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\"image\"<\/a>Animal conquers the electronic! \u00a0A K9 dog was responsible for taking down former Subway spokesman and future prisoner Jared Fogle. When authorities served a federal search warrant on Fogle’s residence last month, they were unable to find key evidence in a hand search by agents. \u00a0The dog saved the day.<\/p>\n

Search warrants allow the named law enforcement officers to examine any location which might contain the evidence specified in the affidavit. \u00a0In child pornography investigations, evidence can be secreted on devices as large as a server or as small as a micro SD card, which means it could be hidden in an infinite number of places inside a dwelling.<\/p>\n

K9 Bear, a 2-year-old black Labrador retriever, was trained to locate digital media storage devices through his sense of smell. \u00a0Dogs perceive odors differently than humans. \u00a0Where we smell pizza, they separately identify tomato sauce, cheese, pepperoni, garlic, basil, olive oil, crust, and perhaps mushrooms. \u00a0That is why dogs can be used to accurately find people, drugs, explosives, household mold, bedbugs, illegal fruits, and even human cancer cells.<\/p>\n

Their scent discrimination allows dogs to accurately identify and alert their handlers to specific substances when the K9’s are trained with the proper amounts of on-task rewards and repetitions. \u00a0Courts have recognized that well-trained, documented dogs give reliable alerts that are legally defensible in criminal matters.<\/p>\n

K9 Bear was able to locate what his human partners could not–a hidden flash drive on which Fogle stored his child porn. \u00a0Electronic detector dogs train on hard drives, USB drives, SD cards, and similar materials. \u00a0There are supposedly fewer than half a dozen dogs in the U.S. employed to find these electronics. \u00a0We could see an increased demand for them for the coming years. \u00a0I assisted in serving two child pornography warrants in the last three weeks. \u00a0A trained dog may have found additional evidence at each.<\/p>\n

Though he had been working with Indiana’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, K9 Bear has relocated to Seattle to continue his sniffer job with a new handler. \u00a0Dogs have been trained for use in law enforcement since the year 1899 in Ghent, Belgium. \u00a0This digital-age focus is just the newest trick learned by the old dogs.<\/p>\n

Randall<\/p>\n

Photo: \u00a0Tactical Detection K9<\/p>\n

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