Daily Times (Primos, PA)

Bon Jovi’s daughter ODS on heroin, is charged

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★ CLINTON, N. Y. — Jon Bon Jovi’s 19- year- old daughter was hospitaliz­ed and facing drug charges Wednesday after overdosing on heroin in a dorm at her college in upstate New York, authoritie­s said.

Stephanie Bongiovi was found unresponsi­ve by an ambulance crew sent to Hamilton College early Wednesday after a report that a female had apparently overdosed in Dunham Hall, the school’s largest dorm.

Town of Kirkland police investigat­or Peter Cania said Bongiovi, of Red Bank, N. J., was recovering at a hospital he declined to name.

Officers sent to the dorm initially found a small amount of heroin and arrested Ian Grant, 21, also of Red Bank and a Hamilton student, according to police reports.

Investigat­ors got a search warrant for the dorm and found heroin, marijuana and drug parapherna­lia, leading to Bongiovi’s arrest. Cania would not say whether the search involved her room.

Police didn’t know whether Bongiovi or Grant have lawyers. Jon Bon Jovi’s representa­tive wasn’t commenting Wednesday.

Bongiovi and Grant were each charged with seventh- degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a misdemeano­r. Bongiovi was also charged with fourth- degree criminal possession of marijuana and criminally using drug parapherna­lia, both misdemeano­rs, and unlawful possession of marijuana, a violation.

Both were issued tickets and ordered to appear in court at a later date.

Bon Jovi, 50, is scheduled to perform at a concert to benefit Hamilton’s scholarshi­ps and arts programs in Times Square on Dec. 5.

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