Are Police Seeking Search Warrant for Tiger's Medical Records?

Celebrity gossip site TMZ.com reported Monday morning that the Florida Highway Patrol is requesting a search warrant to seize the records of Tiger Woods' hospital treatment following his car accident early last Friday morning. In a later post, TMZ.com claimed that the FHP also wants the tapes from surveillance cameras around the Woods property in Windermere, Fla., believing that one of those security cams might show Woods leaving his house and getting into his SUV.

Is it true? I'm not a fan of celebrity gossip, so I have no way to judge TMZ's credibility. I assume they get some things right, and probably get quite a few things wrong. TMZ was the first to report on Sunday that Woods has canceled another meeting with the FHP, which was, of course, true.

However, the FHP is denying TMZ's claims. Florida Highway Patrol spokesman Capt. Mark Welch told the Boston Herald today, when asked about TMZ's reporting on a possible search warrant, "Not true." Capt. Welch further said:

"We're looking at every aspect of the crash to find out its specific cause. ... It's our job to investigate crashes, and that's what we're going to do."

The implication of TMZ's claims is that the FHP wants to know whether Woods' facial lacerations are consistent with a car crash, or consistent with something else - like, say, Elin Woods' fingernails. But as noted, the FHP denies it is seeking a search warrant for the medical records.

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