The Los Angeles Times is reporting that the road paved with drugs and doctors is leading to Las Vegas.

Investigators from the Los Angeles coroner's office met with Dr. Conrad Murray in Las Vegas. Dr. Murray was one of Jackson's physicians and one of the last people to see him alive. He reportedly gave Jackson CPR when he collapsed. Murray is currently a resident of Las Vegas.

In addition, it's been widely reported that heavy-duty drugs found in Jackson's home have been traced to a Las Vegas hospital. One particular drug is specifically used as anesthesia during surgical procedures. The investigators from the L.A. coroner's office are very eager to determine how this sort of powerful drug meant solely for hospital use ended up in the private L.A. home of Jackson. Investigators from the L.A. police department's robbery and homicide division questioned employees and doctors of the Las Vegas hospital in question. The Drug Enforcement Agency is also reportedly involved in the investigation.

L.A. and federal officials have also descended on Houston, Texas as a part of the far-reaching probe into Jackson's death from cardiac arrest on June 25. Two search warrants were issued in Harris County District Court stating that investigators wanted permission to search for "items constituting evidence of the offense of manslaughter that tend to show that Dr. Conrad Murray committed the said criminal offense." Police searched Dr. Murray's Houston office and also a storage shed rented under his name.

Dr. Murray operated a medical clinic in Las Vegas before coming on staff as Michael Jackson's attending physician. He has insisted that he did not administer any drugs to Jackson that would have caused his death, however he is being named as a suspect in what is now being described as a manslaughter case.

Jackson was actively rehearing and preparing for his widely anticipated "This Is It" show in the U.K. which was to kick off on July 10. He leaves behind three children, eight brothers and sisters, and his parents.

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