TEENS ARE GETTING HEROIN FROM INDY, GREENWOOD POLICE BELIEVE

Police believe some teenagers from affluent White River Township and
Greenwood families are using heroin from Indianapolis drug
dealers.The highly addictive and expensive opiate has been readily
available, police said. Three teenagers in Johnson County have overdosed.

One teenager admitted having a $200-a-day heroin addiction, Johnson
County Sheriff Terry McLaughlin said.A $50 dose would be about the
size of an aspirin and can be injected or smoked.Thursday night,
police raided a townhouse apartment west of Southern Plaza Shopping
Center in Indianapolis. Officers found $13,520 and Mexican brown
heroin bundled in small multicolored balloons.The seized drugs were
valued at about $50,000, said Sgt. Jeff McCorkle, a Greenwood police
narcotic investigator.No one was home when police arrived at 7:30
p.m. No arrests had been made by Friday afternoon. Three men lived in
the apartment, neighbors said.