{"id":419585,"date":"2026-08-28T21:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T21:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/419585\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T21:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T21:12:08","slug":"k9-odi-el-paso-police-airport-add-new-bomb-dog-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/419585\/","title":{"rendered":"K9 Odi: El Paso police, airport add new bomb dog team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 El Paso police and the airport are celebrating a new K9 explosives team. <\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the El Paso Police Department took to social media to congratulate Officer Martinez and his new K9 partner Odi for graduating from the 12-week TSA Explosives Detection Canine Handler Course. <\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/news\/local\/staff-member-bitten-by-snake-at-lundy-elementary-school-says?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Snake bite incident prompts safety measures at Lundy Elementary, officials say<\/a><\/p>\n<p> According to EPPD, Martinez earned the honor of class leader for his academic and practical training performance. <\/p>\n<p>Along with congratulating Martinez and Odi, EPPD also gave a &#8220;shoutout&#8221; to Sgt. Flores, who was chosen to serve as the keynote speaker at the graduation ceremony, from all the K9 supervisors in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/news\/local\/authorities-seek-suspect-who-abandoned-a-tied-up-dog-in-south-central-el-paso?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Authorities seek suspect who abandoned a tied-up dog in South Central El Paso<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 El Paso police and the airport are celebrating a new K9 explosives team.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-419585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419585","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=419585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}