An employee of the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office celebrated his last shift Feb. 6, trading his drug-detecting talents for downtime with family.
Ozzie, an 8-year-old Dutch shepherd, spent eight years on the Gainesville-Alachua County Drug Task Force.
Ozzie’s owner, Sgt. Jeffrey Stadnicki, was recently promoted to night-shift sergeant, taking him out of the K-9 unit. Instead of retraining with a different handler, Ozzie will live out his days as a regular dog…