug-assisted cardiac arrest on June 25.

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LAPD Treating Jackson’s Death as Homicide

La Toya Jackson’s belief that her younger brother was murdered may be right on the money, with sources at the LAPD admitting that they were now treating the King of Pop’s death as a homicide – and the prime suspect is Dr. Conrad Murray.

While initial reports from the Los Angeles Police Department suggested that Murray wasn’t a suspect, sources have revealed that evidence collected at the scene of Jackson’s June 25 death suggest that the anesthesia Propofol was the “primary cause” of his fatal cardiac arrest, a drug which was administered by Dr. Murray.

Sources added that there was “plenty of powerful evidence” linking Dr. Murray to the drug, including vials of Propofol, an IV stand and an oxygen tank, which were all found at Jackson’s house.

At this stage, Dr. Murray’s lawyer has refused to either confirm or deny the reports that his client is under official investigation, and while the case against the doctor has not been formally presented to the D.A., sources within the LAPD say that its only a matter of time.

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Jackson Was a Drug Addict, Says Former Employee

The autopsy results haven’t been finalised yet, but it’s looking more and more like Michael Jackson’s drug dependency played a large part in the June 25 cardiac arrest that claimed his life.

According to a number of former employees, Jackson took more than 10 Xanax pills per night, and was often “asking his employees to get the prescription sleep medicine under their names.”

The report of his over-use of Xanax is a true one, obtained by the media from the 2004 Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department documents that were used as part of the King of Pop’s 2005 child molestation trial.

In the documents, one staff member of Jackson’s – a security guard – expressed his concern to another staffer about Jackson’s 10-pills a night Xanax addiction.

The documents state that the second staff member wasn’t worried, as: “Jackson was doing better because he was down from 30 to 40 Xanax pills a night.”

Many of Jackson’s staff members at the time admitted to picking up prescriptions in theirs and other people’s names on instruction by the popstar. One staffer added that Jackson often appeared “out of it and sedated.”

The guard who provided the majority of the information, according to the documents, quit after Jackson “fell on his face” in a hotel room and hurt himself. He said he was never comfortable getting prescriptions for the singer under false names and from different states.

From those same court documents, Michael Laperruque – part of Jackson’s security detail and a former L.A. County Sheriff’s deputy – revealed that the singer’s doctors were trying to him off Demerol, and were “upset with Jackson because he had been self-injecting.”

At this stage, dectectives are thoroughly investigating the Thriller singer’s history of narcotic painkiller addiction and are in the process of speaking with a number of Jackson’s former doctors and medical staff. Police are not ruling out foul play as yet, but are anticipating the toxicology reports to hold the information they’re looking for.

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General Anaesthetic Found at Jackson’s Home

Investigators have discovered the powerful drug Propofol, most commonly used as a general anaesthetic, at Michael Jackson’s Los Angeles home, sources have revealed to celebrity website TMZ.com.

Coincidentally, Propofol – also known as Diprivan – is the same drug that Jackson himself petitioned his former nurse Cherilyn Lee for whilst she was under his employ. A member of the Jackson entourage also contacted Lee four days before the King of Pop’s shock death, asking for the drug once more.

The drug is described as an “extremely dangerous and potent” substance that is only available to medical personnel.

“There is no conceivable way this drug can be properly prescribed for home use,” the source said.

So, how did Jackson get his hands on a drug meant for hospital use only? That’s the million dollar question the investigators looking into his death would like answered.

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