Police Puppy Program

This is a picture of our newest member pup in our Police Puppy Program. Puppy Dreger came to us from North Carolina, and is being raised by a Troopper and his family in Rutland.

Iron Dog 2009

The Smoke House


The Dog Carry



One of our new obstacles


Low crawl culvert


The Water Crossing


Another of our new pieces

This year's Iron Dog was a success. The weather was perfect. We had 70 teams compete in the 1.5 mile course. And the winners were:

Female 16-29
Ashley Porter and Brodie 15:52.97
Sarah Gazo and Timber 16:32.94

Female 30-39
Jolee Yedo and Sprocket 13:08.98

Female 40-49
Robin Magee and Sydney 11:09.07
Cindy Barrows and Daisy 14:38.84

Female 50+
Valerie Spadaccini and Kelby 18:03.32

Male 16-29
Travis Bingham and K9 Odin 9:27.81

Male 30-39
Eugene Duplissis and K9 Argus 9:24.25
Robert Giolito and K9 Mitch 10:01.88

Male 40-49
John Sims and Finn 9:10.85
Ed Hunter and K9 Maximus 10:24.59

Drug Search
Dave White and K9 Rolf 3.55

Building Search
Dave Dewey and K9 Tazor 7.50

100 Yard Dash
K9 Argus (Eugene Duplissis) 7.34

For a list of all results, go to the Iron Dog page (at right).

Recent finds

Trooper Trudeau of VSP Bratt assisted at a motor vehicle stop on I-91 in Rockingham. K9-Gally was deployed and he alerted hard on the vehicle. A search warrant was issued located in the vehicle was approximately 3.32 ounces of cocaine.

Sergeant Whitehead and K-9 Braden (Brandon PD) were called to assist with a traffic stop. On an exterior sweep of the vehicle K-9 Braden alerted twice. After consent was obtained, an 8th ounce of marijuana was located.

K-9 Tazor and Officer Dewey (Colchester PD) assisted in locating a male who had fled after driving his snowmobile down a main road in August. The male stopped, fled into the woods and into a swamp. The male was found hiding in the swamp, charged with DUI4.

Officer Post and K-9 Bricks (Rutland PD) were sent to a family fight at local hotel. As they attempt to make contact the suspect boogied out a back window. K-9 Bricks started a track and through heavily populated residential yards to a junk into full sprint towards a deck. As they approached the deck the suspect emerged from under 4 feet of water drinking a beer. The suspect was quoted as saying "I wont fight or run with him here."

K-9 Cairo with Trooper Lombardi assisted Lamoille outpost with a drug sniff of a vehicle. Cairo alerted on the vehicle, a search warrant was later obtained and a few grams of MJ were found under the passenger side front seat.

VSP responded to Rutland Town to a report of a missing 83 year old male. The elderly man was last seen walking with his dog toward a wooded area. Approximately 1 hour into searching, a K-9 Mitch with Trooper Giolito located the elderly man in a wooded area.

Third Annual K-9 Classic Golf Tournament

Held on a perfect day at the Montague Golf Club in Randolph VT. Thanks to Jon Tracy (Leb NH PD) for organizing this again).

And the winners were:

First place: Jim Roberts' team from Roberts Auto in Lebanon, NH.
Runner up was Travis Bingham's (Newport PD) team.

Both teams shot a 61, with the tie breaker going to the back nine which Roberts Auto won.

And a special thanks to our hole sponsors:
Cindy and Rob Daley

Green Peppers Restaurant
Fire and Ice Restaurant
Rosie's Restaurant

And thanks to the following who made donations as well:

Bill Solari - sox tickets
Tim Riley - pats tickets
Eastman Golf Links - two greens fee /cart

Finally, we especially thank the Mascoma Savings Bank who paid for our shirts for the third year.

Decoy School

The VPCA hosted a Decoy School at the Academy. Three handlers and three decoys attended, spending the long weekend being hit, punched, tackled and bit by our dogs. Good school.

From Lebanon NH PD K9 Max and our retired K9 Niko

News from the past couple of weeks:

VSP Trooper Dave White and K9 Rolfe assisted in locating a trio of runaway juveniles from a Rehab Center. The team ran through woods, down roads and through a swamp and made the find of the three hiding in a dugout. Awesome track.

Lebanon PD Officer Jeremy Perkins and K9 Max completed a 2.5 hour old track on mostly pavement to locate a 15 year old runaway. Short track, but very old for pavement.

Chester PD Sgt. Mark Phelps and K9 Riggs assisted in New Hampshire with a drug search of a car. Good alert to the glovebox resulted in $2600 cash seized, and a small amount of crack and marijuana.

Burlington PD Cpl. Wade Lebrecque and K9 Andre alerted on $16,815 in cash, and alerted on the door of a car where the driver admitted to just doing a drug deal. Cool….