{"id":257961,"date":"2026-08-02T22:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T22:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/257961\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T22:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T22:55:08","slug":"ligonier-valley-police-department-introduces-newest-k-9-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/257961\/","title":{"rendered":"Ligonier Valley Police Department introduces newest K-9 officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ligonier Valley Police Department has recently introduced its newest member: a new K-9 officer.<\/p>\n<p>The four-legged officer, Mytus, is a 17-month-old Dutch shepherd from Poland, the department announced in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/1H7XPRFjqi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-absolute=\"true\">social media post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The department said Mytus is still in training, but the public will be able to see him on Aug. 4 during the department&#8217;s National Night Out activities.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/762689832-1551038477064227-39643197956598862-n.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"762689832-1551038477064227-39643197956598862-n.jpg \" height=\"465\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  The Ligonier Valley Police Department has recently introduced its newest K-9 officer, Mytus.<\/p>\n<p>                Ligonier Valley Police Department<\/p>\n<p>Once training is complete, Mytus will join Sgt. James Friscarella as a patrol and narcotics K-9.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ligonier Valley Police Department has recently introduced its newest member: a new K-9 officer. The four-legged officer,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74,5910],"class_list":["post-257961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-westmoreland-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257961","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=257961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}