US EditionStray Dog Turned Police K9 Helps Find Missing Children in Indiana Forest
K-9 Knox tracked a 550-yard path to locate two lost 11-year-olds in dense woods after a multi-agency search effort in Brown County, officials said.
- On Sunday evening the Brown County Sheriff's Office was dispatched near Sundance Lake in the Hoosier National Forest for two 11-year-old children, and K-9 Knox helped locate them.
- Prompted by the separation, sheriff's deputies and multiple agencies searched the area after the two children became lost in thick woods, officials said.
- The initial search turned up nothing until Deputy Cody Loncaric and K-9 Knox began a 550-yard track in a nearby field, guiding responders toward the missing children.
- The two children were reunited with their family after the search, an outcome officials credited to Knox and his handler, while the sheriff's office thanked all involved agencies.
- Knox began his first track in the field near the missing location, guiding first responders through dense terrain as multiple agencies coordinated the search.
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Although the authorities did not specify how long the minors were missing, they were both found safe and sound.
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WANE-TVStray dog turned police K9 helps find missing children in Indiana forest
BROWN COUNTY, Ind. — A former stray dog turned Brown County police K9 is being celebrated after helping find two missing children deep in the woods of Hoosier National Forest. Knox, a former stray puppy who lived in a parking lot and survived on chicken nuggets thrown from car windows, is now a K9 officer with the Brown County Sheriff's Department. On Sunday, the dog tracked and helped find two 11-year-olds who got separated from their mother ne…
A police K-9 dog found two 11-year-old children who were lost in the dense forest of Hoosier National Park.
Police dog helps find missing 11-year-olds found in Hoosier National Forest
NASHVILLE, Ind. (WISH)– Two children who got lost in Brown County were reunited with their family, thanks to a hardworking police dog named Knox and his human partner. On Sunday evening, the Brown County Sheriff’s Office was dispatched near the area of Sundance Lake in the Hoosier National Forest for two 11-year-old children that became separated from their mother and were lost in the thick woods. Sheriff’s deputies, along with the Indiana Depar…
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