Tuesday, September 10, 2002

More on Noelle.



Gov. Jeb Bush's 25-year-old daughter was found with cocaine at an Orlando drug-rehabilitation center, police reported on Tuesday.

Bush was not arrested because police could not obtain sworn statements signed by the center's staff. A worker who found the suspected cocaine on Noelle Bush tore up a
sworn statement she had began writing at the suggestion of one of her bosses, police said.


Sgt. Orlando Rolon, a police spokesman, said the investigation by the department's drug-enforcement bureau is continuing.

Officers were dispatched to the drug-treatment center after a resident there reported that "the governor's daughter was caught, by treatment center staff, with drugs,”
according to the police report.

Police were called to the Center for Drug Free Living at about 8:45 p.m. Monday where workers gave them substance that later tested positive for cocaine, Rolon said.

Center staffers said they talked with Bush after receiving several complaints from residents about her, the report stated. Employee Julia Elias searched Noelle Bush and
“found a small white rock-like like substance in Bush's shoe.” Elias ripped a sworn statement that officers later collected as evidence.