K-9 Officer Perez and her partner K-9 Zero assisted an outside agency during a vehicle stop. K-9 Zero then alerted to the vehicle, according to the Placentia Police Department.
In police terminology, an “alert” (also called a “hit”) is a behavioral change the dog is trained to perform—such as sitting, barking, or scratching—when it identifies a specific odor it was trained to find, typically narcotics or explosives.
A subsequent search of the vehicle led to the discovery of approximately 38 pounds of methamphetamine with an estimated street value of $30,000…