Prince's half-sisters Sharon Nelson and Norrine Nelson arrive at Paisley Park recording studio after attending a hearing on the estate of Prince Rogers Nelson on May 2. (Photo : Getty Images / Adam Bettcher )
The pre-med student Andrew Kornfeld who found Prince dead in an elevator and reported to 911 could face charges for possessing a prescription drug that can help kick opiate addiction. He is the son of California addiction specialist, Dr. Howard Kornfeld who was hired to treat the singer.
The young Kornfeld is a consultant of his father's outpatient addiction clinic, Recovery Walls. He was sent by his father to the singer's Paisley Park estate to tell Prince about addiction to prescription painkillers. He was carrying a starter dose of Suboxone, which contains buprenorphine that is used to treat opiate addiction, his family's lawyer William J. Mauzy said during a news conference outside his office in Minneapolis on May 4.
Suboxone, which is considered a controlled substance in Minnesota, was taken into possession by the Carver Country Sheriff's office. The student should be granted "statutory immunity" for possessing the drug with no prescription under the state's Good Samaritan Law.
By calling 911, Kornfeld did the right thing but the law would not protect him from criminal charges because he had the drugs before the singer died. Possessing Schedule II controlled substances like the Suboxone without prescription is punishable by a $10,000 fine and five years in prison.
The young man did not intend to administer the drugs to Prince, Mauzy said in the press conference. He was just transporting it to a doctor who was set to meet Prince on April 21, which was also the day the singer died, People reported.
Meanwhile, many people have come out to claim they are the direct family of the late singer. The company which tracks down in finding missing and long-lost beneficiaries of Prince's estate has its phone lines flooded with calls.
The 57-year-old singer did not leave a will for the division of his $300 million estate. John Hilbert and Shar Mansukhani, the agency founders are starting to receive calls from alleged "love children," cons and jailbirds, according to The Daily Beast.
Prince's only full biological sibling, Tyka Nelson asked the court to appoint an administrator to oversee her brother's estate. On May 2, she was with a pair of lawyers and did not mingle with her brother's half siblings. A week earlier, she and the half siblings reportedly left Carver County court separately with their respective bodyguards.
Prince was supposed to get a drug treatment in the final moments of his life, said the video below.
