K9

Sgt. Forbes and Champ received the James Griffith Memorial Canine Team of the Year award in 2017.

Jazz and Deputy Sheriff Nathan Chisholm joined the Aroostook County Sheriff’s Office in January 2020.

Maine Game Wardens and other emergency personnel searched the area near the beach, while marine patrol searched the bay with several watercraft.

With training complete, Officer Chisholm and K9 Jazz will serve the citizens of Van Buren.

The canine served with the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, and was laid to rest on September 20, 2018.

A K9 named, Winger, helped locate a man with dementia who went missing from his Southwest Harbor home for about six hours on September 22nd.