{"id":11685,"date":"2025-02-03T08:45:59","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T13:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/police\/?p=11685"},"modified":"2025-02-04T10:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T15:08:11","slug":"passing-of-retired-k-9-officer-argo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/police\/passing-of-retired-k-9-officer-argo\/","title":{"rendered":"Passing of Retired K-9 Officer Argo"},"content":{"rendered":"

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January 31st, 2025<\/p>\n

With heavy hearts, we share the news of the passing of Retired K-9 Officer Argo on January 30th, 2025, at the age of 13. Argo faithfully served the Columbus Police Department and the City of Columbus alongside his partner and handler, Officer Branch Schrader, from 2012 until his retirement in April 2024. In retirement, Argo was able to enjoy his days as a beloved companion to Officer Schrader.<\/p>\n

Over his remarkable 12 years of service, Argo, a German Shepherd\/Belgian Malinois mix, was responsible for 482 arrests and 443 narcotics seizures. He completed nearly 3,000 hours of training, 105 building searches, and assisted in over 150 tracks, including helping to find missing children. His dedication, loyalty, and skill made him invaluable to his fellow officers.<\/p>\n

Those who had the privilege of working with Argo knew he was not just a K-9\u2014he was trusted team member and protector. He will be deeply missed by all who knew him.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-09 14:48:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/police\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/police\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/police\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/police\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/police\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/police\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/police\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/police\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/police\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}