He's looking to get his reward, his towel out of it. It's a game." Hugo has logged some serious miles on his way to becoming the Bethlehem Township Police Department's newest K-9 officer. The 3-year-old Belgian Malinois-German shepherd mix was imported from Holland, trained with the U.S. Army Rangers at Fort Benning, Georgia, and deployed for six months to Afghanistan. From there, it was on to Joint Base Lewis-McChord outside Seattle, where he became available for donation because of downsizing of the military K-9 corps, said his handler, township police officer Bryan Tollinger. Hugo's specialty is explosives detection, something Tollinger has not had to use since the pair began...
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