CALIFORNIA BRIEFING

By Harriet Ryan

July 30, 2009 12 AM PT

Police searching the Las Vegas home and office of Michael Jackson’s personal physician seized a compact disc labeled with a pseudonym used by the pop star, a source familiar with the search said Wednesday.

The disc marked “Omar Arnold” contained what appeared to be records of an electrocardiogram Dr. Conrad Murray performed on Jackson while the singer was living in Las Vegas, the source said. Omar Arnold was an alias Jackson had long used in connection with his healthcare.

In search warrants signed by a Las Vegas judge, investigators said they were looking for medical files, billing records, prescriptions and other items relating to Jackson or 19 possible pseudonyms.

LAPD detectives and Drug Enforcement Administration agents also copied four computer hard drives in Murray’s cardiology office and collected phone message pads, the source said.

-- Harriet Ryan

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Harriet Ryan

Harriet Ryan is an investigative reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Since joining the paper in 2008, she has written about high-profile people, including Phil Spector, Michael Jackson and Tom Girardi, and institutions, including USC, the State Bar of California, the Catholic Church, the Kabbalah Centre and Purdue Pharma, the manufacturer of OxyContin. Ryan won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting with colleagues Matt Hamilton and Paul Pringle in 2019. She and Hamilton won the Collier Prize for State Government Accountability in 2023. She previously worked at Court TV and the Asbury Park Press. She is a graduate of Columbia University.

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