Chattanooga Police Department Crime Suppression Unit investigators Jonatan Watkins, left, and Lydell Blue remove medical records from Dr. Jerome Sherard’s office at Skyview of Chattanooga Pain Management at 340 Holtzclaw Ave. Wednesday. Investigators from the DEA, TBI and Chattanooga Police Department Crime Suppression Unit closed the pain clinic Wednesday, serving a search warrant, interviewing patients and seizing records.
Investigators loaded boxes of medical records from a pain management clinic into a moving truck Wednesday morning after a raid at Skyview of Chattanooga Pain Management.
The raid, at 340 N. Holtzclaw Ave., was the second in two days in Chattanooga. Primary Care & Pain Clinic, at 6236 Airport Drive, was raided Tuesday.
It’s possible investigators will search other clinics, said U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent Brad Byerley.
The raids are part of federal search warrants resulting from an ongoing investigation, Byerley said. Officers with Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, Chattanooga Police Department and Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office assisted.
As of Wednesday afternoon, Jerome Sherard, who is listed as the medical director for the clinic at 340 N. Holtzclaw Ave., had no charges filed against him. But some of his patients were arrested in the clinic’s parking lot after police ran searches for open warrants on unrelated charges.