The Mercer County K-9 team and a bloodhound named Goose located a 42-year-old missing Robbinsville woman earlier this week.
The Robbinsville Police Department requested the assistance of the Mercer County Sheriff’s Office K-9 Unit to help locate a distraught female on the evening of Feb. 11. The woman was missing from her residence in the vicinity of Meadowbrook Road.
Soon after the search operation began, Goose, the sheriff’s office bloodhound, picked up a scent and tracked the subject through an open field, a horse pasture, and located her 35-40 feet inside of a bamboo grove.
The subject, whose name is intentionally withheld, was treated by local EMS and reunited with her family. K-9 Sheriff’s Officer David Smithson, along with officers from the Robbinsville Police Department, managed the search.
Established in 1993, the Mercer County Sheriff’s Office K-9 Unit serves as an added
component of law enforcement to assist local towns and municipalities on a moment’s notice. Kemler said that the unit has grown into a highly trained law enforcement unit specializing in the pursuit of missing persons, criminal searches, explosive detection and tracking. The Sheriff’s Office K-9 Bloodhound team averages over 50 searches per year.
