A Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office K-9 is being credited with saving a life. During Tuesday’s county commissioners meeting, Sheriff Jeff Richwine discussed a recent incident involving Deputy Seth Barton and K-9 Loki. “One of our people that was wanted was in a house up in Starke County,” he said. “They get there, this person’s actually stabbing himself. When they get there, Barton and Loki and a deputy from Starke County went into the house, and the guy made it clear that we wanted to kill himself and was still stabbing himself with a knife.”
Richwine said the Starke County deputy tried to use a taser on the suspect. What that didn’t work, Richwine said Barton let Loki lose. “He’s not trained to do this, but he did bite the guy’s arm that had the knife, and the guy dropped the knife and it all worked out very well,” he said. “It could have went 180 different ways, and it turned out well.”
On another occasion, Richwine said Loki helped remove a suspect who had been hiding in an attic. “He wouldn’t come out, wouldn’t come out, wouldn’t come out. So Barton lifts Loki up, puts him in the little thing in the attic, and he goes and bites that guy and gets him to come out of the attic. So those dogs are working very well. Both dogs are very good dogs, I think.”
The sheriff said those incidents were in addition to the dogs’ usual duties of locating drugs.
