{"id":202764,"date":"2026-05-26T19:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T19:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/202764\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T19:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T19:38:11","slug":"sheriffs-first-k-9-ends-watch-lehigh-valley-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/202764\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheriff\u2019s first K-9 ends watch \u2013 Lehigh Valley Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published May 26. 2026 03:19PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The Lehigh County Sheriff\u2019s Office sadly reports the passing of retired K-9 \u201cNevie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Nevie, a German Shepherd imported from Germany, was trained in Explosive Detection and<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Tracking. She joined the ranks of the LCSO June 7, 2017 as the first ever K-9 member of the Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Due to declining health, she was retired on May 2, 2025 at the age of 10 years and 6 months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Nevie, with her K-9 handler Deputy Richard Garner, conducted daily sweeps of the courthouses, Government Center, and incoming County mail.  During her tenure, she was activated to a multitude of incidents involving various suspicious packages.  Nevie and Deputy Garner also provided service to over 40 incidents assisting law enforcement agencies throughout Lehigh and Northampton Counties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">She was an integral part of the LCSO Community Outreach Program., conducting demonstrations at Schools and Community events.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Sheriff Joe Hanna extends his deepest gratitude to Emmaus Animal Hospital, Drs. Arthur F.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Obenrader, VMD and Richard Grgurich, VMD for their expert and passionate care throughout Nevie\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Contributed article<\/p>\n<p>Contributed photosNevie with complete kit.<\/p>\n<p>Sherrid Hanna, Deputy Garner and Nevie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published May 26. 2026 03:19PM The Lehigh County Sheriff\u2019s Office sadly reports the passing of retired K-9 \u201cNevie.\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-202764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}