California Bloodhound Team Reaches Find #800 by Scent Evidence K9 Partners
California Bloodhound Team Locates Missing 88-year-old for Find #40 and Find #800 by Scent Evidence K9 partners! San Bernardino County Sheriffβs Dep. Gabe Jasso and K9 Keva responded to help locate a missing elderly woman with dementia who wandered away at 7:30 am yesterday morning. When Keva deployed the woman had been missing for 8 hours. Dep. Jasso collected a scent article from the womanβs pillow and presented it to K9 Keva who trailed for 2 miles in 40 minutes and located the missing woman safe.
This is Find #40 for the superstar California Bloodhound Team and Find #800 by our Scent Evidence K9 agency partners. K9 Keva has been locating missing persons and suspects since completing her scent discriminate trailing training at our Tallahassee headquarters in 2022. Read more HERE
K9 teams from California to New York contributed deployment reports to help reach this significant K9 trailing milestone. K9 Teams from Lee County Sheriffβs Office reported 48 recent missing person locations and confirmed trails to help surpass the #800 landmark. People with Alzheimerβs Disease and children with autism are among the highest at-risk groups for wandering. β60% of people with dementia or 3 in 5 will go missing and the number is almost as high for children with autism. Our mission is for communities to have a well-trained scent discriminate K9 team ready to respond and bring them home safe to their families and caregivers. Children with autism are often attracted to water so having a Scent Kit prepared in advance saves critical response time when every second counts,β stated Scent Evidence K9 CEO, Paul Coley.
Scent Evidence K9 agency partners also use the same scent discriminate K9 trailing techniques to locate criminal suspects. βWhether our partners are deploying to locate a criminal suspect or bring a missing child home, they are using advanced scent discriminate K9 response skills and scent collection techniques to achieve their mission. They are working and training hard to prepare for this lifesaving job,β stated Coley.
K9 Teams like Cpl. Steven Sella and K9 Zoe (Charlotte County Sheriffβs Office FL), Ofc. Thomas McGeshick and K9 Cleo (Sokaogon Chippewa Community Police Dept. WI), Dep. Melanie Merritt and K9 Daisy Mae (St. Johns County Sheriffβs Office, FL), Ofc. Alan Weinreb and K9 Tupelo (La Verne Police Dept., CA) and Ofc. Brian Neary and K9 Galli (Rockland County Sheriffβs Office, NY) all had impressive K9 search deployments that helped reach the 800 Find milestone. Here are a few highlights from recent K9 searches by our agency partners. THANK YOU to our incredible Bringing The Lost Home K9s and handlers for the work you do every day to keep your community safe. To see more of their stories visit and follow our Facebook or Instagram pages.
3 Charlotte County Sheriffβs Office K9 Teams Locate 3 Burglary Suspects!
Cpl. Sella and K9 Zoe, a Scent Evidence K9 Bloodhound alumnus, were called out to trail 3 burglary suspects along with DFC Giardina and K9 Raider. The suspects bailed out of their vehicle and fled on foot after an attempted traffic stop. The trail was 2.5 hours old. The responders collected a scent article using a Scent Kit gauze pad from an object dropped from the truck by the suspects. K9 Zoe, a scent discriminate Bloodhound, began trailing the scent with K9 Raider following. K9 Zoe had to go under barbed wire fences and identified articles and evidence along the trail. Cpl. Mills and K9 Rico were also notified and arrived at the scent at this point. K9 Zoe trailed to a business that was surrounded by a 6 ft. fence and indicated that the suspects had gone over the fence. Cpl. Sella and Cpl. Mills entered the fenced in area and continued to work the area where officers located the 3 suspects concealed inside a tractor trailer cargo area at the business. The trail was a mile in length. βThis is a great example of teamwork by Cpl. Sella, DFC Giardina, Cpl. Mills and their K9s. They used their scent discriminate K9 response training to place search resources where they were needed to achieve a successful target location,β stated Scent Evidence K9 CEO, Paul Coley. Read more HERE
Top 5 AKC Hero Award Finalist Bloodhound Helps Locate Suspect in New York!
Rockland County Sheriffβs Office Bloodhound K9 Galli and handler Ofc. Brian Neary assisted Stony Point PD in locating a suspect who fled in Oct. 2024. K9 Galli, a Scent Evidence K9 alumnus, was recently one of 5 finalists selected for the AKC Hero awards in the Uniformed K9 Division. The Rockland County scent discriminate Bloodhound Team deployed from the place where the suspect was last seen and trailed .84 miles through woods and residences to locate the suspect laying on an embankment. K9 Galli trailed to the suspect and gave a positive ID alert by sitting.
The Rockland County Sheriffβs Office Bloodhound Team have multiple missing person finds and suspect locations since completing their training with Scent Evidence K9 in Tallahassee. Read more HERE
California Bloodhound Team Helps Locate Endangered Runaway Youth!
La Verne Police Officer Alan Weinreb and K9 Tupelo, a Scent Evidence K9 alumni, responded to a call to help find a missing youth on 1/9/25. The youth left school and had been missing for 3 hours when Ofc. Weinreb and K9 Tupelo arrived on the scene. Ofc. Weinreb collected a scent article and presented it to Tupelo. K9 Tupelo trailed to a gate exit at the school and continued through a parking lot to an apartment complex. After .5 miles of trailing K9 Tupelo alerted and sat at a bus stop. The bus company, and later the youthβs mother, confirmed that the youth had taken the bus home. Read more HERE
K9 Cleo Does It Again!
The Sokaogon Chippewa Community Police Dept. Bloodhound located a domestic incident suspect for her second find in just over a month of being on the job. Ofc. Thomas McGeshick and K9 Cleo responded to help locate the suspect who had an active warrant. Forest County Sheriffβs Office was called in to assist on the trail. Ofc. McGeshick used The SEKR Scent Evidence vacuum to collect a scent article. K9 Cleo trailed the scent at night through fresh snow and roadway slush for almost a half mile and located the suspect unconscious in the woods. After the individual became responsive, he was taken into custody. The Wisconsin Bloodhound team had their first confirmed trail just 5 days after completing training with Scent Evidence K9 in Tallahassee back in December. Read more HERE
Florida Bloodhound K9 Daisy Helps Locate Suspect Who Bailed Out of Vehicle!
Dep. Melanie Merritt and K9 Daisy Mae, a Scent Evidence K9 alumna, responded to assist the Florida Highway Patrol in locating a suspect who had bailed out of a vehicle and disappeared into the woods. Dep. Merritt collected a scent article and presented it to K9 Daisy. The St. Johns County Sheriffβs Office K9 Team trailed from where the suspect was last seen for approximately .25 miles and began circling the area and stopped. FWC and State Trooper responders approached the area from the street and located the suspect lying under a bunch of brush in the area Daisy was searching. The suspect jumped up and ran but was apprehended a short time later after a foot pursuit. Read more HERE
