(FOX40.COM) — Two men were arrested and a dog was shot after it attacked a deputy’s canine during a drug bust in Keyes on Thursday, deputies said.
The Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Office pulled over a vehicle Thursday morning when deputies smelled marijuana and saw marijuana plants “behind a fence” at a house in the 5500 block of Washington Road, the sheriff’s office said. Their observations gave them reason to search the home on a warrant at approximately 8:45 a.m.
Once on the property, SCSO found a “large outdoor marijuana cultivation operation,” the sheriff’s office said. After finding the illegal farm, deputies surrounded the home and asked the occupants to come outside. SWAT appears to have been dispatched to assist deputies.
One man refused to leave the home, so deputies went inside and found him with a “large dog.” The dog attacked a sheriff’s office K-9 unit, and a deputy shot and injured the “aggressive” animal, SCSO said…