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When police searched the Williamstown, Ky., apartment of former school bus driver Angelynna Young a few days after her vehicle smacked into a utility pole and injured 17 students, they found cocaine, marijuana and dozens of pills from various doctors and pharmacies, according to newly opened court records.

The drugs they found included Percocet, a pain killer; amoxicillin, an antibiotic; diazepam, a sedative and anti-anxiety drug; the cholesterol blocking drug Lipitor, and several others.

That was among testimony a Grant County grand jury heard on Wednesday before issuing a 25-count indictment against Young, the driver of the school bus that crashed in Grant County Jan. 19.

With the indictment, officials unsealed Young's district court records, which two judges had ordered closed from public view during the investigation.

Although Young was indicted on two counts of assault and 15 counts of wanton endangerment tied to the wreck, none of the charges specifies whether investigators concluded if she was under the influence of drugs at the time. Grant Commonwealth Attorney Jim Crawford refused to comment on that point in a brief press conference after the indictments were returned Wednesday.

But in his request for a search warrant four days after the crash, Kentucky State Police Detective Kevin Flick said that tests on blood and urine samples Young gave at the hospital showed she had several drugs in her system at the time.

Young, who was slightly injured in the wreck, was taken to St. Elizabeth Medical Center South in Edgewood, Flick said.

"The toxicology screen ... indicated she had cocaine, marijuana, Darvocet, Valium and fioricet present in her system," Flick said in his affidavit. Darvocet and fioricet are pain killers, and Valium is an anti-anxiety drug.

Although Young apparently had prescriptions for the pills, one of the charges in the indictment cites her for obtaining a controlled substance by fraud.

The crash occurred just after youngsters were picked up at Mount Zion Elementary School in Crittenden for transportation to classes at Grant County Middle School in Dry Ridge. On U.S. 25, just south of Sherman Newtown Road, the bus swerved and dropped off the right side of the road.

Young struggled to regain the blacktop, but the bus ran off the other side of the road and struck a 60-foot utility pole, nearly snapping it in two. The impact shattered the glass windows on the bus and sent children flying across the vehicle's interior.

The most severe charges against Young, first-degree assault, relate to the two most seriously injured children in the crash.

Cody Shively, 12, and Jacob Clise, 14, were both listed in critical condition after the crash.

Jacob was released after 11 days at the University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center to treat severe injuries to his face. Cody remains in Children's Hospital Medical Center.

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