Federal Authorities Conducting More Searches At Paisley Park
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- More than a dozen cars led by investigators entered Paisley Park Tuesday evening, as investigators executed a search related to the investigation of Prince's death.
The vehicles entered the property at around 4:50 p.m. and were led by the Carver County Sheriff's Department, though most were unmarked. The sheriff's department said detectives are "revisiting the scene at Paisley Park as a component of a complete investigation." No other information was immediately available.
As of 10 p.m., law enforcement was continuing the search on the property, though some cars trickled out throughout the evening.
Inside the gates of Paisley Park, officials dressed in vests and jackets, waiting several minutes in the parking lot for someone to let them in.
Last week, law enforcement sources told CBS News the DEA would be involved in the investigation of Prince's death. Questions still remain about what authorities were looking for in the surprise search.
-----------
On a related note: A lawyer says Prince had agreed to an intervention for painkiller addiction hours before his death.
The Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday that the artist was seen by Dr. Michael Schulenberg the day before he died.
The paper says the doctor performed some tests and went to Paisley Park to drop of those results. When he arrived on April 21, however, investigators were already on the scene and Prince was dead.
In it, the doctor says he saw Prince the day before he died, and Schulenberg says he was at Paisley Park to deliver test results on the morning Prince was found dead.
In the search warrant, Schulenberg says he saw Prince the day before he died, and that he was at Paisley Park to deliver test results on the morning Prince was found dead. The warrant does not clarify if Schulenberg was one of the people who found Prince dead at his home on April 21 or whether Schulenberg arrived when investigators were already at the scene.
The warrant also says Schulenberg also saw Prince two weeks before his death. He told investigators he had prescribed medication to Prince to be filled at Walgreens. It's unclear from the warrant if Prince filled the prescription, and it doesn't make mention of what type of medication or treatment Prince was seeking.
According to the Los Angeles Times, a detective filed the search warrant on April 27 and carried it out last Thursday.
Schulenberg is no longer employed at North Memorial Clinic in Minnetonka.
In late April, a judge approved the Carver County sheriff's request to seal the search warrant and any accompanying documents surrounding investigations into Prince's death.
That means we won't know exactly what law enforcement were looking for when they searched Paisley Park shortly after Prince was found dead.
Numerous reports suggest law enforcement did find prescription pain pills in their search.
Prince was found unresponsive in an elevator at his Paisley Park studio complex on Thursday, April 21. He was declared dead shortly thereafter. He was 57.
