FREDERICKTOWN — Three K-9s put in a hard day’s work at Fredericktown High School Friday morning.
K-9 units from the Danville and Mount Vernon police departments and the Ohio State Highway Patrol assisted the Fredericktown Police Department in a drug search of the classrooms and lockers.
“We try to one or two times a year randomly bring the dogs in to school mainly to be proactive, to let the staff and the students know that we are interested in making sure there are no drugs in the Fredericktown schools,” explained Fredericktown police chief Roger Brown. “Obviously, kids today are no different than they were years ago when it comes to smoking marijuana or using some of the other types of drugs, heroin and things like that. If we can do a little bit to try to stop some of that then we’ll do everything we can do to prevent it if we can.”
The search was not announced to the students and the school was put on lockdown for just under an hour while the K-9s and their handlers swept through the classrooms and hallways.
Ohio State Patrol K-9 Katie, a 2-year-old Belgian Malinois handled by Patrolman Matt Ruth, signaled at a set of lockers, but school administrators found nothing.
Brown said they received a few hits from the K-9s, but found nothing, indicating the dogs discovered residual smells.
