K-9s impress Cascades veterans

Photo courtesy of St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office K-9 Unit leader Sgt. Anthony Cavallaro, right, supervises a recent K-9 demonstration showing how a suspect is “taken down.”

Photo courtesy of St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office
St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office K-9 Unit leader Sgt. Anthony Cavallaro, right, supervises a recent K-9 demonstration showing how a suspect is “taken down.”

Mary Kemper
Staff Writer
A three-man team from the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office gave a demonstration with two of their K-9 unit dogs, including a simulated “takedown” of a “suspect,” at the Oct. 15 meeting of the Cascades Veterans Club of the Cascades of St. Lucie West.
Sgt. Tony Cavallaro, assisted by Deputies Marc Geisler and Brandon Nuccio, showed how the highly trained dogs acted on command.
The demonstration also included how, in addition to taking down criminal suspects, the dogs are trained to sniff out narcotics.
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