{"id":29523,"date":"2025-10-31T15:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T15:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/29523\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T15:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T15:32:07","slug":"lubbock-sheriffs-office-k9-dies-unexpectedly-during-training-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/29523\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock Sheriff\u2019s Office K9 dies unexpectedly during training exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; A K9 who served with the Lubbock County Sheriff\u2019s Office unexpectedly passed away after suffering a medical emergency during a routine training exercise Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">K9 Arlo served the county since 2021. A Belgian Malinois, Arlo was certified as a dual-purpose dog and specialized in apprehension of offenders and the detection of narcotics. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">After he was selected by the LSO, K9 Arlo was assigned to the Texas Anti-Gang Center with his handler. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">LSO says he was the oldest active duty working dog at seven years old. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On October 28, during a routine training exercise with his handler, K9 Arlo was rushed to an emergency veterinarian but unfortunately passed away. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Arlo has been transferred to a specialist to determine his cause of death. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">At his handler\u2019s request, LSO held an honor walk for K9 Arlo on October 30. A final resting ceremony for Arlo has not yet been set.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Condolence cards can be sent to 712 Broadway, Lubbock County 79401. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; A K9 who served with the Lubbock County Sheriff\u2019s Office unexpectedly passed away after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[14443,19889,319,251,19890,168,19888,170,169],"class_list":["post-29523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-k9","tag-k9-arlo","tag-kcbd","tag-local-news","tag-lso","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-county-sheriffs-office","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29523","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=29523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}