Paris, Tenn.–Henry County Sheriff’s Deputy Cpl. Steven Dean Jr. & K9 Lincoln are fast becoming to ‘go-to’ law enforcement team when tracking needs to be done.
Another example happened just recently when the Henry County Sheriff’s Office received a call from Hollow Rock in Carroll County requesting assistance tracking a male subject with warrants.
Henry County Sheriff Josh Frey said, “This is not their first successful track by any means. Now it seems everybody around here is calling them to help when they need to find someone.”
The male subject in question in this case ran out the back door when they were attempting to serve the warrant. Actually, he had warrants out of multiple counties.
According to the information posted on Find-M-Friends, Cpl. Dean said, “When we arrived, the Deputies stated that they did not see where the subject ran, but that when they knocked on the door they could hear the back door slam open. I retrieved a pair of shorts from inside the residence and after acclimating Lincoln to the area, he was scented on the shorts and we began the track. Lincoln went into the woods directly behind the house and tracked to a creek bed that was next to a barbed wire fence.”
There was a spot in the fence that the creek ran under that was large enough to crawl under and when we passed it, Lincoln turned his head to look at it and slow down but continued forward. After continuing a short distance, Lincoln showed signs of being out of odor, he said.
“I advised the cover officer that I was going to take him back to the spot in the fence on the other side of the barbed wire. Once in that location, Lincoln immediately returned to tracking. We went through a couple of fields and into another patch of woods. We tracked through the woods until we came to a river bed. Lincoln led us down into the semi dry river bed and at the spot where we went down, was a new, unburnt cigarette. Lincoln gave a dismissal towards the left of the river bed and began tracking right. He looked up the steep hill toward the railroad tracks and continued tracking right until he turned back around giving a negative to the right. He again started looking up towards the tracks.”
At this point, a train came through. “Once the train passed, we climbed up a steep hill, crossed the tracks, and proceeded through a small patch of woods into a swampy area with very high grass. About 150 yards into the high grass area, the subject was located laying in the grass and Lincoln tracked to him. He got a bunch of praise from a bunch of the Deputies and got himself a pupcup!”
Photo: Cpl. Steve Dean Jr. and Lincoln–enjoying his ‘pup cup’.