SSGT. Joshua Brandon Farnsworth
SSGT Farnsworth was an explosive military working dog handler in the United States Air Force at Fairchild AFB, Washington and also served in the United States Marine Corps as Military Police at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina and Okinawa, Japan. He was a
Army Cpl. Kory D. Wiens
Wiens and his dog were trained to find materials such as TNT, detonation cords, smokeless powder, mortars, weapons, tools and explosive residue used to make explosives. Kory enlisted into the Army to gain experience for pursuing a career in law enforcement. He attended canine school at the 341st Training Squadron, Lackland Air Force Base in […]
Officer Curtis James Gooden
Curtis James Gooden Jr., 38, of Texarkana, Texas, died July 29, 2007, in Murfreesboro, Ark. He was a K-9 officer with Texarkana Independent School District Police Department in Texas. He died off duty during a motorcycle ride with a small party of riders on Arkansas Highway 27 North near Kirby. The accident happened at 12:28 […]
Sgt. Matthew Peake
Deputy Peake, 24, died on 8/5/07 when he became trapped in a house fire at 4:00 a.m. which claimed his life in Winnsboro, Wisconsin. An investigation showed he was sleeping in the bedroom at the time and was trying to escape to a door. His wife and two children were not home at the time […]
SSGT. Charles Mike Long
SSgt. Charles Long, 30, died on September 3, 2007 from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident. He was a K9 handler with the 822d SFS and then transferred to the 824 SFS. Stationed at Moody Air Force Base in Valdosta, Georgia. At Lackland Air Force Base he was the Team Leader of Specialized Search Dog […]
Agent Julio E. Baray
Agent Baray was taking pilot training from Agent Houting at the time, practicing take-offs and landings. Investigators are not sure what caused the plane to go down, but it went off the runway and caught fire.
Officer Darrell Burris
Video Officer Darrell Burris, 37, died in a car accident on November 15, 2007 while off duty in Carmel, New York. The accident happened at 6:45 p.m. on Drewville Road when he lost control of his personal 2003 Toyota SUV vehicle and veered into an on coming SUV driven by 29-year-old Adam Warm of Patterson, […]
Sheriff Deputy Anthony Sean Pursifull
on January 10, 2008 following an early morning police chase in Pineville, Kentucky. The incident unfolded when David J. Poppiti, the driver age17, from New Castle, Delaware and Eric J. Gerren, 16, from Lincoln University, Pennsylvania drove off from a Exxon gas station in Harlan County Kentucky without paying $37.95 at 12:35 a.m. The teens then drove away from […]
Staff Sgt. Donald Theronnie Tabb
He was a dog handler serving in Afghanistan with the Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force. Tabb worked as a dog handler with a 2 year old black Labrador bomb sniffing dog named “Bo” who was injured in the attack that killed Tabb, but survived. His K-9 partner “Bo” was wounded above his left eye […]
Corporal Mark Anthony Beck
Results of an autopsy showed Beck suffered multi-system trauma in which several of Beck’s internal organs were damaged in the crash. Police are examining Beck’s patrol car to make sure there were no mechanical flaws that contributed to the crash but their investigation is incomplete. At the time of the accident, Cpl. Beck did not […]
