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WEBVTT RACING. AS FAST AS A FLASH, DRUG AGENTS ARE INSIDE THE OFFICES OF DR. KENDALL HANSEN. >> DEA AFTER DEA AND FBI. BRIAN: DEA, FBI AND THE NORTHERN KENTUCKY DRUG STRIKE FORCE DID NOT SAY WHAT THEY WERE LOOKING FOR OR EVEN WHY THEY WERE THERE. >> THEY WERE OUT IN THE HALLWAY, THERE WERE BACK IN THE BACK WHERE THE PATIENTS WOULD GO. BRIAN: PATIENTS OF DR. HANSEN TELL US THEY’RE TREATED FOR PAIN. >> I HAVE A VERY BAD BACK AND I COME UP HERE EVERY MONTH TO GET MY PAIN MEDICINE. BRIAN: THOSE WE TALKED TO SAID THEY HAD ALL TRIED PAIN MEDICATION INJECTIONS. >> THEY DO ONE THEN THEY DO THE OTHER AND THAT’S IT. BRIAN: DR. HANSEN IS NOT ONLY A WELL-KNOWN DOCTOR, BUT HE’S ALSO KNOWN FOR HIS SUCCESSES IN HORSE RACING, EVEN OWNING KENTUCKY DERBY HORSES. >> YOU COULD GO YOUR WHOLE LIFETIME AND NEVER HAVE ONE IN THE DERBY, SO TO HAVE HIM AND HIS FATHER IN THE DERBY JUST BLOWS ME AWAY, I’M VERY LUCKY. BRIAN: WHILE AGENTS DID NOT SAY WHY THEY WERE HERE, WE’VE LEARNED THERE IS, THIS CIVIL SUIT AGAINST HANSEN AND THERE ARE MORE IN THE WORKS. >> MY UNDERSTANDING THERE’S NO INDICTMENT, NO CHARGE BUT I CAN TELL YOU THIS, IT DOESN’T HAPPEN EVERY DAY THAT THE FEDS SHOW UP WITH A SEARCH WARRANT OF A DOCTOR’S OFFICE. BRIAN: ERIC DETERS SAYS HIS FIRM HAS MORE THAN A DOZEN PEOPLE WHO WERE CHARGED $800 OR MORE PER INJECTION, AND MANY WERE UNNECESSARY. >> AS WELL AS WITHHOLDING THE TREATMENT OF OTHER PAIN MEDICATION UNLESS YOU GET AN EPIDURAL. BRIAN: HANSEN WOULDN’T GO ON CAMERA BUT TOLD ME, QUOTE, WE DO A GOOD JOB. HE SAID THEY ARE VERY PROFESSIONAL AND THAT, QUOTE, WE WELCOME THE SCRUTINY. DR. HANSEN HAS NOT BEEN CHARGED WITH ANYTHING. HE TOLD ME HE IS CONFIDENT WHEN AGENTS SEE HIS RECORDS HE WON’T BE CHARGED. HE SAID THEY WILL BE OPEN TOMORROW.

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Federal agents searched the Crestview Hills offices of a well-known pain doctor Wednesday.Witnesses said Drug Enforcement Administration, FBI and Northern Kentucky Drug Strike Force agents surprised Dr. Kendall Hansen and his staff."There was one nurse who came out crying. Apparently, they busted down the door and scared the living daylights out of her because she was with a patient," said Amber Brumley, a witness.Investigators did not say what they were looking for or why they were searching the offices near Thomas Moore Parkway."We welcome the scrutiny," Hansen said as agents were still going though his offices. "We do a good job."Hansen said he is confident that once investigators get a look at his records, they'll realize he hasn't done anything wrong.Hansen is as well-known for his hobby as he is for his practice.He's owned two Kentucky Derby horses -- Hansen and Fast and Accurate -- in the past few years."You could go your whole lifetime and never have one in the Derby, so to have him (Fast and Accurate) and his father (Hansen) in the Derby just blows me away. I'm very lucky," Hansen told WLWT in May 2017.Even if no criminal charges are filed, there is civil litigation in the works. One lawsuit has been filed and more than a dozen others are on the way, according to Eric Deters, who owns the law firm filing the suits."My understanding is there's no indictment, no charge, but I can tell you this, it doesn't happen every day that the feds show up with a search warrant at a doctor's office," Deters said.Deters claims his clients were given numerous unnecessary pain injections by Hansen."We have one client who had 19 injections, epidurals, over a two-year period, and the type of epidurals he was receiving, he was only supposed to have three in a year," Deters said.Hansen has not been charged or indicted. He said his offices will be open Thursday.