"...Drug Raid yesterday in Conroe...  I took Nina inside...  a two story 3000 sq ft home.  Nina alerted to a red tool box in one of the upstairs bedrooms...  we discovered 5 grams of black tar Heroin with scales."

 

 

From THE COURIER
"...black tar heroin is seldom seen.  The drug, which is extracted from the seeds of certain varieties of poppy plants, is the most rapidly acting of opiates, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration."

Well Nella did it again!  Cold Find... Suspect vehicle at an apartment complex known for narcotic activity.  Nella entered the vehicle and alerted between the driver seat and the center consol...  42 grams of marijuana and 2 grams of meth were found. 

July Bust: ...Nina took $8000 and a 2006 BMW 680 LI with a V12 engine away from a drug dealer today.  

Here are some pictures of my dog's drug find last night... When my dog alerted on the exterior of the car and tried to jump through the driver's window, that got us into the vehicle. K-9 Aram then alerted on this can and literally picked it up with his mouth. As you can see the can had a secret compartment. Inside the can was right at 2 grams of crack cocaine. Upon searching the rest of the interior of the car, I recovered a loaded 9mm pistol under the passenger seat. Needless to say the driver of the car was pissed.

...a random check of cars at the high school. Nina made an alert to the passenger side of a vehicle. Searched the vehicle and discovered 4 Marijuana roaches and Marijuana particles within the car. Also located in the car was one metal blue cylinder in the passenger side of the car. When opening the cylinder I saw two plastic baggies one inch by one inch. The baggies had pink panther printed on them. I viewed some white residue in both baggies, ...the suspect admitted that it contained "ICE" at one time. Also a knife and a CO2 pistol was located in the car. The roaches weighed 0.6 grams.

At 0130 hours I made a traffic stop on a 2004 Ford Excursion for a speeding violation.  Upon further investigation, amongst other tale tell signs like three cellular phones in the console, two men traveling with no luggage, traveling with windows open when it's 25 degrees, stating they needed gas when the gauge showed 3/4 full and the lack of interest in making eye contact while I asked questions, I became even more suspicious.  This suspicion was enriched 100% when I ran warrants on the two men and received an NCIC hit on the passenger.  Why would a warrant make me more suspicious?  Because the charge was for possession of Marijuana in excess of 50 pounds.  None the less, my back-up arrived and we placed the passenger in custody.  As he turned around to place his hands behind his back he discarded his energy supplement, which was about a gram of cocaine.  When I began speaking to the driver, he became very nervous and his body language was obviously telling me it did not agree with what his mouth was saying.  …he granted permission for me to search through an empty vehicle that he had only owned for five months.  A hand search revealed virtually nothing although there was exception to the visual inaccuracies of missing interior parts, loose moldings and headliner, etc... But the big area of interest to me was the flashy and shiny scaring inside the hex screws that were attached to the floor in the back over the location of where the gas tank would be.  Well, after nothing by hand, I asked the driver to stand "over there and be very still".  That's when he saw me going to the car and said, "Oh, you got a dog?"  Of course!  I retrieved Primus and asked Primus to tell me where the dope is.  Upon command, we ran the exterior of the car and nothing.  By the way Rob, it was "hit and get" we did not lolly-gag.  We then entered the rear of the vehicle and Primus immediately turned around and hit the right floor and molding panel where the jack would normally be stored.  I had searched this area very well and knew there was nothing there or hidden close by, so I pulled Primus out and ran the remaining interior.  I then put Primus in one more time and he did the same thing.  Now I decided that Rob is probably right when he says "Don't doubt the dog!”  Now I began a more thorough hand search and visual inspection of the gas tank underneath the vehicle.  Still nothing out of the ordinary.  I called in reinforcements to include the rest of my shift and the Drug Task Force explaining my precursors to them.  We all searched diligently and still nothing.  Just as we were about to give in despite the valid signals we had discovered, I asked my state police buddy if they still had a scope.  He said, "It's at the office."  I asked to go get it cause I just got to know.  Well upon inserting the scope into the tank, we observed PACKAGES!  Now we took the vehicle and driver to the "shop."  ...

…  Anyway, the pictures tell the rest of the story.   The total seizure resulted in 174.5 lbs of marijuana in 160 individually wrapped bundles.

Again I thank you for training and introducing me to a multi-purpose K-9 that is truly amazing!!!   

Lt. Kelly Lowe
Carlsbad Police Department

"...day 5. Requested for a walk up to a front door where Maya alerted on the door. 1,500 plant grow inside."

"...here are some pictures of weed we got last week... Dona is being used quite a bit on indoor grows... she is doing good for us."

...some pics of a find Bora and I got last night.

We had a total of 6 arrests and 2 vehicle seizures from this case.

K-9 Officer and Partner Nik Make Drug Arrest

 A routine traffic stop by a Winnfield police officer netted a find of illegal drugs on February 11 and arrested two on drug charges... 
Police officer Craig Vines, who is also the k-9 Officer of the WPD, stopped a car ... after observing the vehicle run a red light.  During the initial investigative stop, Officer Vines detected a strong odor of marijuana.  When the driver consented to a search of the vehicle, Officer Vines enlisted the aid of his K-9 partner Nik in determining whether there was indeed drugs present in the vehicle. 
After Nik alerted, Officer Vines searched the entire vehicle and found several bags of marijuana packaged for sale.  He arrested the driver... on charges of possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute and disobeying a red light.  The passenger.. was charged with possession... 
Chief Phelps commended his officer and the dog and said the addition of the K-9 to this department is a great tool in the war against drugs. 
"Nik is a dual-purpose dog," said the public relations officer.  "He is trained to attack to save an officer's life as well as to detect drugs."

"SHERLOCK"  Sacramento County SD

"... we got called to a search warrant.  Ran two other dogs and Sherlock. He had two alerts. Alerted on a safe within a safe and a cabinet with a safe inside it. 4 ½ ounces of crystal in the cabinet safe and a Meth pipe in the other safe.  There were 7 people detained and a dog taken out of the apartment. Saw no hesitation. But here’s the kicker. The other two dogs shut down in the master bedroom where the dope was. Sherlock was fine."