Dogs sniff out drugs, needles, bong at LI schools
Quick ReadDrug-sniffing dogs found marijuana, needles and a bong at LI schools.
Photo credit: Newsday/Photo by James Carbone | Riverhead K-9 officer Jon Doscinski, with his partner Vaki, work out at the Canine Unit in Yaphank where the dog is being trained. Police are training him to be a drug dog.
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Drug-sniffing dogs in Long Island schools found dime bags of marijuana, heroin needles, a 4-foot bong and trace amounts of heroin and cocaine last school year, according to school officials and the two companies that do the bulk of the searches.
In some cases, the dogs found actual drugs, but in other cases they picked up on a residual scent, meaning drugs might have been there.
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