Broward Sheriff’s Office
During the early morning hours of Thursday, July 17, 2008 BSO K-9 Oozi was shot and killed while pursuing a dangerous suspect. To his handler, Broward Sheriff's Deputy Jerry Wengert, he was part of the family: a loyal friend, an obedient partner, a fearless warrior.
Hollywood Police Department
October 13, 1997, Officer Kevin Keitz and K-9 Kimbo were called out from home in reference to a wanted subject who had jumped from a second story window to the alley below and fled into the neighborhood. Upon deployment a track was located and followed. The suspect was eventually located and immediately, a fire fight ensued. During the fire fight , Canine Kimbo not only saved Officer Keitz’s life by his actions, but was shot a number of times. K-9 Kimbo, while continually being shot, never stopped attempting to apprehend the suspect and continued to move forward in his direction.
North Lauderdale Police Department
Cpl. Robin Massey and her K-9 dog, a 3-year-old Belgian Malinois named Ralph, responded to a call reporting an attempted break-in in Fort Lauderdale. Ralph followed the suspect into a small lake in a townhouse complex, in the 7900 block of Hamptons Boulevard. The suspect, a seventeen-year old boy from North Lauderdale, held the dog under water and later tried to drown two of the five officers who chased him and the dog. Ralph was drowned by the suspect.
Plantation Police Department
On September 22, 2009 Officer Daryl Radziwon and his K-9 partner Kimbo responded to assist the Broward Sheriff’s Office (Tamarac) with locating a robbery suspect, after several minutes on the ground tracking, Kimbo collapsed for an unknown reason. Kimbo was rushed to the Hollywood animal hospital for medical assistance where Daryl waited by his side. Kimbo passed away on September 23, 2009.
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