{"id":203572,"date":"2026-05-27T15:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T15:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/203572\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T15:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T15:30:09","slug":"end-of-watch-for-k-9-nevie-lehigh-valley-press-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/203572\/","title":{"rendered":"End of watch for K-9 Nevie \u2013 Lehigh Valley Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published May 27. 2026 10:10AM<\/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 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 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 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. Obenrader, VMD and Richard Grgurich, VMD for their expert and passionate care throughout Nevie\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p>CONTRIBUTED PHOTOSRetired K-9 \u201cNevie,\u201d a German Shepherd imported from Germany, is shown in her working gear while at the Lehigh County Sheriff\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>K-9 handler Deputy Richard Garner, Sheriff Joe Hanna and Nevie are pictured shortly after Nevie\u2019s arrival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published May 27. 2026 10:10AM The Lehigh County Sheriff\u2019s Office sadly reports the passing of retired K-9 \u201cNevie.\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-203572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203572","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=203572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}