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January 8, 2008

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Quick recovery of a missing child credited to Washington County Sheriff’s Office K-9 Team

On Saturday, January 5, 2008, Washington County Sheriff’s Office received a call in reference to a missing 18 month old child in the Vernon area.  Deputies were dispatched immediately and due to the urgency of the matter, the Washington County Sheriff’s Office K-9 team was also dispatched. 

Deputies and WCSO K-9 Team arrived within minutes and immediately initiated K-9 tracking with WCSO K-9 Aix.  K-9 Aix picked up the scent of the child and after tracking into the woods and through a fence, the child was discovered unharmed.

‘While the primary purpose of our K-9 team is to locate drugs, this is a perfect example of what these highly trained K-9s are capable of doing in an emergency” states Sheriff Haddock.  “We rely heavily on the services of Washington County Correctional Institution’s K-9 tracking teams for these type situations, but in this circumstance our team was already in the area which allowed us to resolve this case extremely quickly.  I can’t praise our K-9 team Deputy Jeremy Pelfrey and K-9 Aix enough for the great job they did finding this child.”