LEBANON, Ind. (AP) _ A central Indiana sheriff is using a state grant to enlist other law enforcement agencies in patrolling alternate routes for traffic that normally uses Interstate 65.
Boone County Sheriff Mike Nielsen says approximately $17,000 from the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute to pay for overtime for officers from local police departments to help with patrols.
Since a bridge on northbound I-65 was closed about a month ago, traffic normally carried by the freeway has spilled over not only to the official detour route of U.S. 52, but to county roads as well.
Nielsen says that some action needed to be taken to deal with the extra traffic.
