Rookie Weymouth Police K9 Leaps Into Action In Home Invasion Case

WEYMOUTH, MA — Weymouth police are crediting one of the department's newest members for lending a paw to a recent arrest. In just the second day on the job for Weymouth Police K9 Ghandi when police responded to a report of a home invasion on Green Street. Ghandi helped locate one of the suspects in a neighboring yard.

Officer Chris Deangelo and Ghandi recently completed the 16-week Patrol K9 Academy where police said they became proficient in all aspects of the K9 Patrol function, including tracking, apprehension, and building and area searches.

Police said they witnessed two suspects running toward Shaw Street when they arrived at the Green Street home invasion and were able to track one of them in the snow with Ghandi's help. Jeffrey Anitus, of Brockton, was arrested in a Sunset Drive backyard and charged with home invasion, robbery with a firearm while armed and masked, larceny, assault with a dangerous weapon and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.

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