Vohne Liche Kennels - Reko
If you have a lost K-9 partner that you would like to see on our memorial site, please contact us and we would be more than happy to place them along side those already here.
Thoughts of all K-9 handlers.
K-9 Handlers have a very special relationship with their dogs and over time that grows. They feel a great loss when something happens to their partner. This section is dedicated to those gone but not forgotten....
"He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion."
K-9 Reko
Handler - Ronnie Lindley
Wayne County Sheriff's Department mourns loss of K-9 Reko
2002 K-9 Reko was bought by the VFW Post 1108 Cost $10,500.00
Reko was imported from Holland by Vohne Liche Kennels in Denver Indiana.
June 29, 2009 Reko past away.
After 7 plus years of service with the Wayne County Sheriff's Department Reko died as a result of a fast progressing brain tumor.
During his time of service Reko was responsible for many accomplishments.
- Locating several large seizures of narcotics
- 410 lbs. Marijuana
- 350 lbs Marijuana
- 10 kilos Cocaine
- 6 kilos Cocaine
- 57 lbs. Marijuana
- 50 lbs Marijuana
- To date the largest seizure of Ecstasy in the state of Indiana 1.6 lbs.
- 3`d place in team competition Police K-9 Olympics out of 86 teams
- 1st place out 33 teams Harriman Tennessee
- As a result of K-9 Reko locating narcotics I have testified in Federal Court twice and ,WON
- 186 Misdemeanor and Felony arrest
- 6 street bites
- Over 10,000 kids have petted Reko at demonstrations
One of my proudest moments was when Reko located an Alzheimer patient that had been lost in a 200 plus acre woods in Fayette County for nearly 9 hours. After mounted patrol, quad runners, nearly a hundred volunteers had searched for hours Reko located the patient in about 10 min. She was found in a large black mud pit. Completely covered in mud unable to stand, cold wet with hypothermia setting in she was found by Reko. After a brief stay in the hospital she recovered fully
