On 1-5-10, Astor and I were called
to suspicious subjects at the truck stop. During the stop, Astor
was deployed on the subject vehicle after several indicators.
After alerting on the vehicle several items were found; including
Methamphetamine, marijuana, Steroids (found in safe next to the
marijuana) and several Rx pills. ...more on Astor.
This is a bust that we had just yesterday ...
...was in the backseat
underneath the seat. Great alert.
"DINO"
Canton PD
"SYSKO"
Olathe PD
The Kansas Highway Patrol conducted a traffic stop on SB I-35 just
south of our city.Based on theTrooper’s observations and questioning, they requested I respond.K9
Sysko alerted to both front wheel wells. We pulled out the
plastic liner around the well to discover two hidden
compartments. We cut out1 inchthick bondo and found 44 bundles of cash,
approximately 440,000 dollars.It was suspected that the driver brought cocaine in those
compartments and they repacked them with the cash to head
back
south. Sysko nailed it!
Jak and I
were requested to respond for a sniff on a car stop
originating with the Sparks Police Dept. This sniff led
to the finding of 51 balloons of heroin, (approximately
14.2 grams), located inside a deodorant container.
more on Jak
...Jak
and I were requested to respond for a sniff on a car stop by an
officer with Washoe School PD. This sniff led to the finding of
6.7 ounces of marijuana that were located in the trunk of the
vehicle, inside a backpack.
On
11-14-09 during a stop to check out a suspicious vehicle, I
noticed the driver looking at the shoes of the passenger. I
asked the passenger to kick off his shoes and I found a clear
baggie of marijuana in his shoe. Astor was deployed on the
vehicle and located the rest of the marijuana. Rest of the
marijuana was hidden in a child’s diaper bag.
The Marijuana is from
information from a CI.
The stop was made by a fellow undercover
officer and Jim alerted twice to the passenger side rear
rocker panel. A search warrant was issued and 24 pounds of
marijuana was found in the back trunk. The subjects had just
removed the marijuana from the gas tank and were taking it
to distribute in the local area.
... More on Jim and this bust
During a consensual contact (from C.I. info.), three bottles of
marijuana in rubbing alcohol was located. Astor positively alerted
on the bottles, which contained the mixture. Seeds from the
residence were also removed that were going to be used for the
next batch. The total weight of the marijuana came out to 3lbs.
Wichita
County’s new K-9 officer gave his partner, Deputy Josh Brown, the
signal he needed to search a car he stopped early Tuesday morning,
and the search led to two arrests on chemical possession charges,
Sheriff David Duke said.
Kimbo, a
1-year-old Belgian Malinois, has been on the job since September.
Brown stopped
a blue 1997 Mercury on Highway 79 at Goodman Road about 1:30 a.m.
Tuesday. It wasn’t staying in one lane, Duke said...
... Brown took Kimbo around the vehicle in what Duke
called a “free air search.”
The dog’s
response indicated the presence of drugs, Duke said...
“That gives us
automatic probable cause to search the vehicle,” he said.
According to
the affidavit, the search revealed a digital scale, plastic bags
with residue, 14 lithium batteries, two gallons of Coleman camp
fuel, two plastic funnels, three plastic buckets, filters, shop
towels, and other items... The other items included
ingredients for making methamphetamine and equipment used in the
process…
...“This is
obviously what this dog was bought for,” he said. When Kimbo made
his public debut Oct. 1, Duke described the K9 officer as a tool
in the fight against drugs in the community. Funds from seizures
in previous cases went toward buying a new dog for Wichita County
following the death of 4-year-old K9 officer Clif in May. The
Wichita County District Attorney’s Office made a donation, and
several others in the community also made contributions...
While on stakeout, I noticed heavy
traffic in and out of a known crack house. I popped customers
leaving which led to a 7:00am drug raid (via legal channels
like warrants and such)... Once the residence was cleared of
the suspect parties, Astor was put to work. I learned a
lot that day about a K-9 working in a residence that has a
heavy volume of drugs in it at all times and how odor sticks
(lingers). Astor will show interest in odor but alert on
source (as you know). During the search of the residence, he
followed odor to some weird places like fans in the VCR and
DVD players. This I found was some good spots for odor to
build in a high drug traffic area.
More on this Bust and Astor...
Deputy Rusty Allen and Miko were asked to assist another agency
who had a suspicious package that was sent through Fed Ex. Miko
alerted on the package even though it was wrapped with several
layers of tape. A search warrant was issued for the package and
when it was opened officers located approximately 3 ounces of
methamphetamine that was wrapped in numerous layers of plastic
wrap and tape. The meth was concealed inside of different
electrical components and they too were wrapped in tape.
During a traffic stop for no front License plate, I smelled a
strong odor of Curve cologne (as if masking other odors). Astor
was deployed and alerted on the trunk of the vehicle. Once the
trunk was opened, a surprise was found behind the speaker box in
the trunk. Astor jumped all over in the trunk and got in and then
sat half in and half out of the vehicle (Passive Alert) it was
funny looking, but, hey he gets the job done!
More on this Bust and Astor...
Bar alerted
on this package even though it was wrapped in several layers of
stuff. The first layer was mustard followed by grease, powdered
laundry soap. In between each layer of stuff was a layer of
plastic. The total weight of the weed was 9.9 lbs. ... seeing
him find that through all those counter measures was
impressive...
more on Bar...
On
7-30-09 a subject attempted to flee from Officers in a truck.
When Officers closed in, he jumped from the vehicle and ran into
a heavily wooded area. K-9 Astor was deployed and
convinced the subject to surrender after an hour long run
through the woods. Once he was captured, he told Officers that
the dog stayed so close on him that he was scared to stop and
give up for fear of a bite. Sgt. Walton took the subject into
custody without a need for a bite from Astor... Texas
Mesquite bites hard enough! More on Astor
Half-pound of marijuana, Valium Tablets, joint in the ashtray.
The Willis
Police Department arrested a transient man living in Willis on
drug charges after receiving an anonymous tip.
...allegedly
had a half-pound of marijuana and 30 Valium tablets in his vehicle
around 9:15 a.m. Friday in the parking lot of his workplace...
...officers discovered he had four active warrants in
Kansas City, Kan., including two for aggravated robbery and two
for aggravated assault.
....
"We asked him for permission to search his truck, and he refused.
We contacted the K-9 Unit with Precinct 1 Constable Don Chumley's
office, and the dog alerted on the truck..."
Precinct 1
Deputy Jerry Serratt assisted in the arrest.
Suspicious
person call resulted in K-9 deployment and the seizure of several
illegal drugs (mushrooms, THC resin, and of course weed) both in
the vehicle and on the suspect. Go Astor!!!!
...more on THIS BUST and Astor
Bar arrived at the same time another dog (Aztek) did and alerted on a
suitcase containing $1,299,910.00 inside of it.
Both dogs arrived at around the same time and both alerted so they are splitting the
credit.
On 6-5-09 at about
10:20pm, IPD K-9 unit stopped an RV camper for a license plate
violation. During the stop the K-9 (Astor) was deployed and he
alerted on the generator area of the vehicle, at which time IPD
noticed a magnetic box containing marijuana. GO ASTOR!!!
...more on THIS BUST and Astor
Sgt. Ted Walton noticed a guy fail
to signal while entering a roadway. He activated his lights and
siren and chased him for about 1 mile. When the suspect stopped,
Walton pulled him from the vehicle and ran the Itasca K-9 Astor.
Astor alerted quickly on the passenger door. When Walton opened
the door, Astor jumped in the truck and spun around on the center
of the driver's seat console before sitting on it. The pipes and a
small amount of weed were found in the center console. It wasn't
big but it was another hit for Astor!!
..more
on Astor
Just wanted
to let everyone know that we are just about done with the
school year, and Nela has done a great job since we started
working together last May. Since that time, she has done 150
drug sniffs throughout the school district, resulting in over
20 narcotic arrests, one of those being a teacher. She also
assisted our Patrol Division with a car stop last week that
resulted in 78 grams of crystal meth, 100 hydrocodone tables,
20 grams of marijuana, and $13,000 in cash seized. She later
responded to the subject's residence for a search warrant,
where an additional 1/2 pound of marijuana was seized.
Overall, she has done awesome for her first year of working!
"HART"
Guadalupe County SO
5lbs Marijuana
"BELLA"
Teague PD
"CIR"
Harris County Constable Pct 4
...Cir is working out good down here. On his second
day on the street, he got a quarter pound of hydro marijuana out
of a vehicle on a traffic stop...
Deputy made a
traffic stop on suspect vehicle for a traffic offense. Upon making
contact with the owner/operator, he detected a strong odor of
marijuana emitting from the interior of the vehicle. The deputy
requested consent to search the vehicle, which the operator
quickly denied. The deputy requested Cir to the scene for canine
deployment. I deployed Cir on the exterior of the closed vehicle.
He alerted on the back passenger door after running the seams.
Subsequent search of the vehicles interior produced a quarter
pound of hydro marijuana in a gallon sized zip loc bag from the
vehicles back seat fold down seats area. Smaller "nickel" sized
bags of marijuana were located in the vehicles center console and
front floor board.
He's working
out really well and we have already had two other seizures and
probably 8 narcotics deployments and several patrol for tracks and
building searches. We had a seizure of 30 grams of cocaine which I
wasn't able to get pictures of from a vehicle and one with a
quarter ounce of marijuana from a vehicle. Anyways, thanks for a
great dog.
...one of Primus biggest COKE busts
yet! This investigation yielded one and a half pounds of Crack
Cocaine, and a smaller amount of Marijuana. In addition to items
of paraphernalia, also seized was $5000.00 in cash and eight
guns...
08-07-2008 Location:
State Highway 62/180 mm 135 Vehicle:
2003 Pontiac Grand Am 4-door Narcotics: 2
pounds Crystal Meth Concealment:
factory void in left rear quarter panel accessed through trunk
when removing all carpet paneling.
Nando got
his first tracking apprehension at approx. 0400 hours this
morning. After I lost sight of a male subject that had ran from
me in a short foot pursuit and after several officers had
canvassed the area, I placed Nando at the suspects initial
location and sent him on his way. Nando tracked through all of
our scents and led me straight to the suspect that was lying under
a truck approx. half a block away. The suspect was intoxicated.
He was arrested and I later seized a small baggy of Marijuana from
his right short pocket. Yeah Nando!!!!
"BAR"
does it again! Austin PD
Bar did two
houses this weekend.
When he ran
on the first one, he attempted to climb under the bed to get to
the stuff before alerting. When this apartment was searched,
the gang unit detectives located 407.6 grams of cocaine.
When he was
used on the second house (consent search), he walked over to the
pantry and quickly alerted on the door. When this pantry was
searched, 681.6 grams of cocaine was located along with 3 digital
scales, a kilo press, and other narcotics related items.
Bar got 2.4
pounds of cocaine and 13.3 pounds of marijuana out of a residence
the other day. We were told by the suspect that he had some
cocaine and marijuana in his safe. His girlfriend allowed us into
the residence on a knock and talk. During the course of this
knock and talk I asked her if she would mind if I bring in the dog
to make it quick and she told me we could. When I attempted to
have Bar run on the safe in the closet (the known) he said hell no
and went to the other side of the closet and knocked over a
laundry basket. Bar then started to aggressively alert on these
clothes until a Kilo of cocaine popped out on the floor. Bar was
so aggressive on this find I had to quickly reach down and grab it
before he tore it apart. In addition to this kilo we also found
some more cocaine and marijuana in the safe.
Bar directly
seized the following items, since he started full time work on
3-21-08:
Cocaine
384.8 grams or 13.6 ounces Marijuana 862.2 grams or
30.5 ounces Meth 1.2 grams
Pills (w/dope) 84 Money
$4448.00
"NINA" Montgomery
County Pct. 1
"...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.
"NELLA"
Balcones Heights PD
"MAX"
Pasadena PD
Here are a few pics of Max's
work this year. We are over the million dollar mark at this
time.
currency in the pink bag
$247,000.00
currency in the black bag
$87,500.00
currency in the red cooler
$75,000.00
Max sitting in front
of bales: 3,680 LBS
"ARAM"
Pasadena PD
Here is a
picture of Aram's latest hit.
This is $10,830
that was recovered from a trunk of a car. There was small
amounts of marijuana recovered from the car and Aram hit on
the money which was possibly involved in a narcotic
transaction.
The money will
now be seized by the department.
Just thought I'd
pass it on...Have a good one.
"NINA" Montgomery
County Pct. 1
July
Bust: ...Nina took $8000 and a 2006 BMW 680 LI with a V12
engine away from a drug dealer today.
"ARAM"
Pasadena PD
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.
"...here are the
stats on Max for his first year:"
United
States Currency
$2,612,100.00
Marijuana
1752 lbs
Cocaine
177.5 kilograms
Methamphetamine
4 ounces
Crack
2.2 grams
"He had a
good year last year and is working very well.
Jan 07 to date [May] cash wise just over $300,000.00,
several hundred pounds, and right at 51 kilograms of
cocaine"
...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.
NOVEMBER SUPER BUST!
"PRIMUS" Carlsbad PD revisited
"The total seizure resulted in
174.5 lbs of marijuana in 160 individually wrapped bundles."
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!!!
This week Kilo was asked to
assist DPS with a traffic stop. Kilo alerted on the vehicle
question. Upon search we located a few pounds of marijauna
including a number of plants as tall as Kilo.
Kilo is doing a great job and is loved by the whole department.
Hopefully this is just the beginning.
"...At the end of the third
day we got called to a probation search where a foot pursuit
had taken place. Searched the house and got an alert on
and empty safe. Took Maya in the backyard and she went
nuts on the west fence. I told deputies to look in that
yard. The picture is not that good, but they located
bags of Marijuana, a sawed off shotgun, stolen loaded .45,
more bags of Marijuana, and a cigar box full of ecstasy, and
Cocaine. Not a bad first search."
"...day 5.
Requested for a walk up to a front door where Maya alerted on
the door. 1,500 plant grow inside."
"...The money
picture is of last night. A luggage sniff after a drunk in public
arrest at the airport resulted in a $34,480.00 cash seizure and a
video of their Marijuana grow. Maya is a dream. She loves
everybody and everybody loves her."
"PRIMUS"
Carlsbad PD
At 4:00
today Primus found 99 pounds of marijuana in a Ford Explorer.
The dope was concealed in a portable air compressor and the inside
of a welder. Apparently, the welder guts were removed and
the dope was in the shell and the compressor cap was torched off
and dope packed in the compressor with the cap screwed back on and
the cover to the motor on top of the cap.
"DONA" Austin PD
"...found in a hidden compartment after 2
patrol officers searched the vehicle! This isn't even one of
her big cases!"
"...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."
"BORA" Boerne PD
...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.
"CHARLY" Deer Park
PD
2005 NNDDA National Training Conference in Round Rock
National Competition.
LAW ENFORCEMENT AWARDS
Eddie Pereira, K-9 Charly, 4th Place
the NNDDA National Competition in
Fayetteville
For Law Enforcement
Eddie Pereira, K-9 CHARLY, Deer Park PD, 3rd Place
Officer Eddie Pereira and his
narcotic detection dog Charlie placed 4th in the Brazoria K-9
Competition.
The DPCPAAA congratulates Deer Park's successful police dog
handler!
"AKBAR" Smith
County SD
"...we helped DPS... Akbar alerted on the
trunk of an '86 Lincoln Towncar, we located a new DVD and speaker
box and turned it over and saw that the suspect had duct taped the
bottom seam... we located 1 pound of Marijuana and 1/2 a pound of
Crack Cocaine.
...he had the dope baggied in shrink
wrap, a layer of duct tape, a thick layer of mustard and another
layer of duct tape. The suspect also had a large box of
sausage and a roll of sausage thinking Akbar might have been
hungry... what a *(unwise individual) ...anyway the guy ran
and Akbar caught him by the *(privates) and held him... he is one
*(heck) of a dog and my boss is very pleased."
"MAX" Pasadena PD
Just a quick note
on Max.
He is working very
well and being used daily. 1st day located 9gms crack in a false
bottom cheetos container. And DEA used his alert to seize a VW Bug
with a compartment. He has located 15lbs marijuana on the 7th and
alerted on two different cash seizures in the week and half he has
been out.
Seems that daily he
is running something for someone.
Terry is pleased with how everything is going also.
Thanks again
"NIK" Winnfield PD
From
Handler and Partner C. Vines:
"I would not take
a million dollars for Nik."
"The K9 probably saved my life on this. Nick never backed
off no matter how much the suspect fought. He never let
suspect get between me and him. He was not hurt but he tore
the suspect's *&# up."
"We have made a lot of drug arrests with Nik."
From a
Winnfield newspaper article:
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 ˝ 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."
