K9 Tracks Down Missing Child in Okaloosa County, Florida

1 年前

Sheriff’s deputies in Florida reunited parents with their missing eight-year-old son who has autism on the night of Monday, March 27, with the help of K9 Beau.

In footage released by the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office, Beau and Deputy Tim Pattersons are seen tracking the missing child.

According to the sheriff’s office, the non-verbal boy went missing late on Monday night after he wandered away from his home in the city of Crestview.

Deputy Patterson gave Beau a shirt of the young boy’s to sniff, and Beau got to work. K9 Beau found the young man in less than ten minutes, police said, behind a nearby house.

Police said deputies quickly returned the child to his family. Credit: Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office via Storyful