Bow WOW: K-9 pooch helps take gun off NYC streets
September 26, 2022
K9 Vito and his police handler found the weapon during a vehicle search, the NYPD’s Special Ops team tweeted.
The intrepid pooch, Vito, and his handler, only identified by the NYPD as “Officer Barron” of the department’s Emergency Service Unit, found the illicit weapon during a vehicle search Saturday morning in Brooklyn, according to police and a Monday tweet by the department’s Special Ops team.
Officers had stopped the 2022 General Motors vehicle at Highland Place and Atlantic Avenue in Cypress Hills for a traffic infraction around 8:15 a.m., cops said.
The loaded 9mm Ruger pistol — with a scratched-out serial number — was found by Vito inside a car.
Vito and his cop handler helped to search the car — turning up a loaded 9mm Ruger pistol with a scratched-out serial number, according to police and the tweet.
Cops released a photo of the weapon and its bullets late Monday morning.
Another photo shows a proud-looking Vito, who appears to be a German shepherd.
Driver Carlye Baker, 38, of Queens was arrested and charged with criminal possession of a weapon, a violation for driving without a license, and an illegal signal violation, cops said.
Records show that Baker was paroled in 2011 after serving nearly three years on another weapon-possession charge.
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Good doggie.
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