Died – 3\/6\/17
\nHandler – Officer Kris Hopkins<\/p>\n
State College police K9 Keno passes away in his home<\/p>\n
The last police dog for the State College Police Department passed away Monday. The German Shepard began his career in May 2008 in Happy Valley and retired in September 2013 with his handler Kris Hopkins, according to a release from Hopkins, who retired at the same time. He was a narcotic detection dog up until he retired in September 2013. Keno’s career was highlighted when he helped apprehend Max Illiarnov in March 2010. That ended a two year investigation into many serious crimes committed by Illiarnov and his conspirators. After K9 Keno retired from police work the police department transferred his ownership to Kris Hopkins, who started work in the area as a pet behavior consultant. Keno began helping pets in the State College area that had behavioral problems like fear aggression by being an obedient, neutral dog to help calm client dogs while their owners helped their pets make positive associations with another dog. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Died – 3\/6\/17 Handler – Officer Kris Hopkins State College police K9 Keno passes away in his home The last police dog for the State College Police Department passed away Monday. The German Shepard began his career in May 2008 in Happy Valley and retired in September 2013 with his handler Kris Hopkins, according to …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-2977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-k9memorial","tag-pa"],"yoast_head":"\n