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When police walked into the apartment, they saw five pill bottles on the kitchen table.

In the dining room, 21 bottles sat on a microwave cart. In the master bedroom, five pill bottles were in a nightstand drawer, and on the stand was a plastic tray with white powder, later found to be cocaine.

The cache of drugs that troopers found in Angelynna Young's apartment six days after the Grant County School bus she was driving crashed into a utility pole didn't end there, court records show.

Ten more bottles of prescription drugs were found in a desk, in a box under the bed and in an old purse.

But what's even more troubling to parents is that police say many of the drugs were found in Young's body when she was tested after the crash.

"It's so sad, and I'm not surprised," said Stacey Clise, whose 14-year-old son Jake was one of two students severely injured in the crash. "I'm angry that she wasn't drug-tested sooner, so maybe this wouldn't have happened. How many other times had she been on drugs while driving?"

Parents had complained to the school for years about Young's driving before the crash, Becky Clise, Jake's stepmother, said.

Both women are part of lawsuits filed against the district, Young and school officials.

Young was driving to Grant County Middle School about 8 a.m. Jan. 17 when she ran off the side of the road, overcorrected and struck a utility pole, police said. All 17 students on board were hurt, with 15 suffering minor injures.

Jake spent 11 days at University of Kentucky Hospital, where doctors inserted four titanium plates in his head. Cody Shively, 12, has been in critical condition at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center since the crash.

Immediately after the wreck, Young was taken to St. Elizabeth Medical Center in Edgewood, where tests of her urine showed cocaine, marijuana, the prescription painkiller Darvocet, Valium and Fioricet, a prescription headache medicine, according to an affidavit.

Using the test results, detectives got a search warrant for Young's Williamstown apartment, where they found 41 prescription drug bottles prescribed by 13 different doctors, records show.

All five bottles of prescription painkillers on the kitchen table, including codeine, Endocet and diazepam, were empty, records say.

But other bottles in the dining room and bedroom were full and partly full. They included antidepressants, painkillers, antibiotics, cold medicines and Viagra.

When police searched the nightstand, they found a clear plastic tray with the white powder, an empty medicine bottle lined with white powder and a small plastic straw, records show.

Police arrested Young Jan. 25, two days after they found the drugs in her apartment. Since then, she's been held in the Grant County jail.

A grand jury handed down a 25-count indictment against Young. She's charged with two counts of first-degree assault and 15 counts of wanton endangerment.

Another charge accuses Young of getting a prescription for Endocet (a combination of acetominophen and oxycodone) by fraud, deceit or withholding information from a doctor at Summit Medical Group.

She also faces seven drug charges including two counts of cocaine possession, three counts of marijuana possession, possession of hydrocodone and possession of drug paraphernalia.

After the indictment, Grant Circuit Judge Stephen Bates doubled Young's bail to $50,000. Young could serve 50 years in prison. She's to appear in court Feb. 28.

Commonwealth's Attorney James Crawford would not say whether Young was under the influence of drugs when the bus crashed. The indictment states she was charged with wanton endangerment and assault because she showed "extreme indifference to the value of human life, and wantonly engaged in conduct which created a grave risk of death to another person and thereby caused serious physical injury to a child."

Scott Boothe, 15, who rode Young's bus for two years before the crash, said he had seen her typing text messages on her phone.

Scott said Thursday that he wasn't surprised to learn that drugs were found in Young's system.

"That's bad for her, I guess," he said. "But I just saw it coming."

Scott said that for the last few weeks, the children have had a new bus driver, one that's worked out "OK."

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