Walmart helps replace retiring K-9 officer

When Natchez Police Department officer Brian Seyfarth goes to work, he feels half-dressed.

For four years Seyfarth has been a K-9 officer with the Natchez Police Department, but for the last eight months, he’s been missing his partner.

“When I would grab this gun belt and put it on to go to work, he’d be at the door ready to go,” he said. “It is heartbreaking that he isn’t able to work anymore, but he is living the good life now.”

Seyfarth’s canine companion Rex was retired, and the department is now in the process of raising money to replace Seyfarth’s partner.

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Prince William County police to celebrate 40th anniversary

When the first Prince William County police officers hit the streets, they didn’t carry portable radios. Officers patrolling sleepy neighborhoods for signs of trouble sometimes had to rely on pay phones to stay in touch. And reports were handwritten on carbon paper.

That was 1970, the year the county launched a police force, with 42 officers and a $750,000 budget.

Today the department employs more than 700 people with a budget of $73 million. It has a scuba unit, a motorcycle unit and its own training academy.

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Ohio police officers hit pavement for Special Olympics

If you see police officers running down your street today, June 24, don’t be alarmed; they are probably taking part in the Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics.

The annual event, which began in 1981, has been held in Ohio since 1985.

Ohio has five legs of the event, and each leg has a torch it carries to Ohio Stadium in Columbus for the opening ceremonies of the Ohio Special Olympics State Summer Games.

The Cincinnati-Columbus leg began Wednesday, runs through the Miami Valley today and is scheduled to arrive in Columbus on Friday evening.

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UPD gets first female SWAT officer

In the history of the Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Office and the Unified Police Department, there has never been a woman on the SWAT team, until now.

The UPD announced this week that officer Librada “Trina” Chacon was recently selected to the specialized team after completing a rigorous tryout with high marks.

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Policeman recognized for heroic action; Coates awarded Life Saving Award for quick action in emergency

A man “on the floor bleeding to death” was the sight Streetsboro Police Officer Aaron Coates encountered when he responded to an April 11 EMS call that was close to his location near Route 14.

Coates said the man in his 30s was lying on the floor of his garage, bleeding profusely from a severe neck wound he received when a piece of his truck engine’s fan blade broke off and struck him while he was working on it.

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State trooper clocks $378,000 Fantasy 5 prize

Good for him!

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A Georgia Lottery prize is on the radar for a lucky Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper. James Bates, 55, is one of five players to win $378,090 each from matching all five winning numbers in the May 31 Fantasy 5 drawing.

With a $1.89 million total prize payout, it is the highest Fantasy 5 jackpot in Georgia Lottery history.

“I brought a couple of my friends down, and we all bought tickets that day,” said Bates, a resident of Benton, Tennessee.

Winning numbers from the May 31 Fantasy 5 drawing were: 3-14-17-23-28. Sunrise Grocery, 2110 Highway 2 E. in Crandall, sold the winning Quik Pik ticket. The other jackpot prize winning tickets were purchased in Toccoa, Macon, Tallapoosa and Jackson.

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