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He’s relatively new to the Los Angeles Police Department, but Bosco, a 2-year-old Dutch Shepherd, has a nose for trouble.
The narcotics-detection dog sniffed the secret contained in a soda machine in a downtown LA repair garage — it contained a large stash of heroin, fentanyl and an assault rifle, police said.
“There was way more than Coke in that soda machine,” said LAPD Captain Lillian Carranza, who oversees the Gang and Narcotics Division, which includes several K9 officers.
The soda machine in a downtown Los Angeles repair garage where the drugs and assault rifle were found by Bosco, a 2-year-old Dutch Shepherd who spent six months working with LAPD narcotics investigators.
(Los Angeles Police Department)
Investigators from the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department executed a search warrant Friday at the secret garage location in downtown Los Angeles and asked the LAPD for help with one of his fangs, Carranza said.
Bosco, with six months of experience on the job, went into the garage and punched the soda machine. From the outside, it looked like any other in LA businesses, but investigators opened the machine and found 15 pounds of heroin, a pound of fentanyl and an assault-style rifle, according to Carranza.
“Bosco is great. This is his third broadcast. He finds everything,” says Carranza, who often posts photos of her division’s striking dogs on social media. “If regular cops can’t find anything, he can work wonders.”
The LAPD would not provide further details about the arrest because it was part of a larger ongoing investigation by Ventura County Sheriff’s Department detectives, Carranza said.
Los Angeles police dog finds drugs, gun hidden
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