Federal agents raided two medical clinics and a home connected to a Hixson man arrested in December for keeping more than 60 animals in a Dunlap , Tenn., house, an agent with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency confirmed Friday.
DEA agents spent half the morning at Hormone Replacement Specialists at 5550 Highway 153 and neighboring Holistic Health & Primary Care on Friday, said Brad Byerley, resident agent in charge of the DEA’s Chattanooga office.
“It’s an ongoing federal investigation so I can’t elaborate any more than saying we were there,” he added.
Geoffrey Peterson is charged with animal cruelty in Sequatchie County, Tenn.State records show that 54-year-old Geoffrey Deane Peterson works at Holistic Health & Primary Care. And the hormone replacement clinic identifies Peterson as “Dr. Deane Peterson” on its website; however, Peterson is a family nurse practitioner, not a doctor.
But that didn’t stop Peterson from issuing 373 prescriptions for Oxycontin and 105 prescriptions for morphine during 2012, according to a database developed by ProPublica, a public interest journalism group. Those numbers include prescription refills.