{"id":9681,"date":"2013-09-25T11:04:32","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T18:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/man-stabs-kent-police-dog\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T09:10:36","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T16:10:36","slug":"man-stabs-kent-police-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/man-stabs-kent-police-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Man stabs Kent Police dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>A man stabbed and injured a Kent Police dog during an assistance response to a Des Moines Police assault case.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>A K-9 officer and his German shepherd partner Kato were requested to respond to Des Moines to assist in attempting to locate an assault suspect at about 6:41 p.m. Tuesday, according to a Kent Police media release.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>During the course of the tracking, Kato located the suspect. As Kato attempted to assist with taking the man into custody, he unexpectedly stabbed K-9 Kato in the shoulder with a pocket knife.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Officers were able to get the man in custody, and immediate attention was given to Kato. Kato was transported to a veterinary clinic where he underwent surgery before being released Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&#8220;He is doing well,&#8221; said Kent detective Melanie Frazier. &#8220;He got a lot of love from the vet staff overnight, and will get a bunch more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Kato has been working on the force for nearly two years and has assisted in numerous apprehensions of suspects.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u201cThe suspect\u2019s actions (Tuesday) could have easily resulted in deadly consequences,&#8221; Frazier said. &#8220;Incidents such as this remind us of how dangerous an officer\u2019s job can be and the risks we encounter every day.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man stabbed and injured a Kent Police dog during an assistance response to a Des Moines Police assault case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":9682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-9681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9681"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9681"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=9681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}