Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
A Saline County deputy says he lost a friend when the police dog he handled for nearly five years died after a three-week bout with pneumonia.
Deputy Jim Hughes said the crime-fighting dog -- a German shepherd named Rony (RAHN'-ee) -- was "one of the better dogs around, if not the ...
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Friday, March 27th, 2009
Police dog gets suspect after deputy crashes
06:29 AM CDT on Friday, March 27, 2009
DALLAS — A Dallas County Sheriffs Department deputy is recovering from injuries suffered after crashing his patrol car late Thursday night.
The deputy had been chasing a suspect in a pickup truck who failed to yield for what ...
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Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
Webnesday March 18, 2009, a police dog was shot after a routine traffic stop attempt.
Spokane sheriff's office reports that, an officer attempted to pull 22-year-old male, Johnnie L. Longest over for reckless driving around 10:20pm. Longest sped off in the stolen Honda Civic and lost the officer in a short ...
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Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
I hate to see this happen, it gives police dogs a badd name. A man, who was arrested for having drugs in his vehicle, was bitten by a police dog while in custody, according to the Brunswick County, N.C., Sheriff’s Department.
A Leland, N.C., police officer stopped Vincent Eloyd Hill, 26, ...
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Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
Megan the police dog helps catch Southfields drug dealers.
7:00am Tuesday 17th March 2009
Megan is a police dog who is due our thanks for already leading the police to arrest two drug dealers earlier this month.
Having received a call to report two young men acting suspiciously near a ground flat on ...
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Saturday, March 7th, 2009
CLINTON - During an elaborate memorial, Ringo the police dog received a final send-off Friday befitting canine aristocracy.
A motorcade of 30 police cruisers rolled slowly beneath a giant American flag stretched between fire department ladder trucks.
A floral arrangement spelling out the dog's name was put across the windshield of the ...
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Monday, March 2nd, 2009
A police dog which was stabbed while protecting an officer is to receive a special award at Crufts.
German shepherd Anya was injured in January 2008 as police tried to calm a man with a knife in Swindon.
Her officer Pc Neil Sampson was also badly hurt, but both recovered and are ...
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Saturday, February 21st, 2009
A bullet- and stab-proof vest was given to Chicco, a 6-year-old German Shepherd who is part of the Eau Claire County Sheriff's Department's K-9 unit, and Carly Batz would have been happy to see it happen, the girl's mother said Friday.
"My daughter would have loved this," Stacey Batz said of ...
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Saturday, February 21st, 2009
The Davidson Police Department is sad to report that Swaney, the department’s canine for 11 years, has died. K9 Swaney was recruited in winter 1998 and was named in honor of Davidson Police Officer Mark Swaney, who died in the line of duty on Dec. 25, 1997.
K9 Swaney partnered with ...
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Friday, February 20th, 2009
Jackie Spencer and Jennifer Robinson are each jailed on one-million-dollar bonds. They were arrested Friday after a police officer spotted their RV following another vehicle too closely on Interstate 40 west of downtown.
While they were stopped, police dog Mario alerted the officer to the presence of a drug odor coming ...
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