A Rochester police k-9 is being commended after helping take a wanted man with a history of violence towards officers into custody.
A rochester police k?
"*9 is being commended after helping take a wanted man with a history of violence towards officers... into custody.
Kimt new three's jessica bringe joins us live from the department with how the arrest happened.
Jessica.
Katie?
"* the arrest happened earlier this week when an officer was doing surveillance on 11th avenue south west patrol k?
"*9 handler steve osborn tells me 38?
"*year old brandon wenthold had a felony domestic assault warrant from earlier this year when he ran from police after being told to stop.
That's when k?
"*9 ty was unleashed and apprehended wenthold by biting him for around 20 seconds.
Osborn says k?
"* 9's are able to go into places that are unsafe for human officers which helps keep the officers..
And the community this person is a risk to the public and is a violent offender and this person is fleeing into a dark area, we don't know what they're going, we don't know what they have.
It's an extremely dangerous situation for any person to go into, the unknown and these dogs are able to do those things and navigate those things so we don't have to put humans in the direct line of danger.
Osborn does tell me officers wouldn't put k?
"* 9's in any unnecessarily risky situations where they could get hurt..
All k?
"*9's have yearly certifications that need to be maintained so they're trained and up to date.
Live in rochester?
"* jessica bringe thank you jessica.
The department has eight k?
"*9 officers and they were deployed more than 450 times in 20?
"*19 for tracking..
Detection..
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Anyone with information on the incident is asked to contact the British Transport Police.
He is said to have a number of aliases
