Baton Rouge chiropractor caught with nearly 30 lbs of prescription drugs, arrested a year later

BATON ROUGE - A local medical professional was booked into jail Monday, a little more than a year after he was found asleep behind the wheel of his Mercedes with a bag of prescription drugs and two firearms inside.

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According to a report dated July 9, 2018, deputies found 62-year-old Michael Goff asleep in his car in a Walgreens parking lot on Perkins Road. Goff refused medical care from EMS at the time and said he was just "taking a nap."

When deputies went to question Goff, they noticed prescription pill bottles on his floorboard. As one of the deputies walked to the other side of thevehicle, Goff allegedly tried to hide the pill bottles beneath the driver's seat.

When deputies retrieved the bottles that had been sitting in plain sight, they noticed the labels on all three were destroyed. Goff said the bottles contained Hydrocodone and Vyvanse and assured the deputies he had prescriptions for the medication at his home. Deputies also found Adderal capsules in Goff's pockets during a pat-down search.

Goff claimed he had fallen asleep in his car because he works long hours as a chiropractor, and the pills help with his back pain and busy schedule. A search warrant was obtained after Goff refused to give deputies permission to search the rest of his vehicle.

Inside his car, deputies found more than $8,800 cash on his floorboards and inside a backpack, with