Chiropractor gets records, bank accounts back

Friday, May 1, 1998 | 3:21 a.m.

Detectives are still holding Hansen's trailer, whirlpool bath and one patient file on the orders of the Elko district attorney's office pending further investigation.

Detectives seized the items Jan. 21 in a fraud investigation into Hansen's claim to cure cancer with the bath, which injects the body with ionized oxygen atoms designed to attack cancerous cells.

Hansen filed suit for return of the records after no charges were brought within 60 days. None has been filed to date.

Sheriff Neil Harris said he approached District Judge Mike Memeo, who signed the search warrants authorizing the seizures, and the DA's office weeks ago for authorization to return items and records he believed were not part of the investigation.

He said he was not allowed to do so until a stipulation was signed in Hansen's lawsuit.

"I don't think the real culprit here is the sheriff's department," Hansen told the Elko Daily Free Press. "Somebody is giving them orders. They even inferred they think I should get back all that they took."

"As far as they're concerned, the whole investigation is done with," he said.

Hansen still faces a Nevada Chiropractic Board hearing next month into the 1993 death of one of his patients.