ANNA NICOLE DEATH INVESTIGATION
October 12, 2007
Search warrants were issued Oct. 12 in the death of Anna Nicole Smith, who died of an apparent accidental drug overdose in February.
California Attorney General Jerry Brown declined to say what charges could be filed but said the probe involved the "prescribing and dispensing practices of several California licensed doctors and pharmacies."
Search warrants were served, but no arrests were made, Brown said at a press conference Friday.
Brown said he launched the investigation on March 30 after learned that the drugs involved in Smith's Feb. 8 death were prescribed by California physicians and came from California pharmacies.
California Department of Justice investigators began serving search
warrants Friday morning in the investigation.
Several people close to the model have fallen under suspicion since her death, including her psychiatrist Dr. Khristine Eroshevich -- "Dr. Khris" to her friends -- whose Studio City home was raided Friday.
An attorney for another physician, Dr. Sandeep Kapoor, confirmed the doctor's home and offices were among those raided. Kapoor prescribed methadone to Smith shortly before she died.
The Medical Board of California said in April it was investigating Eroshevich, who, according to documents, authorized all 11 prescription medications found in Smith's hotel room the day she died.
Eroshevich had traveled with Smith to Florida, where the model died.
More than 600 pills, including 450 muscle relaxants, were missing from prescriptions that were no more than five weeks old, according to the documents, which were obtained by The Associated Press through a public records request.
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