DENVER (KDVR) — A team member with the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office celebrated her 32nd birthday on Saturday — well, in dog years.
The sheriff’s office said their very own K-9 Lucca, a Dutch shepherd, turned 4 years old Saturday.
According to the sheriff’s office, Lucca is one of the few K-9s in Colorado or across the country trained in electronics detection in order to find cell phones, thumb drives, SIM cards and hard drives during an investigation.
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Lucca is one of several canines part of the agency’s K-9 unit, which includes German Shepherds that are trained to detect narcotics and a Belgian Shepherd trained to find explosives, according to the sheriff’s office website.
“She can launch herself over obstacles with the kind of airtime that makes superheroes jealous and will chase a ball much longer than her handler can throw it,” said the sheriff’s office on X…