Grosse Pointe Farms Police K-9 Helps Nab Home Invasion Suspects

A Grosse Pointe Farms K-9 unit - aka a police dog - assisted Harper Woods police searching for suspects in a home invasion Jan. 2, according to the Grosse Pointe Times. The dog and handler were asked to assist after one suspect in a home invasion and shooting of a dog managed to flee and elude police. The incident occurred Jan 2. around 8 p.m. in the 19700 block of Country Club in Harper Woods.

Two men with forced their way into a Harper Woods home, demanding the occupants show them where marijuana and money were hidden. When the homeowner’s dog attacked the intruders, one of them shot and wounded it (the dog is expected to recover). After the shooting, visitors at the home led the suspects to money and a garbage bag of marijuana in the house’s basement. Harper Woods officers responded to the scene with their own K-9, Kaiser and his handler Officer Steve Johnson, who apprehended one of the suspects almost immediately. The other man remained at large, so Harper Woods asked for assistance from Grosse Pointe Farms, who dispatched their K-9, Duke and his handler, Officer Tim Harris.

The suspect was eventually located ten houses away from the scene of the invasion. Duke helped lead officer to a bag of marijuana and to the suspect, who was trying to hide on a front porch. On Friday, Jan. 5, the suspects were charged with numerous counts related to the home invasion. Michael Jason Gadie, 42, of Warren, and Timothy Wade Horton, 48, of Detroit face charges of armed robbery, home invasion and delivery/manufacture of marijuana/synthetic equivalents, among others. Gadie alone faces a count of torturing/killing animals for shooting the homeowner’s dog.

Read full coverage of this story in the Grosse Pointe News.

Photo of Duke and Officer Tim Harris via City of Grosse Pointe Farms.