STAFFORD COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Final yr, Stafford County Sheriff’s Workplace recruited a bloodhound pet named Ruby. Final week, she made a profitable observe finding a person affected by psychological well being points.
On Could 3, deputies responded to the world of Heflin’s Storage in Fredericksburg for a suspicious particular person.
Initially, it was believed that the person was concerned in an earlier capturing that had occurred a mile away additional north. The person had instructed staff on the storage he had video of a capturing and wanted to get out of the world. He ultimately ran away.
Deputy Eastman and Ok-9 Ruby, upon their arrival, had been tasked with monitoring the person by the woods. One other witness had known as in to report that the person was within the space of Amara Drive one other half mile away additional south.
Ok-9 Ruby put her nostril to the bottom and went to work.
Deputy Eastman and Ruby instantly picked up the scent and traveled down a steep hill by the woods. They got here to a cease close to a creek mattress the place Ruby started wagging her tail and pawing at a pile of leaves.
Deputy Eastman noticed a pair of eyes searching from beneath the leaf pile and gave instructions for the person to give up.
The person was detained and police decided him to not be concerned within the capturing. He was, nevertheless, affected by psychological well being points.
Because of the work of Deputy Eastman and Ok-9 Ruby, the person was safely positioned and brought for psychological well being remedy.
