{"id":287833,"date":"2026-05-11T11:41:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T11:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/287833\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T11:41:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T11:41:17","slug":"eppd-k-9-celebrates-6th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/287833\/","title":{"rendered":"EPPD K-9 celebrates 6th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:KTSM;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"KTSM\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/232C1E841BC0BB863E0E9B74B574D5BADEBDCEDD7912DF6C56EBCD799BAD61E9\/subgraphmysterio\/resizefill_w0_h40;quality_80;format_webp\/\"\/><\/a>Fri, May 8, 2026 at 8:41 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_ktsm_articles_935\/b5bf8cd0edfde8de2fb1bd2f2debc82e.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>EL PASO, Texas (<a data-ylk=\"slk:KTSM;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ktsm.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">KTSM<\/a>) \u2014 An El Paso Police Department K-9 is celebrating his 6th birthday!<\/p>\n<p>K-9 Fox is celebrating his birthday with his handler, Officer Patrick Pacheco and the Patrol K-9 Unit on Friday, May 8.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_ktsm_articles_935\/d8ce9de9d2e1131e1b6b193cc8ad0f48.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>K-9 Fox. Photos courtesy of the El Paso Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cK-9 Fox has proudly served with dedication, loyalty and courage every stop of the way. Here\u2019s to many more years of service, treats and tail wags!\u201d EPPD said in a <a data-ylk=\"slk:social media post;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/18iBEgbCG3\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">social media post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fri, May 8, 2026 at 8:41 PM UTC EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) \u2014 An El Paso Police Department&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[105525,138,140,139,2263,21377,105526,27],"class_list":["post-287833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-6th-birthday","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-el-paso-police-department","tag-eppd","tag-patrick-pacheco","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}