Crime & Safety

State Police K9 Roxy Tracks Gun Used in Attleboro Robbery

State Police said Roxy tracked a gun hidden under some leaves, and pounced on it, that was suspected of being used in an Attleboro crime.

State Police said Roxy tracked a gun hidden under some leaves, and pounced on it, that was suspected of being used in an Attleboro crime.
State Police said Roxy tracked a gun hidden under some leaves, and pounced on it, that was suspected of being used in an Attleboro crime. (Massachusetts State Police)

ATTLEBORO, MA — Seventy years after Annie got her gun in the Annie Oakley motion picture biopic, State Police K9 Roxy did her best Judy Garland impression in Attleboro on Saturday. State Police said Sgt. Gary Berlo and Roxy responded to help Attleboro police locate a weapon used in a robbery and was quickly able to locate the gun suspected of being used in the crime.

State Police said Roxy was deployed to the area where the suspect fled, tracked to a nearby yard and alerted to an object under a pile of leaves, and sat down right on top of the gun.

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