An Orange and an Osceola County pain clinic were raided by state and local agents on Thursday.

Investigators told WFTV that Dr. Richard Hays may have prescribed 800,000 oxycodone pills in the past two years. That number compares with just 300,000 pills prescribed by all of the doctors in California last year.

Statistics show that about seven Floridians die from drug overdoses every day.

After an investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation that spanned the past six months, state agents conducted the raids at his two offices.

"You know it's sad, but we still have doctors that are over prescribing these powerful pain medicines without medical necessity. That's what we suspect. We know that’s what Dr. Hays has been doing for quite some time," said Tom Foy of the FDLE.

State agents raided the Miracle Health Center on Silver Star Road in Pine Hills Thursday morning. They detained patients and hauled away boxes of evidence.

At the same time, other agents were serving a search warrant at Hays' other clinic in Kissimmee.

The investigation started when a confidential informant told state agents that Hays groped her during a visit, according to detectives.

Agents told WFTV that Hays is one of the biggest prescribers of pain pills in Central Florida, and in the past two years, they said he's doled out over 800,000 pills. 

"These places are bringing in well over $1 million easy in a year," Foy said.

Hays was not arrested, but the Department of Health suspended his license to operate. 

Agents said charges are coming and they could include drug trafficking and racketeering.

Wayne Washington was an intern at the office. Washington said he has only been there a week, but he never noticed that anything was wrong.

"I just came in hoping to do my job and earn my hours, and the next thing you know, I have a gun in my face," Washington said.

Florida's new drug database is more for catching pill mills and doctor shopping, rather than doctors who over prescribe medication.

Agents said as of November 2, which is less than a month after the database went online, more than 18 million patient records were uploaded to the archive.

Medical professionals have already double-checked the prescriptions received by more than 43,000 patients, investigators said.