The Brunswick County North Carolina Sheriff’s Office lost one of its top dogs Saturday to cocaine poisoning from a package allegedly dropped by drug suspects.
K-9 Viper was memorialized by about 200 county employees and law enforcement officers Tuesday morning during services in front of the county courthouse. A Belgian Malinois and one of the office’s eight police dogs, Viper became the county’s first, and nation’s second, police dog killed in the line of duty this year.
