Riverside's Child Exploitation Team latest hires are Solo and Chewie. They work together to uncover child pornography evidence.
, are both trained to find electronic devices – anything from phones and tablets to storage devices and hard drives. They can allegedly hunt down anything with a memory card, which, according to their law enforcement handlers, give off a specific scent that these dogs are trained to sniff out.
When officers couldn't find the electronic devices noted in a search warrant served in Indio last week,. Within minutes, Solo detected two phones that were buried deep in a pot in the suspect's backyard. So far, this Riverside task force has served over 400 search warrants this year. And with the help of these K9s, they've arrested more than 90 suspects., as the evidence they find is vital to getting child predators off the streets. Around town, they're becoming quite the stars, just like their heroic Star Wars namesakes.
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