The Brunswick County North Carolina Sheriff’s Office lost one of its top dogs Saturday to cocaine poisoning from a package allegedly dropped by drug suspects. K-9 Viper was memorialized by about 200 county employees and law enforcement officers Tuesday morning during services in front of the county courthouse. A Belgian Malinois and one of the [...]
Legislation sponsored by Senators Fred Madden (D-Gloucester/Camden, New Jersey) and Donald Norcross (D-Camden/Gloucester, New Jersey ) that would enhance the penalties for intentionally killing an on-duty police or search and rescue dog was passed by the full Assembly. The measure was drafted in response to the November 30, 2010 killing of Schultz, a 3 1/2 [...]
His name is Memphis, and he will never be forgotten. On Monday afternoon, 40 people and 11 K-9s gathered at the Red Bank Veterinarian Hospital in Tinton Falls, New Jersey to honor Memphis, a 10-year-old German Shepherd police dog before he was to be euthanized. Kevin Geoghan, a Hazlet, NJ police officer, his wife Maria [...]
BY MARY BETH LANE For The Columbus Dispatch The State Highway Patrol dispatched its special-response team this morning to help local authorities in southeastern Ohio find a man who stole a deputy sheriff’s SUV last night with his K-9 unit dog inside. The Ford Expedition that was stolen from the deputy in Vinton County has [...]
BY GEORGE MAST For APP.com GLOUCESTER TWP. — The sound of mournful wails from bagpipes intertwined with the baying of dozens of police dogs filled a park here Thursday. Nearly 1,000 community and law enforcement members gathered at Gloucester Township Community Park as the late K-9 Schultz was memorialized with full police honors. A volley [...]
Click to join our Facebook Fan Page and follow us on Twitter! By The Associated Press Officials are trying to find a police dog that escaped from its outdoor kennel as a nor’easter pounded New Jersey. The Atlantic County Sheriff’s Office said Dillinger’s handler, Ron DeMoulin, found the 2-year-old Belgian Malinois missing after a lightning [...]
