Handler – Deputy Adam Montgomery<\/p>\n
One of the southeast\u2019s most successful police K9s passes away at 14<\/strong><\/p>\n Coweta County deputies are mourning the loss of one the most successful K9s in the southeast.\u00a0Donja earned that title by winning a major police dog tracking competition in 2015.\u00a0After ten years of service and four years of retirement, she passed away this week at the age of 14, surrounded by the deputies she had served so faithfully. “You are with them more than your family,” said her partner Deputy Adam Montgomery.\u00a0 “You form an unbelievable bond with these dogs.” One of Donja\u2019s most successful cases came in 2014, when burglars smashed a car through the front windows of a Coweta County gun store and made off with $70,000 in firearms.\u00a0 It was Donja who discovered not only some of the guns that the thieves dropped in their getaway but also led investigators to a dropped cell phone.\u00a0 Coweta deputies and federal agents would later arrest the men involved from that evidence. They say a decade of work is an incredible length of service for a law enforcement K9.\u00a0 In that time she is credited with the seizure of large amounts of narcotics and successfully tracked more than 300 wanted criminals and missing people.\u00a0 An exceptional record for a K9 that lived an exceptionally long life and earned her retirement. “She was able to spend good time, relaxing time, family time with their family,” said Sheriff Lenn Wood.\u00a0 “She was part of their family and part of our family” In the past year, Deputy Montgomery says Donja\u2019s health had been slipping. These partners on the road for over a decade spent a day at the beach recently just weeks before her passing. “She just was looking out over the ocean, watching the waves,” Montgomery said. \u00a0“She really enjoyed it. \u00a0I am really happy that I had that chance to take her.” Donja will have her place now in Coweta County\u2019s K9 memorial at the sheriff\u2019s office \u00a0East Precinct.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Handler – Deputy Adam Montgomery One of the southeast\u2019s most successful police K9s passes away at 14 Coweta County deputies are mourning the loss of one the most successful K9s in the southeast.\u00a0Donja earned that title by winning a major police dog tracking competition in 2015.\u00a0After ten years of service and four years of retirement, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11093,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-11091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-k9memorial","tag-ga"],"yoast_head":"\n