DPS graduates nine new K-9 teams statewide

Special to the Bulletin

AUSTIN — The Texas Department of Public Safety has graduated nine new K-9 teams and four certified K-9 tech trainers, who will now be deployed across the state to support narcotics and explosives detection, tracking operations and other law enforcement efforts.

The graduating class includes six narcotics detection teams: Trooper Ernesto Guzman and K-9 Eddy; Trooper Gumecindo Rocha and K-9 Ronin; Trooper Jared Conaway and K-9 Ares; Trooper Kenneth Gibson and K-9 Jeta; Trooper Marlen Vasquez-Trevino and K-9 Zeus; and Trooper Riley Cooper and K-9 Venom.