A Columbus man was arrested last week as part of a months-long investigation into heroin dealing and drug overdoses in Bartholomew County.

The Bartholomew County Joint Narcotics Enforcement Team is reporting that hey arrested 31-year-old Joseph L. Leszcynski,  after seeing him in a vehicle on Central Avenue near 10th Street last Tuesday. Leszcynski was wanted on a warrant on two charges of dealing narcotics and possessing heroin. When police searched him they found heroin in his clothing, says Lt Matt Harris, spokesman for the Columbus police.

Harris says the investigation is tied to a particularly powerful batch of heroin that led to overdose deaths last fall, and also to an investigation into a teen girls’ overdose last week in the Walmart parking lot on State Road 46.

The Bartholomew County Joint Narcotics Enforcement team is an effort by the Columbus police, county deputies and the county prosecutor’s office to target the manufacturing and abuse of dangerous drugs in Columbus and Bartholomew County