Dr Michael Todd Schulenberg treated Prince on 7 April and 20 April, and had prescribed “medications and prescriptions” for the musician, according to the warrant, which was filed on Thursday in Hennepin county and obtained by KSTP-TV and the Los Angeles Times. “They will be looking into all the doctors, how he obtained the medications, who prescribed them, how the doctors’ prescribing habits [had been] in the past”. It is unknown what those prescriptions were for.
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Meanwhile, police cars were seen back on Prince’s estate on Tuesday afternoon.
The warrant doesn’t say whether Schulenberg was one of the people who actually found Prince’s body or whether he arrived when investigators were already at the scene. A spokeswoman for the health care system declined to elaborate. A spokesperson for the system couldn’t give any details about why Schulenberg left his job. Several neighbours said the development was new and they didn’t know Schulenberg.
According to the affidavit, Schulenberg arrived at Prince’s home April 21 with the intention of delivering the tests results.
Investigators in Minnesota are revisiting Prince’s Paisley Park estate more than two weeks after the star’s death. The AP reports that last week, a lawyer for California addiction specialist Dr. Howard Kornfeld told the press that Prince’s representatives contacted Kornfeld seeking emergency help a day before the singer was found dead.
The doctor came to Prince’s house on the day of his death, April 21, to drop off test results. Kornfeld couldn’t immediately clear his schedule to fly to Minneosta to meet with Prince, but sent his son, Andrew Kornfeld, who works with him at his Recovery Without Walls treatment center. The law enforcement official who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity said Prince was found unconscious on the plane and that first responders gave him a shot of Narcan, which is used in suspected opioid overdoses.
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Schulenberg’s name doesn’t appear on a list of Minnesota doctors authorized to treat opioid dependency with the buprenorphine, according to a database maintained by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
