K-9 Saves Deputy From Near Deadly Roadside Ambush
A Mississippi K-9 is being hailed a hero after saving his deputy from a near deadly roadside ambush that occurred last week.
Deputy Todd Frazier was driving on a deserted road during his night shift on May 18 when he noticed a blue Lincoln Town Car with the lights off parked at a rest stop in Pearlington, Mississippi, CNN reports. Thinking the owner of the car might need help, Frazier stopped for a routine check.
Glenn Grannan, chief investigator with the Hancock County Sheriff’s Office, described the nightmare that then unfolded. As Frazier approached the car, two men came out from the woods, and along with the driver of the car, started attacking him.
“When he got out, two other people came out of the woods right by the vehicle, and he backed up and fell, and it was on then,” Sheriff Ricky Adam said.
“The deputy tripped and fell to the ground as he was backing away from the vehicle,” Grannan said. “That’s when all three male subjects, including the driver, ambushed him, cut him on the forehead with a sharp object and dragged him into the woods.”
“They told him they were going to slit his throat, and they were dragging him toward the woods,” Chief Deputy Don Bass said, adding that he believes they had planned on killing him in the woods and then dump the body, according to the Clarion-Ledger.
During the struggle, Frazier was somehow able to hit a remote control device that was around his neck that opened the back door of his cruiser. K-9 Officer Lucas, a black Belgian Malinois, frantically jumped out of the car and came to Frazier’s rescue. He managed to bite one of the attackers before they all three ran off.
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“The three of them were dragging him toward the wooded area, and he was able to break one hand free to activate the button that opens the door and it released Lucas,” Bass said.
The suspects fled in the car, believed to be a 2000 model, and Frazier was taken to Hancock Medical Center. Lucas was not injured.
Adams said he has been trying to prepare his deputies for the worst, given the country’s current outlook on police officers.
“We’ve been stressing this for months and months now. It’s no different from last week we get a BOLO from the state alerting us that the Black Gangster Disciples have put out an SOS, or ‘Shoot on Sight’ for police officers,” he said. “For a couple of months we’ve been preaching safety because we knew our location between New Orleans and on the I-10 corridor… it’s going to happen here.”
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