Curry County Sheriff's K-9 Unit

06/26/2023

I wanted to let everyone know that we so appreciate all your thoughtful and heartfelt condolences for the loss of K-9 Deputy Nero. Our post went viral and there were hundreds of comments. You all need to know how much that means to us and especially Deputy Tim King, who was Nero’s partner. Thank you all for your kind words of encouragement as well. We had Nero cremated and had an urn for Nero engraved by Wally and Matt of Hartman’s Custom Cabinets. What an amazing job they did. Wally wouldn’t accept payment, he and Matt donated their time in designing the engraving. Thank you Wally and Matt.

06/21/2023

06/05/2022

Our sheriff’s office got invited to the Coos-Curry Electric Cooperative, Inc. safety camp for the youth in our communities. K9 Axel was asked to do a demonstration…. And we said ABSOLUTELY!

Thank you Brad Alcorn, Curry County Search & Rescue, Coos-Curry Electric and our deputies for helping out today! 🐶🚔🐾

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05/24/2022

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05/21/2022

I had to get my picture taken with these cool jet boats 🐶

Have a fun weekend & be safe curry county!

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05/19/2022

K9 Nero and K9 Axel getting some training in! Thanks to the folks of Pistol River Friendship Club for allowing us to use your property 🚔🐾👮‍♂️🐶

04/27/2022

K9 Stryker showed off his skills to the Gold Beach kiddos! 🚔🐾 Our K9’s love to interact with the community and show how important they are to keeping Curry County safe 🐶

04/22/2022

Happy Friday from K9 Axel! ☀️ 🚔🐾

04/08/2022

A sunny day and K9 Nero… Our K9’s are loving this warm weather!! 😁🐾☀️

04/07/2022

K9 Stryker and the team spent the evening at Winchuck River park doing some training 🐾

04/01/2022

Our K9 team would like to give a big thank you to Brad Alcorn. After 34 years as a police officer, Brad moved to Curry County for retirement, and has volunteered his time to coach our K9 teams. Thank you for giving us your knowledge & time for 4 years now! Our K-9 unit’s progression & success would not be possible without several community members donating time and funds to keep our K9’s geared up & ready to serve our county 🚔🐾

03/30/2022

As summer is rapidly approaching, our K9’s are training hard on our beautiful Chetco River. Our K9’s are often tasked to help with missing persons, lost persons, or to find evidence/articles. This scenario was a missing person and the article was a life vest. Good job finding it K9Axel! 🐾🚔🐾

03/30/2022

Sheriff Ward and our awesome Deputies attended career day at Gold Beach High School! Students got to pet our K9 ‘s and check out are equipment. We work in such a great community 🐾🚔

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03/23/2022

Class in Session! 📚
K9 Nero demonstrating his skills to our Curry County Youth! Part of being a K9 officer is attending public events & visiting schools to show what we do and how amazing K9’s are! Good work Team 🤜🏼🤛🏼

03/17/2022

K9 Axel and K9 Stryker checked these incoming packages for narcotics! No, we did not find anything but that is good news 😁 We are so lucky to have shipping company’s that have a desire to keep our community safe!

03/16/2022

🚨K9 Spotlight🚨

Our last K9 to introduce is K9 Axel! K9 Axel is handled by Deputy Stout. K9 Axel is a Belgian Malinois and his commands are in French. K9 Axel specializes as a narcotic detection K9 and a patrol K9. K9 Axel loves hanging out with his family and saying stuff with a French accent 😂

Don’t forget to like, share, and say hi to our K9 Teams out in the community now that you know us!

03/15/2022

🚨K9 Spotlight 🚨

Hi Curry County friends! Meet our K9 Stryker and his handler Deputy Vershall. K9 Stryker is a black lab and his commands are in English. K9 Stryker specializes in Narcotic Detection & Search/Rescue. K9 Stryker is FEMA search/rescue certified. K9 Stryker enjoys the Rogue River, camping, and a good ole’ game of fetch on his days off 🐾

In a future post we will talk about the importance of Narcotic Detection, K9’s work on patrol, and other skills our K9’s have 😁 Thanks for supporting our page and liking/sharing. You guys Rock!!

03/14/2022

🚔🐾K9 Axel Deployment🐾🚔

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From the desk of
SHERIFF JOHN WARD
CURRY COUNTY, OREGON
94235 MOORE STREET, SUITE 311
29808 Colvin Street (Physical)
GOLD BEACH, OR 97444
(541) 247-3221 - FAX: 541-247-6893
[email protected]

03-14-2022

On Friday, March 11, 2022, at approximately 12:38pm, thirty-two-year-old William Stringham of Brookings was arrested in the Port of Brookings Harbor following an altercation with Port of Brookings Harbor employees, where one of the employees was head butted by Stringham. When Deputies arrived on scene, Stringham ran onto the commercial docks and boarded a commercial fishing vessel. Stringham refused to obey orders to exit from the vessel. During the standoff, deputies learned that there was a firearm on the vessel and that Stringham had access to numerous items on the vessel that could be used as a dangerous or deadly weapon. Ultimately K-9 Axel was deployed by his handler, Deputy Jacob Stout. Stringham was taken to the deck of the boat by K-9 Axel. Stringham continued to resist and after a brief struggle with deputies, Stringham was taken into custody. Stringham was taken to Curry General Hospital where his bite injuries were treated. Stringham was then lodged in the Curry County Jail on charges of Harassment, Disorderly Conduct, Menacing and Resisting arrest.

03/11/2022

K9 Team Spotlight 🐾🚔

Hey Curry County Residents we would like to introduce K9 Nero to you! Although our K9’s have been serving our great community for several years, we would like to share some facts about each K9!

K9 Nero is handled by CCSO Deputy King. K9 Nero is a German Shepard and his commands are in German. K9 Nero is specially trained in Patrol & Narcotics. K9 Nero loves to play ball and enjoying our awesome beaches!

Say hello to one of our awesome K9 Teams! 😁

03/10/2022

Thank you all for supporting our K9’s! Be sure to like our page to keep up with our K9’s and the great work they are doing!

Do you have a business or a vacant building in Curry County? Our K9 unit is always looking for new environments to train in! Putting our K9’s in new environments is important because it creates new obstacles, challenges, and scenarios to help us prepare for whatever the next call may bring.

Our K9 Unit is looking for volunteer agitators! An agitator is a person who plays “suspect” in our training scenarios. Agitators are a huge part in the success of our K9’s. We are lucky to have community members volunteering each week to help us. We provide the training & equipment to keep our agitators and our K9’s safe!

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02/17/2022

K9 Axel Locates Gun After Foot Pursuit!

On 2/16/22 during the late evening hours, a Curry County Deputy & a Gold Beach officer-initiated contact with a potentially armed suspect in Gold Beach. The suspect fled on foot and led our deputy on a lengthy foot pursuit thru several storage units & an apartment complex. The suspect discarded a loaded firearm somewhere in the foot pursuit with the Deputy. Other Deputies & Officers surrounded the area and assisted with the foot pursuit which led to a successful arrest. K9 Axel was called out to locate the firearm.

Our K9’s has several skills and one of them is the ability to locate articles such as weapons and other types of evidence. K9 Axel and his handler responded to the scene and began his article search into the night. K9 Axel successfully located the loaded firearm. K9 Axel did a great job keeping our community safe and locating a critical piece of evidence!

Good Work to all involved!
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