Died 5\/23\/17
\nHandler – Officer Stephen Kingsley<\/p>\n
Bridgewater K-9 cop Dunaj will be missed<\/p>\n
The Bridgewater Police Department\u2019s 13-year-old K9 Dunaj, who helped in the search for one of the Boston Marathon bombers, has passed away, the police department tweeted Tuesday morning. \u201cNot all heroes are humans,\u201d the police department Tweeted. Along with a career of searching for suspects and sniffing for illegal drugs, in 2013 Dunaj and K-9 Unit Officer Stephen Kingsley had responded, with other SEMLEC SWAT officers, to the UMASS Dartmouth campus to search for the second Boston Bombing suspect, later identified as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. According to Bridgewater Police Chief Christopher Delmonte\u2019s Annual Town Report in 2013, Dunaj had completed his eighth year of \u201coutstanding search and support services to the department.\u201d During the 2013 report, Delmonte also announced that Dunaj was approaching the end of his service life and would be replaced the following year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Died 5\/23\/17 Handler – Officer Stephen Kingsley Bridgewater K-9 cop Dunaj will be missed The Bridgewater Police Department\u2019s 13-year-old K9 Dunaj, who helped in the search for one of the Boston Marathon bombers, has passed away, the police department tweeted Tuesday morning. \u201cNot all heroes are humans,\u201d the police department Tweeted. Along with a career …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3351,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-3348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-k9memorial","tag-ma"],"yoast_head":"\n