Died – 12\/6\/15
\nHandler – Officer Kevin Treworgy<\/p>\n
Former K-9, Henry, passes away<\/p>\n
Six months after retiring in April, former Shelby Township Police Department K-9 dog Henry succumbed to an aggressive infection Dec. 6 at age 11. Since November 2005, Henry lived and worked with his handler, patrolman Kevin Treworgy. The duo went on hundreds of raids, sniffed out the tracks of countless criminals and helped fight crime in a wide range of capacities. \u201cHe was an integral member of the department,\u201d Police Chief Robert Shelide said. \u201cHe was a valuable asset and one of the reasons that led me to pursue the purchase of (our newly sworn-in K-9) Morpheus.\u201d Treworgy said that since Henry\u2019s retirement April 17, he has been working quite a bit, so his daughter took Henry in, although he visited several times a week. After an infection worsened, a specialty veterinarian said it might be the result of a neurodegenerative disease or tumor. His family made the difficult decision to put him down after he was sedated for four to five days, Treworgy said. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t him. It sucked,\u201d Treworgy said. \u201cIt\u2019s just like putting down a family pet. It\u2019s never easy, but there comes a point you want him to go with some dignity as well.\u201d On Henry\u2019s first traffic stop, Treworgy said, Henry more than paid for himself. He located 12 bags of marijuana hidden in the driver\u2019s pants. Later, police found several more pounds of marijuana in the suspect\u2019s residence, plus a loaded gun and more than $100,000. Treworgy said a highlight of Henry\u2019s career was the retrieval of a bag of drugs that a suspect threw into a muddy, 100-foot-deep culvert during a foot chase \u2014 evidence that police needed to charge the suspect. In the months before Henry\u2019s retirement, Treworgy said, he and Henry stopped doing aggression work, or attacking pseudo \u201cbad guys,\u201d during his weekly training, and Treworgy stopped letting Henry jump over high fences. In his last months, Treworgy said, Henry enjoyed a laid-back lifestyle of being allowed on couches, napping in the sun and playing in the snow. Approximately 24 hours after the Shelby Township Police Department posted a tribute to Henry on its Facebook page, the status had 61,082 views, 1,343 likes and 434 shares, according to officer Leslie Heisler, who operates the department\u2019s Facebook account. Many Facebook users shared photos of Henry out in the community and expressed their condolences. \u201cHe was a great partner and served the department well,\u201d Treworgy said. \u201cWe got a lot of stuff done, got a lot of drugs off the street and took a lot of money from the drug dealers. He enjoyed doing it.\u201d On Dec. 1, Clerk Stan Grot swore in Henry\u2019s successor, Morpheus, a black German shepherd who has been partnered with officer Joseph Wojcik.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Died – 12\/6\/15 Handler – Officer Kevin Treworgy Former K-9, Henry, passes away Six months after retiring in April, former Shelby Township Police Department K-9 dog Henry succumbed to an aggressive infection Dec. 6 at age 11. Since November 2005, Henry lived and worked with his handler, patrolman Kevin Treworgy. The duo went on hundreds …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-k9memorial","tag-mi"],"yoast_head":"\n