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pretty upset about because it has made no progress in the year that has passed so this information Captain is from Fox
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16 news and the melver Daily Journal this is about the hot spring County Arkansas Sheriff's Office they say the
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sheriff's office is mourning the loss of one of its own a nearly four-year-old K9
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Deputy named Lucky the K-9 had been with the sheriff's office for a couple of years but only with his Handler since
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February of 2017 Sheriff Mike Cash said since the dog's death the dog's Handler is no
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longer with the Department Sheriff cash said it has nothing to do with Lucky's death but won't say whether the deputy
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quit or whether the deputy was fired Sheriff cash said lucky was found dead in the backyard of his Handler's home on
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Sunday evening July 23rd 2017 so almost a year ago lucky was reportedly tied up in the deputy's yard
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when he was found dead Sheriff cash provided additional details on the death of the dog saying luy's blood was found
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on his leg when he was found by his Handler reports on Lucky's cause of death vary however
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the initial necropsy performed by Arkansas livestock and poultry commission several days after lucky was
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found dead questions whether heat stroke or gunshot wounds were a factor in its death upon further examination the
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preliminary preliminary report concluded that lucky died of blunt force trauma but then 2 months later another necropsy
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was performed with inconclusive results the Arkansas livestock and poultry commission says it does not discuss the
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specifics of any of their cases so was it a gunshot wound you know did somebody shoot this dog was it blunt force trauma
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or was it heat stroke because the initial reports came out that it might have been heat stroke this dog was tied
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up in the Handler's backyard for the course of the weekend and we're talking about hot Arkansas summer July of last
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year we're talking 95 96 97 degrees we had a weekend just this last weekend we were what 96 997 and it felt like it was
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about 105 out there you could cook an egg on my on my driveway yeah and this this canine Officer was left outside the
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Handler States just for that day however there are reports that have come out that said the dog was chained up in the
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backyard for the cour of the weekend well now I'm no FY Malik but I could tell you if I was in charge of this
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autopsy I could tell you whether or not the dog died from blood force trauma or heat stroke well it it it's a very
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sticky situation and what I mean by that is there's some thought that something happened to this dog the dog was
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murdered okay in my opinion you're not going to change my opinion on that regardless of whether it was heat stroke
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blunt force trauma or gunshot I think this dog was was killed now if it was heat stroke it might not have been
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intentional right um but the they have certain protocols and procedures for how these animals these canine Officer is to
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be handled right and these were not they they did not adhere to these uh protocols so let's let's get into this a
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little bit because the sheriff said that the Handler had his mother feed the dog
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in the morning and give the dog water when the Handler got back home this is about 5 hours later lucky who had been
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with the department since September of 2015 was dead the dog was quote the dog was fine at 130 p.m. said Sheriff cash
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he was running and playing Sheriff cash said the Handler saw lucky earlier that day the Handler this is Officer Michael
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Morgan apparently was gone for most of the day then then Sher then the sheriff seems to believe that the blunt force
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trauma findings over over the heat stroke findings so what I mean by that is Sheriff cash who runs this Sheriff's
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Department right he's he's the head honcho he's the guy that's supposed to be in charge here the big cheese he's
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the guy that's supposed to give a [ __ ] about officer lucky more than anybody else and what what he is saying is he
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seems to believe that the blunt force findings are what is more accurate we can't get we can't get positive
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information on how this dog died in the beginning here what and why we know that he thinks
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that it was blunt force trauma was because his own words Sheriff Cash's words are look this dog suffered blunt
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force trauma that's the cause of its death and he was chained up at the time when this trauma would have occurred
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because his statements are typically with blunt force trauma being the cause of death of an animal it's from being
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hit by a car you know it wanders out into the street or tries to cross the street and a and a
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car hits the animal right this this dog could not have been hit by a vehicle if it's chained up in the backyard somebody
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attacked this dog in my opinion now Sheriff Cash's words these this is his words Lucky had food in water he also
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had his dog house a tree for shade and a hanging tarp mhm so the initial theory was that this death was heat related in
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spite of the presence of shade and water but testing like we said eventually concluded that heat was not a factor
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what is strange here though is we still have these rumors of the dog being shot and then later being told that it was
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blunt force trauma that killed officer lucky well it seems like the first findings weren't conclusive and then the
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second findings of the autopsy they're not even sharing with us yeah and here's here's my guess you know it
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even though Sheriff cash seems to be spending little time effort and resources on this case he must somewhere
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in his heart believe this is a murder because whether or not he is aware of his choice of words when he he's been
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cornered a few times and asked to give some explanation as to what has happened and he sits down very very calm at his
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desk and he he answers the questions and he he shies away from some questions um
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but he's using words like he's used words like suspects and Alibi saying luy's Handler Michael Morgan has an
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alibi as he was reportedly with people when they believe this trauma occurred stating that Michael Morgan has receipts
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for purchases from about the time to verify his whereabouts and here we go where cash says quote there are no
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suspects and sheriff and the sheriff's office is still trying to find out who all is involved going as far to ask
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anyone with information to call the hotring county sheriff's office at 501 33777 38 yeah I I I think if you got
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information I would call somebody else because I've been following this thing and Sheriff cash does not seem overly
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concerned with solving this crime this murder this is the murder of an officer of a fellow officer in his Department
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under Sheriff Cash's watch and from my perspective Sheriff cash carries himself like he's got far too more important
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items on his to-do list to spend the time and effort to get Justice for one of his officers for K9 Officer lucky who
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served the hotring County Sheriff's Office and that community and really the thing that I think that Sheriff cash
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fails to understand here is it look man you're an you are an elected official all right I'm sure he understands that
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well I I'm sure he understands that he doesn't understand this next next part he has an opportunity to be a good
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leader and that he is not he has an opportunity to show his officers that look under my watch you will be
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protected this department will have your back and guess what this this canine Officer lucky is
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killed and he doesn't seem to be spending any time to get Justice for that life for the community and here's
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the thing the only difference between officer lucky and the other officers on the sheriff's department was the fern
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no all those other officers the the the men and women that are serving they signed up to be a sheriff they shed up
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signed up to be a deputy officer lucky was asked he was asked to be an officer right but he's a he's not really
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ask as much it's like we're just going to make you officer right how can you really ask a dog to be an officer well
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they do they do they they when when these when animal is taken to be uh an officer these dogs are sent through some
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hardcore training and some of the dogs do not pass the training so in a way you're almost asking the dog to to serve
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because it because officer lucky was smart enough and worked hard enough to learn the training to to pass the school
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to become become an officer all right so the Handler of Lucky has an alibi right
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and we think that is good enough again we don't know if this is blunt force trauma we don't know if there's a
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gunshot we don't know well I'm guessing there is no gunshot I'm guessing it is blunt force trauma and um I think if it
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was a gun shot we probably would have heard about that or at least had some eyewitness of hearing a gunshot in that
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area around that time yeah and and like you said is that good enough it sounds like it's good enough for Sheriff cash
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um I don't think it's good enough for the community because like I said he's been cornered in question about this
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ever since August of he kind of came under Fire for this around August of last year you know it took place Late
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July but it was I think September end of August where there started to be some questions about this autopsy that had
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taken place in in the actual cause of death for this canine Officer now go ahead well I was just going to say let's
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be clear the one of the reasons why this is important is if um a K9 unit came into your house let's say you're a drug
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dealer let's say you're you know selling the nose candy to the local neighborhood kids and here
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comes K9 lucky into your house and you shot him and you killed him you're going to go away for a lot longer than if you
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just even killed a person that walked into your house this is a officer of the law so let's just be clear about that
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well and here's the thing I I believe you know with any officer we should hold them in higher regard as to the way they
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treat others but we also we also should hold them in high regard to how they are
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treated when they are working and on duty off duty I don't care if if something happens to an officer of the
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law I want to know why who and why and can we prosecute this person now Tony Smith he's the owner of the Little Rock
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K9 Academy he's the the one that brought Lucky from overseas as a puppy and trained him to be a Narcotics uh
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detection tracking and protection dog so this so lucky had many jobs let's say and Tony Smith quote says it's always
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sad to hear of a law enforcement dog passing away in a premature death but this this is disheartening because he
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says that a good Handler class will teach how teach the Handler how to secure the dog properly at home and some
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of these measures including getting a dog boarded at a veterinarian office so let's go through this okay kind of back
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back to the beginning Sheriff Mike Cash took office January 1st 2017 okay at that time most of the
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deputies the active deputies of that Sheriff's Department were either fired or they quit when Mike Cash took over
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okay at the time they had two certified can9 handlers both of these officers left the sheriff's department mhm well
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when that sounds pretty fishy when the handlers left uhhuh what happened was we still have two canine officers active
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canine officers we have lucky and we have panto okay now lucky was assigned to this former this now former deputy
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Michael Morgan he was a new hire at the time and he had never attended the criminal justice Ice Academy nor did he
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have any canine experience at all mhm so to be assigned a trained canine Officer
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to a Handler with no training in my opinion this is this is dangerous it's irresponsible right it's it's it's not a
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healthy situation for the community for the Handler or the dog or the canine Officer now former deputy Michael Morgan
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he kept lucky on a chain in his backyard with him having no training or no experience himself they're supposed to
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work with these dogs a certain number of hours a week just on like training exercises right and was he doing any of
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that I doubt it uh this officer went away for to be fair though you don't know I I don't
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know but it doesn't sound like he's being handled properly right from from an outsider looking in not to mention
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the weekend that the dog died Deputy Morgan went away for a weekend motorcycle trip to Oklahoma okay this is
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where I have a problem with Sheriff cash how come you're telling me that that the officer was there for portions
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of that day and we have other reports stating that the officer was out of town for the entire weekend MH which one is
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it and can you just come out and be clear about it right so he leaves the dog chained up in his backyard with his
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mother supposedly to tend to the dog now we have Sheriff Cash's words saying that
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there was water and food in the dog's bowls when when the when lucky was found dead who found the dog I it sounds to me
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like the Handler found the dog like he returned from his trip and then the dog is dead and here's the problem though
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there's other than Sheriff cash right all the other reports state that there was no water in the dog's bowl there was
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no food in the dogs ball which may not mean anything but but why why do we have a
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conflicting story yeah but I don't know I it wouldn't be too much maybe the Handler
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sees the dog sees that dead calls it in starts cleaning up the dog stuff MH I don't know well and here's the other
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thing I don't know about this specific location about this specific area but most police departments usually have
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protocols in place for a canine when the Handler is away most require the canine
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to be boarded at an approved facility or stay with another Handler mhm but they're giving it to a Handler that's
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not even a Handler right so the responsibility on this Handler is you know irresponsible in the first place so
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I'm just guessing if this is what they're dealing with they don't they don't have certain protocols that or
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they probably have them they just don't have the means to follow them well and add to the confusion Deputy Morgan like
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we said now former deputy Morgan he has a somewhat colorful history himself including a order of
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rainbow order of protection against him from one of his Ex-Wives H he has a number of traffic violations and he is
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no longer with the sheriff's department because and this is I'm quoting an article here because I don't have the
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exact information in front of me because of an alleged criminal act for which no
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charges have been filed by the sheriff's department I don't know what that criminal act is or if it's even real
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because they didn't file any charges it is again it's alleged but not only not only is this guy not qualified to
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ridiculous wait wait we think this guy did a crime so we're going to fire him but we're not charging him with the
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crime well we don't know if they fired him the the Sheriff's Office what's the crime I don't I don't know what the
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crime is but the but the thing too that's confusing is the sheriff's office will not even say exactly why he would
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this guy was let go yeah it might be for the murder of this dog well it but that's what I alleged I mean you you
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said it yourself it's alleged criminal activity it's alleged crime it could be that simple and I think that's when we
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first me and you first talked about this case I said no I don't want to throw the
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sheriff under the bus too much because this is a difficult situation to deal with and if he figured out that one of
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his officers the Handler that he put in charge of a dog but he knows that this Handler does not
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have the proper training for this dog that and then you find out that the Handler killed the dog well now once we
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got rid of him now Morgan is gone the problem is gone it's obviously not going to happen again and you know does he owe
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his um Community answers I think so I don't know if you're going to get him well here's the thing here's the problem
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for Sheriff cash he is going to have to go up for reelection at some point at the end of this year he his term is over
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MH so he's going to have to ask the community to sign him up for the job once again how old is he though cuz he
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might be thinking that's true he might think hey you know this is a little too much I mean you become sheriff and half
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the people quit or get fired I mean this is this doesn't sound like a department
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that's running on the up and up anyways okay mean how do you have two K9 uh handlers quit at the same time unless
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he's that much of a dick you know [ __ ] face well it sounds to me and I didn't know this it sounds to me that when a
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new sheriff there's a new sheriff in town when there's a new sheriff um the new sheriff in town that the
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deputies under the old regime can either stay on or or move to a different you know sheriff's office or relocate or
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whatever that they can stay on or the sheriff can determine who they keep on it's almost like a like a football coach
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in the NFL you know when new new guy shows up some of the old guys are gone all of a sudden and that sounds to me
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like that's the situation here um at least that's how it's reported now here's another issue that I have with
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Sheriff Mike Cash when he's cornered when he's asked the tough questions about officer lucky he's he he then goes
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on to complain that you know our office my office has been flooded with with calls for almost a year about this
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situation right and he states that he believes that it's it's uh just these crazy animal lovers or
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he's stating that a lot of the heat is coming from people who support his opponent this is Woody Perry is going to
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be his opponent um which which look he's he's sitting down in front of a camera he has the opportunity to educate the
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community about what has happened to show the community that his department will stop at nothing to protect its
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officers instead he uses the time to complain about his his his opponent in the upcoming election and then the other
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thing this is another thing that KATV has been all over this and I and I commend them I Pat them on the
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backs but um on the butttocks well listen to this Captain because this is super weird and I say I'm going to say so how
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did can the canine Officer die that is a good question we've been over it a little bit but this this is one thing
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that we've not covered yet KATV has they've seen the case File from the Sheriff's Office and here's what they've
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had to say in their reports that they had come across body cam audio not the actual vi video just the audio from a
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body camera on one of the officers this was and it captures hotring County investigators talking to Officer Morgan
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the the Handler at his home upon learning of the dogs death on the recording an investigator can be heard
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00:28:16
about what could have happened to the dog and according to the case File investigators at the scene noted that
00:28:23
Morgan left for the entire weekend this is from the case File according to K left for the weekend and left Lucky in
00:28:29
the care of someone else records state that lucky was left leashed and tethered in the yard the case File also notes his
00:28:37
food and water bowls both appeared to have been empty and empty for some time right investigators also observed a
00:28:46
significant amount of blood on Lucky's body along with a small hole behind his left ear on the body cam audio an
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investigator can be heard saying to Morgan quote I'm going to tell you and you don't tell anyone this part but
00:29:04
lucky was shot Michael we aren't treating you like a suspect but the dog was shot and we need to know who done it
00:29:12
end quote right so is this information that they can prove I mean they're saying that they're seeing this from a
00:29:19
camera is this is camera information out there to the public or is this just what
00:29:25
they're reporting it they're repor in that's what they've reported and they've they've reported that they've heard the
00:29:31
audio that was on that body cam right and that's what the audio says now we're mind you we're only hearing
00:29:40
pieces of that we're only getting told pieces of that it'd be interesting to hear the entire thing because if we're
00:29:47
to believe what KATV is saying then it sounds like not only did Morgan Officer Morgan he may have killed the dog he may
00:29:56
have murdered the dog or two that the investigator that showed up that was asking Morgan questions was kind
00:30:05
of maybe on Morgan's side a little bit it sounds like he it sounds like he's asking him tough questions but he's also
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saying hey look we're we're not saying you're a suspect uh I'm going to tell I'm going to tell you this you can't
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tell don't tell anyone but this dog was shot yeah and well they could have been friends you don't know well I mean I
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think the tough thing here is if he did Kill the dog if the Handler killed the dog mhm now the Handler is
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gone he doesn't work there anymore I don't know what the punishment would have been uh with lucky not being on
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duty but being off duty I don't know what the punishment would be and that's why I wonder if sheriff is just thinking
00:30:51
this guy's gone he's not going to be a problem for me anymore and maybe legally he can't come out you just can't may
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maybe they don't have definitive proof that he killed the dog but that's what they suspect but he's gone anyways but I
00:31:06
can't then just go hey by the way the dog was killed oh really then who was he killed by I can't throw this guy under I
00:31:13
can't say the guy's name and then people would give him [ __ ] for not saying the
00:31:17
guy's name and then if he did say the guy's name and they don't have any proof guess what there's a
00:31:22
lawsuit so I think they know what happened and I I think their hands are tied probably on
00:31:29
why they can why they can't release this information well the another guy weighed
00:31:36
in on this giving his opinion and this is Academy trainer Jim McAn and he says he he trained lucky to become a k
00:31:45
officer he contacted KATV to say that the dog's death in his opinion was suspicious and saying quote this
00:31:54
department was handling this case instead of having an Outside Agency come and inv investigate the way that it
00:32:01
should have been done and he goes on to say quote if they had done that there wouldn't be an issue right now and I
00:32:08
think he's exactly right and I I don't know standard procedure down there but I would believe that you would want an
00:32:16
outside agency to come in and look at this case because a couple things could happen here what if there was wrongdoing
00:32:23
by anybody inside your department they could easily cover anything up now if you have an outside agency look
00:32:29
at this then everybody after the fact can stand back and go look we understand why no charges were pressed we we we
00:32:37
understand that somebody came in and looked at this without bias came in there and looked at this
00:32:44
without bias and made a ruling made a decision and decided that no charges could be pressed in this situation
00:32:51
rather than handling it by yourself right letting the department take a look at it yourself now now
00:32:58
KATV so okay according to the case File this is more strange business according to the case file an investigator took
00:33:06
photos at the scene where lucky died now KATV requested those photos but Sheriff
00:33:12
cash said in a letter and in an interview as well that the photos did not exist stating quote I haven't got
00:33:22
the pictures and they're not in the file back there I don't know if the investigator took them with his phone or
00:33:30
what meaning his personal cell phone right he States the investigator no longer works here right but I I don't
00:33:37
think again that to me that doesn't make the department look Shady or make the sheriff look
00:33:44
Shady this is what happened and we had an investigation and and I'm sure uh you know if look if this was a a
00:33:53
murder scene which it should have just been treated like one right right but but it seems like this
00:33:58
department was like well it's a dog so this is we're going to dis investigate it differently yeah and I think that
00:34:06
that's what I'm having an issue with and I think that's what so many other people
00:34:09
have a big problem with is is exactly that what you just described it's if if Sheriff cash treated officer lucky like
00:34:17
an officer this would have been handled much differently and instead his look is
00:34:22
well it's just a dog it's just a dog that's at least that's the that's what he's putting out there he's not stating
00:34:30
that but that's what I kind of see the effort being made here yeah but he's the one that kind of I mean he could have
00:34:37
just from the beginning just said hey dog died from heat exhaustion this was an accident you know we're really sorry
00:34:43
blah blah blah and hey by the way the Handler's gone so we don't have to deal with that anymore right mhm he could
00:34:49
have done that and that would have been treating it as like it's just a dog mhm but he did come out and say hey look I
00:34:55
think there's something more to this it wasn't just heat exhaustion he's then the one that says not only do I not
00:35:02
think it's heat exhaustion but there was water and there was food he was the one
00:35:06
that said that right again pointing away from the heat exhaustion I think it like
00:35:10
I said before it's as simple to me as here's a guy that his hands are tied and he knows probably more than he wants to
00:35:20
know and he and now he can't share that with with the public well if the can n trainer that we quoted earlier if he is
00:35:30
correct in his statement stating that an outside agency should have been brought
00:35:34
in if that's normal procedure if if he's correct in that statement then I think there is
00:35:41
wrongdoing here yeah but what's the relationship between the sheriff and the then the police officer the Handler you
00:35:48
just I don't I don't know were they friends don't know and and is that enough of a reason that the person would
00:35:55
say okay yes this guy is maybe a little violent maybe a little a bit of an alcoholic or I don't know I'm just
00:36:04
speculating and I'm just saying is it possible that they have some kind of relationship and he didn't want to see
00:36:09
the guy's life get ruined because of a horrible um one horrible action mhm well and like you said you did point out
00:36:19
something very good there and it's and it's obvious but it's good is the you can suspect all you want different
00:36:26
things but what can you prove and what evidence do you have to to point the finger at somebody and tell you what
00:36:33
what actually happened in this situation and who's to blame for it right and my point is is that if you have all these
00:36:39
pieces they have more information than we have right yeah Sheriff has more information than we have and So based
00:36:45
off that information that he has I think he knows who's responsible and that guy
00:36:51
is gone and again you can't then give all the answer to the public because guess who's going to sue your ass CU
00:37:01
because you're making claims that you can't prove you didn't press charges you didn't do all these things and if you
00:37:07
come out and say we think the Handler shot the dog we think he murdered this dog mhm then if you can't prove that you
00:37:18
got a lawsuit on your hands mhm and and then guess who's not going to get reelected
00:37:24
anyways right I see I see what you're saying but the pro the the problem I have here is we have a case File that
00:37:31
states that there were pictures taken of the crime scene right right well that's
00:37:36
allegedly right no this this is according to KATV they're stating we've seen we were
00:37:43
able to review the case File and in that case File is where we found this body cam audio with the strange questions and
00:37:51
the statement of the dog being shot and we also have some somewhere in there it's written that there were
00:37:59
photos taken at the at the scene so what here's where I have a big problem okay one an officer's
00:38:07
murdered two these the the case File is now incomplete we know it's incomplete because of several reasons it states at
00:38:15
one time there were pictures of the crime scene they're not in that file anymore why not right okay but who who
00:38:22
do you hold responsible for that I hold Sheriff cash responsible for that it's his Department well I know it's he has
00:38:29
an incomplete case File he has a Handler that was not trained to be a Handler doesn't even sound like the the guy was
00:38:35
trained to be an officer of the law we who's no longer with the Department we have an investigator who
00:38:43
supposedly investigated this murder of Officer lucky who's no longer with the Department I look I'm just saying if
00:38:51
this thing was handled this poorly I wonder how they're handling other situations down there right you know
00:38:59
what I mean hopefully they're not handling anything I don't I don't think that this suggest that there's some big
00:39:05
huge major cover up on Sheriff Cash's part what I what I think it's evidence of is his his lack of ability to be a
00:39:16
good leader yeah but sometimes you're fighting a battle with your hands tied behind your back you show up half the
00:39:22
people leave or get fired and now you have a situation that you have this guy that's underqualified to to handle a dog
00:39:29
but you have to have somebody do it and then this guy ends up possibly being a giant huge piece of [ __ ] right and so
00:39:37
now we got this dead dog now what we do about it so now we have an investigator and he investigates it where did he go
00:39:44
we don't know if he got fired or if he quit we don't know where did the pictures go we don't know right and so
00:39:50
now you got all these questions that are being brought to you and you got all these you know [ __ ] dildo heads
00:39:56
running and you know helping you run this department and you have to answer for all these people you know yes that's
00:40:02
your job to lead yes it's your job to try to get it together but you know I don't want to throw this guy under the
00:40:09
bus too hard because we don't know what he's working with well I I see what you're saying but but the results the
00:40:16
results that we're getting are not good enough and he's the leader the results that we're getting at the end of the day
00:40:24
okay but here okay I'm just going to play Devil's out if he knows what happened right 100%
00:40:31
knows but he can't prove it then what do you want him to do um I would like I would like that
00:40:38
that's a good enough explanation for me actually look we we think some wrongdoing happened here we can't prove
00:40:44
anything well but he kind of said it I mean he he he he basically told he could have went with the theory that the dog
00:40:52
you know died from heat exhaustion right right he could have went with that theory he did not go with that theory he
00:40:59
was you know pretty clear that hey something happened here and yeah now is he not answering
00:41:07
the next question again I think possibly that could be because of a lawsuit I'm not saying to Tar and feather the guy
00:41:15
I'm just saying that he was elected to do to perform a job as the sheriff of this entire
00:41:24
department at the end of the day the results of of what's going on in the department and the results of how
00:41:31
they're handling situations right they're not good enough they're not good enough for you to be the sheriff anymore
00:41:37
is what I'm stating I I I don't I'm not saying we need to prosecute this guy and
00:41:42
and send him to send him off to jail forever and and throw away the key I'm just saying the job that he asked the
00:41:50
community to do to hey elect me to hold this position um oh and by the way an officer will
00:42:00
ends up dead and regardless of what happened we have an incomplete case File we have two
00:42:06
officers that are no longer with the Department we have people people being canine officers handlers that are not
00:42:14
not trained to do so right and like I said it it doesn't have it has more to do with what else is going on down there
00:42:22
if this if this was handled this poorly what how else are they handling things and like you said it's it appears to me
00:42:31
like this dude took over I'm the new sheriff and I'm just going to mail it in for a couple years and hopefully I get
00:42:37
reelected but it doesn't work that way Sheriff cash it doesn't work that way you either do a good job or you don't
00:42:44
and if you don't you're out right but I don't live there I don't know what he's doing on a day-to-day basis I don't know
00:42:51
uh what the community feels about his work ethic or what he's doing in their community and I don't know if this is
00:42:58
just a black eye on that or if this is the [Music] norm well captain I appreciate you
00:43:27
sitting down with me and discussing the case of Officer lucky I hope that they find Justice for officer lucky at some
00:43:34
point and maybe by us getting together today keeps this case alive keeps the story alive and we can finally get
00:43:42
answers that the community deserves officer lucky deserved a officer's sendoff an officer's funeral which I
00:43:50
reviewed that and it was lackluster he didn't receive the proper sendoff in my opinion so if you live in that area get
00:43:58
involved call somebody keep this case alive we wanted to present this because technically we were supposed to be off
00:44:04
this week Captain right um it's a beautiful holiday week hey wait was I supposed to be recording happy 4th of
00:44:11
July to everybody I hope everybody has a safe and happy 4th of July but we wanted
00:44:16
to make sure that we brought this case up and kept it alive now I think we should leave on a happy note today and
00:44:22
point out just how important these K9 officers such as officer lucky R and this is from Hancock County and
00:44:29
Mississippi so a Hancock County Mississippi sheriff's deputy this is Todd Frasier is alive today because of
00:44:36
his can9 partner who was free to save his life as three men were about to murder him the deputy spots this is how
00:44:44
the story goes down the deputy spots a lone male sitting behind the wheel in a parked car near a rest stop as he
00:44:51
investigates the situation two men approach and begin to talk to him as the men distract Deputy F Frasier the driver
00:45:00
of the car gets out and the three men then Ambush the deputy they tell Frasier that he is going to die that they are
00:45:08
going to slit his throat as the three men begin to drag the officer toward the nearby Woods to carry out their heinous
00:45:16
plan Frasier is able to free his hand he hits a button that automatically opens the door to his vehicle where his K9
00:45:24
partner Lucas is witnessing the crime through the window without hesitation Lucas jumps
00:45:30
into action charges the three men biting them and successfully aborts the attack
00:45:37
on the officer's life and for everybody that's wondering yes I'm signing Frank up to try to be a K9
00:45:46
Officer and I hope everybody has a good Fourth of July and we will see everybody
00:45:50
back here in the garage next week until then be good be kind and don't litter [Music]
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