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when he was supposed to be looking for drugs A police dog in Mississippi has been fired from the force, after finding playing with soda cans more interesting than drugs busts. Police in Gulfport will be sending the Belgian Malinois dog back to the training facility he came from as Fred was found to be 'slacking off'. Just two years ago, the city of Gulfport paid $12,000-$13,000 for Fred which included training at a facility in Kaplan, Louisiana. Fred was trained at K-9 Unlimited in Kaplan, a school thought to be excellent for turning out well-trained and hardworking dogs. Chief...

Police Officer Faces Charges In K-9's Death 8:39 am EDT March 10, 2008 MIAMI -- A Miami K-9 officer is expected to surrender Monday morning to face animal cruelty charges for allegedly allowing his police dog to starve to death. Investigators said the 4-year-old bloodhound named Dynasty weighed 33 pounds when she died in November, though she had weighed almost twice that 10 months earlier. Officer Rondal Brown was relieved of duty while the investigation was pending. His attorney said it's "utter nonsense" to claim the officer intentionally harmed or killed his police dog. Brown has spent most of his...

Charges dropped in police dog taunting case The Associated Press PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh man accused of taunting a police dog is no longer facing criminal charges. Allegheny County prosecutors dropped a felony charge of taunting a police dog because 23-year-old Kenneth King has completed anger management charges. Police say King taunted and threatened to kill Benny, a German shepherd. King says he yelled at the dog because it barked and startled him when he walked past a police vehicle. King spent nine days in jail in October in the case because he couldn't post $100,000 bail.

Sgt. Tom Lovejoy, who heads the six-dog K-9 unit, found the 5-year-old Belgian Malinois when he walked out to the vehicle parked at his home, police spokesman Sgt. Rick Griner said.