{"id":395393,"date":"2026-09-10T01:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T01:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/395393\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T01:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T01:56:07","slug":"miami-beach-polices-youngest-k-9-makes-quick-impact-on-fending-off-illicit-narcotics-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/395393\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Beach Police\u2019s youngest K-9 makes quick impact on fending off illicit narcotics &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MIAMI BEACH, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; While he\u2019s still new to the force, Miami Beach Police\u2019s youngest K-9 has wasted no time in helping officers track down illegal drugs in the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The department says Gator, a German shepherd-Belgian Malinois mix, sniffed out a stash of cocaine and fentanyl in a parking lot near Collins Avenue and 46th Street in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gator\u2019s officer handler, Austin Stenback, found a man passed out and summoned rescue crews to get him to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite being just 1-year-old, the department says Gator has already become one of their most effective drug-detecting canines on the force.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI BEACH, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; While he\u2019s still new to the force, Miami Beach Police\u2019s youngest K-9 has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-395393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}