FBI agents search Bluegrass Pain Consultants clinic in Louisville

Federal agents raided at least one Bluegrass Pain Consultants location in Louisville on Tuesday as the FBI investigates "multiple locations around Louisville."

Special agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration were sorting through boxes inside the Champion Farms Drive building in Worthington. A Louisville Metro Police patrol car was parked next door, in front of the Montessori School of Louisville.

"We are conducting court-authorized law enforcement activity at multiple locations around Louisville as part of an ongoing investigation," FBI spokesman David Habich wrote in an email.

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When asked if all locations being searched are Bluegrass Pain Consultants or if other Louisville-area doctors are involved, Habich said the department is not providing more information at this time.

Requests for comment sent to Louisville Metro police officials, Kentucky State Police officials and the federal DEA were not immediately returned.

A reporter on scene saw federal agents talking to patients — including an elderly woman with a cane and an elderly man who had taken a wheelchair out of his car for his passenger before folding it back up and driving off.

Patient Cheri Swink, 59, said she has been treated for chronic pain at the clinic for about seven years for carpal tunnel, tennis elbow and NMD, or neuromuscular disease.

Swink, a former factory worker, said she didn't understand why police closed the pain clinic Tuesday or when she would be able to reschedule her appointment for an evaluation.

"The doctors are really nice," she said. "They give us our pain medicine. If I don't take it, then, oh, it's bad."

Bluegrass Pain Consultants has locations in Louisville and La Grange, according to its website. The group describes itself as providing treatment options for pain management including consultations and medication.