Noelle Bush case on 'inactive' status
Can be reopened 'if new investigative leads' surface
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ORLANDO, Florida (CNN) -- The Orlando Police Department said Tuesday it is putting its drug investigation of Noelle Bush, the daughter of Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, on "inactive" status.
The decision comes a day after a state court judge ruled that staff members at the drug treatment center where Bush is being treated do not have to cooperate with the investigation. (Full story)
Prosecutors had issued subpoenas for four staffers at the Center for Drug-Free Living after police received a report from another patient on September 9 that Bush, 25, had been found with cocaine in her shoe.
Workers at the center refused to cooperate on orders from a supervisor.
Circuit Judge Belvin Perry ruled on behalf of the center staff, saying if the drug treatment counselors were forced to give testimony, then "all patients who suffer relapses could be hauled out of treatment programs and into criminal courts on the whim of a state prosecutor or police officers."
Orlando police said putting the Bush case on inactive status means "there are no other investigative leads that would require the investigation to continue."
But the statement adds, "It also means that an investigation under this status can be reopened if new investigative leads are discovered."
Bush was put into a court-ordered rehabilitation program in February after she was arrested at a pharmacy drive-through window for allegedly trying to buy the anti-anxiety drug Xanax with a fraudulent prescription.
