Day Jackson died, storage items moved Doctor's staffers took files, boxes from Houston unit, rental agent says

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Day Jackson died, storage items moved Doctor's staffers took files, boxes from Houston unit, rental agent says

By TODD ACKERMAN HOUSTON CHRONICLE

Sat 07/25/2009 Houston Chronicle, Section B, Page 3, 3 STAR R.O. Edition

Staffers for the Houston doctor now considered a suspect in Michael Jackson's death retrieved items from his rented storage unit the day the pop entertainer died, according to the woman who runs the facility.

Sue Lyon, general manager of West 18th Street Self Storage, said two women from Dr. Conrad Murray's clinic who have previously picked up belongings from his 10-by-15 foot locker arrived June 25 at 11:22 a.m. and left a half-hour later with files and a few boxes.
"I hadn't thought anything of it until this week," said Lyon. "They were very casual about it. I asked them if they were moving out, and they said, no, they were just moving some things. They're nice women."

Lyon said she has no idea what they retrieved.

Lyon's business was the scene of a second raid Wednesday executed by federal drug agents and Los Angeles and Houston police investigators and involving Murray. Earlier in the day, they seized items from his Acres Homes clinic, after a Harris County state district judge approved a warrant allowing them to search for "items constituting evidence of the offense of manslaughter that tend to show that Murray committed the said criminal offense."

Previously, investigators had said Murray was a witness, not a suspect.
Murray, a Las Vegas cardiologist who opened the Houston practice in 2006, was hired to accompany Jackson on a planned series of concerts in London. He told police he discovered the singer unconscious and with a faint pulse in his rented Bel-Air mansion June 25. Unable to revive him, Murray called 911, and Jackson was pronounced dead later at UCLA Medical Center.

The 911 call was placed at 12:21 PDT, about three hours after the women removed items from the storage unit.

The coroner's autopsy report is due next week.

Items seized from the storage unit Wednesday included tax records, CDs, a state controlled substance registration, an expired medical board certificate, computer hard drives, e-mail correspondence and assorted clinic and insurance documents and charts.
Investigators are trying to arrange an interview with Murray, but a spokeswoman for the doctor's lawyer said Friday no meeting has been scheduled yet. Police previously interviewed Murray at UCLA after Jackson's death and again two days later.

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