Indiana officers buy homeless man bus ticket home

BOONVILLE, Ind. - Three southern Indiana police officers who bought a homeless man a bus ticket home say "it was the right thing to do" after the man told them he was trying to get home.

Warrick County Sheriff deputies Jim Altmeyer and Adam Silva and State Master Trooper John Puskas bought the bus ticket for 49-year-old Jeff Stanley after he told them he had no money but wanted to get home to Virginia.

Puskas tells the Evansville Courier & Press he and the other officers pooled their money for the ticket and view it as a fulfillment of their pledge to protect and serve.

Stanley's father, 77-year-old Wendell Stanley of the Richmond, Virginia, area, says it's been two years since he's seen his son, who was expected to arrive home Thursday.