{"id":419837,"date":"2026-08-29T03:20:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T03:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/419837\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T03:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T03:20:14","slug":"new-k9-police-team-takes-over-at-el-paso-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/419837\/","title":{"rendered":"New K9 police team takes over at El Paso airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"616\" height=\"344\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/ktsm_articles_153\/70d8f55f1799487b44635d1f56214521.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">EL PASO, Texas (<a data-ylk=\"slk:KTSM;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">KTSM<\/a>) &#8212; The El Paso International Airport is getting a new K9 duo from the El Paso Police Department that is tasked with sniffing out crime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officer Martin Martinez and his new K9 partner Odi recently graduated from a rigorous 12-week Transporation Safety Administration Explosives Detection Canine Handler Course.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"576\" height=\"720\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/ktsm_articles_153\/47e20c640fdd75f2588707b040720afb.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officer Martinez excelled throughout the academic and practical training, even earning the honor of class leader, the El Paso Police Department said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">After local acclimation and final duty certification, this team will work to help keep the airport and the El Paso community safe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Also, Sgt. David Flores was chosen from K9 supervisors nationwide to serve as the keynote speaker at the graduation ceremony.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Sgt. Flores represented our city and department with absolute distinction,&#8221; the social media post said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<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;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) &#8212; The El Paso International Airport is getting a new K9 duo from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,1110,139,10195,14443,498,499,146222,6259],"class_list":["post-419837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-international-airport","tag-el-paso-news","tag-flores","tag-k9","tag-ktsm","tag-ktsm-9-news","tag-martin-martinez","tag-martinez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419837","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=419837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}