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COOKEVILLE — A former Tennessee Tech football player has been charged with possession of controlled substances, including large amounts of injectable steroids, police revealed yesterday.
Nathan Brent Bush, 21, was arrested March 5 after Cookeville Police officers searched his W. Stevens Street residence, but the case was put on hold due to a continuing undercover investigation, according to Cookeville Police Major Nathan Honeycutt and Detective Sgt. Chase Mathis.
Now Bush is scheduled for a preliminary hearing in General Sessions Court on July 3. He is charged with possessing drugs “with a high potential for abuse with intent to manufacture, deliver or sell” the substances, says a warrant taken by Officer Jamey McCurry.
Contacted by the Herald-Citizen yesterday, TTU officials said Bush is no longer a member of the football team and said all players are tested for drugs and that no TTU student athlete has tested positive for performance enhancing drugs during the current school year.
The case against Nathan Brent Bush began for police earlier this year when they received a tip alleging that “marijuana was being sold by a male named ‘Nathan’ from a West Stevens St. apartment,” says a report by Detective Sgt. Chase Mathis.
In February, 19 members of the Community Nuisance Eradication Team conducted an investigation at the residence of Nathan Bush, Detective Sgt. Mathis said.
That investigation stretched into March, and a report by Officer Jamey McCurry says on March 5 officers obtained Bush’s consent to search the place and says they found eight vials of testosterone, four bottles of HGH, one Extreme Peptide, one bottle Decagen, one Bacteriostatic water bottle, two vials of Epinephrine, 28 square pills called Tamo, 316 blue and white capsules, and two packs of Restandel Testocap.
Detective Sgt. Mathis said Bush admitted he had been smoking marijuana and said the officers found several “Mason-type jars containing marijuana residue.”
“A further search of the apartment revealed several vials of injectable steroids, labeled Testosterone & HGH, and just under 400 pills,” the Mathis report says. “The pills have since been identified as Oxadrolone, a schedule III anabolic steroid.”
In the past few months, police have conducted further investigation into the case, but as of yesterday, no one but Nathan Bush had been arrested.
Bush posted his $5,000 bond and was released from jail the same day he was arrested. Now he awaits a preliminary hearing set for July 3.
The complete statement issued yesterday by TTU Athletic Director Mark Wilson and head football Coach Watson Brown is as follows:
“Nathan Bush has been dismissed from the Tennessee Tech football team.
“TTU Athletics uses an aggressive and random year-round drug testing program that is separate and distinct from the NCAA drug testing program to which all athletes are subject. No TTU student-athlete has tested positive for performance enhancing drugs during the current school year.
“All drug screening is handled with the confidentiality of the student-athlete in mind.
TTU has a progressive disciplinary policy in place for students who test positive for banned substances.”
In addition to Detective Sgt. Chase Mathis, other officers who worked the case included Jamey McCurry, Josh Ward, Brandon Tayes, Bob Lynch, and Detective Sgt. Tammy Goolsby.
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Nathan Brent Bush, 21, was arrested March 5 after Cookeville Police officers searched his W. Stevens Street residence, but the case was put on hold due to a continuing undercover investigation, according to Cookeville Police Major Nathan Honeycutt and Detective Sgt. Chase Mathis.
Now Bush is scheduled for a preliminary hearing in General Sessions Court on July 3. He is charged with possessing drugs “with a high potential for abuse with intent to manufacture, deliver or sell” the substances, says a warrant taken by Officer Jamey McCurry.
Contacted by the Herald-Citizen yesterday, TTU officials said Bush is no longer a member of the football team and said all players are tested for drugs and that no TTU student athlete has tested positive for performance enhancing drugs during the current school year.
The case against Nathan Brent Bush began for police earlier this year when they received a tip alleging that “marijuana was being sold by a male named ‘Nathan’ from a West Stevens St. apartment,” says a report by Detective Sgt. Chase Mathis.
In February, 19 members of the Community Nuisance Eradication Team conducted an investigation at the residence of Nathan Bush, Detective Sgt. Mathis said.
That investigation stretched into March, and a report by Officer Jamey McCurry says on March 5 officers obtained Bush’s consent to search the place and says they found eight vials of testosterone, four bottles of HGH, one Extreme Peptide, one bottle Decagen, one Bacteriostatic water bottle, two vials of Epinephrine, 28 square pills called Tamo, 316 blue and white capsules, and two packs of Restandel Testocap.
Detective Sgt. Mathis said Bush admitted he had been smoking marijuana and said the officers found several “Mason-type jars containing marijuana residue.”
“A further search of the apartment revealed several vials of injectable steroids, labeled Testosterone & HGH, and just under 400 pills,” the Mathis report says. “The pills have since been identified as Oxadrolone, a schedule III anabolic steroid.”
In the past few months, police have conducted further investigation into the case, but as of yesterday, no one but Nathan Bush had been arrested.
Bush posted his $5,000 bond and was released from jail the same day he was arrested. Now he awaits a preliminary hearing set for July 3.
The complete statement issued yesterday by TTU Athletic Director Mark Wilson and head football Coach Watson Brown is as follows:
“Nathan Bush has been dismissed from the Tennessee Tech football team.
“TTU Athletics uses an aggressive and random year-round drug testing program that is separate and distinct from the NCAA drug testing program to which all athletes are subject. No TTU student-athlete has tested positive for performance enhancing drugs during the current school year.
“All drug screening is handled with the confidentiality of the student-athlete in mind.
TTU has a progressive disciplinary policy in place for students who test positive for banned substances.”
In addition to Detective Sgt. Chase Mathis, other officers who worked the case included Jamey McCurry, Josh Ward, Brandon Tayes, Bob Lynch, and Detective Sgt. Tammy Goolsby.
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