Drug Dog Hangs Up His Leash

Tony served the department for eight years.

For eight years, Tony has sniffed out drugs in Norwich, but he is turning in his leash and retiring after helping take 7 kilograms of cocaine and crack, several thousand bags of heroin, marijuana and ecstasy off the streets.

“Tony should enjoy his retirement, he has done excellent work for the Department,“ Norwich Police Chief Louis Fusaro said.

Tony was Norwich’s first narcotic detector dog and was specifically trained to detect the odor of cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin, marijuana, ecstasy and illegal steroids.

The dog worked with Sgt. James C. Tetreault and it would have been difficult to find many of the locations where drugs were hidden without the use of a police canine because some were concealed inside mechanical hidden traps, police said.

Tony was also used to assist the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms, Immigration and Custom Enforcement, the Connecticut State Police and several other area police departments.

Norwich expects to have another narcotic canine to be fully trained in the near future.
 

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