The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation. The Carver County Sheriff's Office and the federal Drug Enforcement Agency are conducting a homicide investigation into the circumstances surrounding his death, focusing on the question of who obtained the fentanyl, a prescription opioid that is 50 to 100 times more powerful than morphine.
According to a search warrant, Schulenberg told investigators he saw Prince on April 7 and April 20, and prescribed medications for Prince to be picked up at a Walgreens pharmacy.
Schulenberg is the same doctor who was at Paisley Park on April 21 (the day of Prince's death) when deputies arrived on scene and the same doctor who admitted to authorities, he prescribed Oxycodone for Prince on April 14, the day before he overdosed while returning from a show in Atlanta, forcing his plane into an emergency landing.
The day before Prince died, his team called an eminent opioid addiction specialist in California seeking urgent help for the singer, an attorney working for the specialist and his son said.
Clayton Tyler, Johnson's attorney, released a statement saying that after reviewing the documents, "we believe that it is clear that Kirk Johnson did not secure nor supply the drugs which caused Prince's death".
The documents unsealed Monday allege Dr. Michael Todd Schulenberg, a family physician who saw the musician twice last April, told authorities he prescribed the opioid painkiller oxycodone to Prince but put it under the name of Prince's bodyguard and close friend, Kirk Johnson, "for Prince's privacy", one affidavit said.
Bottles of opioid painkillers - some prescribed to Prince's former drummer and longtime friend Kirk Johnson - were found in several places in Paisley Park, and many medications were found in vitamin pill bottles and in envelopes, search warrants showed.
Schulenberg's attorney, Amy Conners, says in a statement that Schulenberg didn't prescribe opioids either directly or indirectly to Prince. They found nothing that would confirm the source of the fentanyl that killed him. First responders revived him with two doses of a drug that reverses the effects of an opioid overdose.
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PRINCE DIDN'T HAVE ANY PRESCRIPTIONS: According to the court documents, Prince didn't have a prescription for any of the drugs found at Paisley Park.
An official with knowledge of the investigation told The Associated Press that authorities still haven't interviewed a key associate who was with Prince in his final days, and they haven't asked a grand jury to investigate.
A message left with Schulenberg's attorney wasn't immediately returned.
In addition to the dozens of pills recovered, authorities also found a pamphlet for an addiction recovery center in California, the documents unsealed Monday show.
Authorities also searched Johnson's cellphone records, to see who he was communicating with in the month before Prince died.
A prescription monitoring warrant, issued as part of the investigation, reveals the singer was never prescribed any of the controlled substances that were found at Paisley Park.
The suitcase also contained the lyrics for "U got the Look", which appeared to be in Prince's handwriting. Investigators believe "Peter Bravestrong" could have been an alias name for Prince that he would use when he would travel.
Investigators have said little publicly about the case over the previous year, other than it is active.
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