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State police K-9 finds missing girl; another locates a suspect in a separate search<\/strong><\/p>\n Dialynn Dwyer On Wednesday morning, Millbury police requested help from state police searching for a female juvenile. Trooper John Doherty and his K-9 partner Roxy responded to the home where the young woman was last seen, and Roxy was deployed on a track with the juvenile\u2019s scent, according to police. The four-legged officer led her partner down the street toward a wooded area and eventually to an overpass of the Mass. Pike. <\/p>\n \u201cRoxy pulled to the left side of the road toward the fence line where she displayed a proximity alert and appeared to want to get through the fence down to the roadway below,\u201d police said. \u201cTrooper Doherty and K-9 Roxy found a path around the end of the fence to below where she pulled under the overpass.\u201d<\/p>\n They located the missing girl, who was not injured, up an incline near the bridge deck. The girl was taken for evaluation by EMS.<\/p>\n ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/p>\n The next morning, Trooper Dan Purtell and his K-9 partner Binks responded to help Tewksbury police after one of the town\u2019s K-9 officers conducted a traffic stop where the vehicle backed into the police cruiser and fled the scene. <\/p>\n The Tewksbury officer was not injured, and shortly after officers located the vehicle abandoned in the front yard of an Andover Street residence, according to police. Officers received a 911 call from residents of a nearby home reporting a man with a flashlight in their backyard.<\/p>\n Purtell and Binks arrived in the area a short time later and conducted a traffic stop of what Purtell observed to be a suspicious vehicle.<\/p>\n \u201cThe operator informed Trooper Purtell that he drives for a rideshare service and was heading to pick up a passenger at a nearby residence,\u201d police said. \u201cThe individual never arrived for the pickup at which point Trooper Purtell deployed K-9 Binks from the backyard of the intended pickup point.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n 0 \/ 1 \/ 0 K-9 Helps Police Arrest Suspect in Tewksbury<\/strong><\/p>\n Kelly Garrity<\/p>\n A K-9 officer helped police in Tewksbury locate and arrest a suspect early Friday morning after the man backed his car into a police cruiser, police said.<\/p>\n According to authorities, Tewksbury police officers were conducting a traffic stop when the operator of the vehicle, Edwin Figueroa Jr., intentionally backed the SUV he was driving into a cruiser before fleeing the scene. Though no human officers were in the vehicle at the time, a K-9 officer was.<\/p>\n Sergeant Colin Trelegan said he was in the middle of a routine check when Figueroa drove straight into his cruiser which his K-9, Leo, was sitting in.<\/p>\n Luckily, both Trelegan and Leo were unharmed. “The second I checked on him, his ears were up. He wanted to go look for someone,” Trelegan said of his K-9 partner. “He seemed completely fine, and were pretty fortunate.”<\/p>\n After an investigation, police said they discovered the SUV, which they say Figueroa had stolen, abandoned outside a home on Andover Street. When residents nearby reported seeing a man with a flashlight in the backyard, a K-9 unit was deployed in the area, police said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nState police K-9s had a busy 24 hours this week in Massachusetts. <\/p>\n
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