New officers to target heroin abuse in (Hancock) county

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Daily Reporter on August 14, 2015 by Caitlin VanOverberghe

GREENFIELD — It wasn’t the kind of thing Edie Horan expected to hear about her son.

Landis Bussell was a good-time guy, eager to please and make new friends. He was always up for a party, to share a few drinks and have a good time.

But drugs? His mother didn’t think so.

But after a few drinks one summer day in 2013, a buddy offered him heroin, a 12-inch line of the drug. Bussell gave in, passed out and never awoke. He was 27.

Stories like Horan’s are cropping up too often in Hancock County, prompting the county’s two largest law enforcement agencies to seek additional funding for detectives who can dedicate their time to drug investigations — to save lives like Bussell’s.