{"id":42868,"date":"2024-03-13T15:28:40","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T19:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=42868"},"modified":"2024-03-13T15:28:45","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T19:28:45","slug":"polk-county-sheriffs-office-bloodhound-safely-locates-missing-man-with-autism-using-a-pillow-to-track-the-scent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2024\/03\/13\/polk-county-sheriffs-office-bloodhound-safely-locates-missing-man-with-autism-using-a-pillow-to-track-the-scent\/","title":{"rendered":"Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office bloodhound safely locates missing man with autism using a pillow to track the scent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

You typically don\u2019t want to be featured on one of the stock cards Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd puts on display, but when one of his deputies and K-9 partner graced the front of the iconic images, it wasn’t because they earned a trip to the \u2018Grady Town\u2019 jail. Instead, they were being praised by the sheriff. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A bloodhound with the Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office and his deputy partner are being hailed as heroes after the pair safely located a missing Lakeland man with autism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Judd, the\u00a0Lakeland\u00a0Police Department searched through the night to locate the missing and endangered man who wandered away from his home in the dark without his glasses or shoes but couldn\u2019t find him.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

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Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd holds up an image of K-9 Wyatt and Deputy Rimes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Officers requested help from the PCSO and that\u2019s when K-9 Wyatt and Deputy Rimes joined the search. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

K-9 Wyatt acquired the missing man\u2019s scent from a pillowcase and got to work. The bloodhound tracked the scent through the city streets and safely located him. <\/p>\n\n\n

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The image is courtesy of the Polk County Sheriff’s Office.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

K-9 Wyatt and Deputy Rimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“He had a ten-hour head start,” explained Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd. “The good news is he\u2019s home and he\u2019s well and he\u2019s healthy and that\u2019s our four-legged friend that made all that happen.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You typically don\u2019t want to be featured on one of the stock cards Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd puts on display, but when one of his deputies and K-9 partner graced the… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[7804],"class_list":["post-42868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sheriffs-corner","tag-polk-county-sheriffs-office-bloodhound-safely-locates-missing-man"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}