Atta boy K-9 Sam and handler Bruce of the Greenville N.C. Police Dept.
K-9 Sam a two year old Belgium Malinois in his first week at work after graduating K-9 school and on his first actual narcotics search, located andindicated on a blunt concealed in the ash tray of an 05 explorer. Before the dog could be rewarded he left the small find (not being satisfied with the misdemeanor)and goes after the felony where he locates and indicates on the odor of a narcotic coming from a natural void in the rear deck area at the lift gate on the explorer. Concealed in the void was nine ounces of powder cocaine. The suspect was quoted as saying (Expletive deleted). Keep those arrests coming Sam and make sure that dog stays greedy Bruce.!!
September
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On the night of Sept. 18, 2005 Lt. Frankie Young of the Davidson County (NC) Sheriff Department and his brand new K-9 Rudi were called to assist in apprehending a jump-and-run suspect. The team tracked the suspect approx. 1.5 miles until a perimeter unit apprehended him. Afterward, the duo was requested to do an evidence search for a weapon, and located a .45 cal. handgun in a ditch. Great job, guys!
September
ATTA BOY k-9 Kota and handler T. Hunter of the Kannapolus P. D.
On their first weekend at work after graduating k-9 school they made two marijuana arrests in separate vehicle stops and latter had a successful track and then in yet another incident responded to a B&E in progress after the suspects were apprehended he used Kota to do an article search where the dog located a firearm that was stolen from the residence. They then went on to locate a hat that was worn
by one of the suspects which later linked him to 13 auto B&Es and 3 residences
October
On 9-11-05 the Iredell County ICE team
stopped a 98 Freightliner on I-40 west. After the stop a consent search was granted and K-9 Kas was deployed into the cab of the tractor. K-9 Kas gave a strong positive indication to a gym bag under the sleeper compartment. Inside the bag was $75,220.00 in US currency.
The currency and the tractor was seized.
September
On 10-13-05 the Iredell County ICE Team stopped a Plyouth mini-van on I-77 south for speeding. While a warning was being issued K-9 Kas was deployed for an exterior search of the vehicle. Kas gave a strong positive indication to the rear of the van. A probable cause search revealed a hidden compartment between the frame under the van. In the compartment was two vacuum sealed bags containing $40,000.00 in US currency.
October
This page was last updated: August 14, 2008
Dave O'Hare
Gwinnett County PD
In late Nov. K9 Roan was called to a scene where thedriver of a Chevy S10 pick up was refusing consent to have his truck searched.
An open air sniff was conducted and Roan showed a change with a strong alert on
left door handle. Inside the truck we recovered 169.5 grams of ICE and 9 grams of
cocaine.
Don Merchant
Police Officer SeniorGwinnett County Police DepartmentOn 013006 Officer Merchant was called to conduct avehicle search. He deployed K-9 Bleu in the interior of the vehicle and Bleu
alerted by scratching, then biting, at the back seat near the trunk. A hand search was then conducted by Officer Merchant and he located inside the trunk
approximately .5grams of marijuana. The driver was arrested and charged for the
marijuana.
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This is K9 Euro with 515 lbs. of Marijuana. Picture taken in
2004.
Corporal B.S. Finnegan #478
Gwinnett Police K9 Unit
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Eddie Moore
Corporal
Nash County S.O., NCeddie.moore@nashcountync.govOn 03-12-06 at 0130 hrs, I assisted a local PD on a
traffic stop where the passenger had fled on foot. He was wanted out of Maryland
for various violations. An on-lead area search was conducted, and was found by
K9, hanging from a tree limb dangling over the edge of a creek hiding. He was
taken into custody.
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On friday March 26th Greenvville Drug task force officers
conducted a buy/Bust operation of three ounces crack cocaine. the suspect decided
to co-operate and led officers to an apartment where he had another 25 grams of
crack and a stolen gun. The suspect obviously forgot we were going to bring k9
Sam into the apartment.
K9 Sam on lead was searching the first bedroom we entered and started alerting in
the closet area in the clothes, k9 Sam was directed to seaxrh the rest of the
room and as walking back by the closet again alerted to the closet.As R/O was
telling officers to search the closet R/o observed k9 Sam bite down on an object
which turned out to be money rolled up and banded k9 sam was rewarded. R/O handed
the money to another officer and K9 Sam not having enough went back into the
closet and proceeded to remove another bundle of currency from a swaetshirt
hanging up. R/o again rewarded Sam and handed the money and R/O then observed the
rest of currency still in the sweatshirt. all in all K9 Sam alerted to $6200 in
US Currency.
The suspect was not happy!
Thought it was cool, There's no denying that money was from dope!
Corporal Mike Waddell Gwinnett County PD
mike.waddell@gwinnettcounty.comOn 040806 K-9 Caleb and I were called in to track
entering auto suspects who had taken several thousands of dollars worth of
construction tools and equipment. Caleb immediately picked up a track and after
about 500 yards of tracking through an apartment complex we got a visual of one
of the suspects who turned and fled. After tracking him about 100 more yards I
got another visual of him running through a parking lot so I gave several K-9
warnings to stop. The suspect turned and looked at us then put it into a higher
gear. Caleb was then sent to apprehend him from about 75 yards away. The
suspect made it another ten yards before being taken down by Caleb. After he was
in custody we continued the search for a second suspect who Caleb found hiding in
a cab of a pick up truck. The second suspect surredered to us without incident.
Officer John Bailey
Gwinnett County PD
Officer Bailey and K-9 Cody were called to the scene of aserious injury hit and run accident where the suspect had fled on foot. K-9 Cody
picked up the hour old track leading officers through thick woods coming out to
the back yard of a residence. K-9 Cody continued tracking up to a van parked in
the back yard where the severly injured suspect was located. An ambulance was
called to the scene which transported him to the hospital. Medical personel told
us that if the suspect had not been located he would have died from his injuries
thus K-9 Cody ultimately saved his life.
Jeff Drake
K9 Handler/Trainer
Buncombe County Sheriffs Office
jeff.drake@buncombecounty.org
K9 officers Drake and Jaramillo and their partners responded to assist patrol with a B&E in progress.K9 Bonnie (Bloodhound) assisted by K9 Cleo (Patrol dog) tracked from the scene of the breakin to where 3 suspects were found hiding under a
bridge and taken into custody. The post arrest interview revealed that the 3 suspects were responsible for multiple church breakins in our county in which there were no leads. All of the stolen items were taken to Tennesse and pawned.
August
