Latest Headlines
- A Very Good Boy: ECSO K-9 Streeter Awarded Medal Of Courage For Jumping Off Bridge After Suspect
- Plans Refiled For Circle K At Highway 95A, Quintette Road; Intersection Improvements Proposed
- Escambia School Board Buys 36 Acres For $3.9 Million For New Beulah School
- Head On Crash Injures Two In Beulah
- FWC Removes 14 Boaters For Boating Under The Influence During Blue Angels Air Show
- Century Spending Over $3.3 Million On Five Sewage Lift Stations
- Escambia Man Gets Life Sentence For Murdering Roommate Before Staging Her Drowning
- Catholic’s TJ McCants Drafted By Chicago White Sox
- Man Gets 50 Years In Prison For 2022 Murder At Cantonment Gas Station
- Pedestrian Checking Trailer Tire Struck By Car In Two Vehicle Crash Near Century
Escambia Sheriff’s Office Names New K-9s After Two Fallen Deputies
December 7, 2021
The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office has named two new K-9s after deputies that were killed in the line of duty.
K-9 Cook is named after Deputy Don Cook who was killed in a 1988 crash after learning of a high speed pursuit of armed robbers headed into Escambia County from Santa Rosa County. Cook responded to I-10 where he set up a roadblock in the west bound lane between the off ramp to Highway 29 and the I -10 spur near the railroad trestle. Cook exited his vehicle and the pursuit continued toward the roadblock where he was struck and killed. The suspect were taken into custody several miles away after their vehicle was disabled. Cook was a five-year veteran of the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office.
K-9 Streeter is named after Cpl. Eric Streeter, who was shot and killed in 1984 as he followed to escapees from the county jail. He was waiting for backup when the suspects stopped, got out of their vehicle and opened fire. He had been with the ECSO for eight years. Street’s son later became a Florida Highway Patrol trooper.
The families of the late deputies were at an agency barbecue Monday for current and retired employees had a chance to meet the new K-9s.
Comments
3 Responses to “Escambia Sheriff’s Office Names New K-9s After Two Fallen Deputies”
What a beautiful tribute! Also, Susie, that’s a Malinois aka a Belgian Shepard, they are extremely high energy dogs who stay very lean. Much like German Shorthaired Pointers, you can see ribs on almost every single one of them and if not they’re most likely over weight and not healthy. The Malinois is a very smart and extremely athletic breed and ECSO made an excellent choice in getting this breed!
Wonderful tribute, God bless them and their handlers…now feed that dog well. You can see his ribs.
That Deputy with a shaved, wrinkled head looks like a Shar-Pei!!
Just kidding!! lol
The tribute is a wonderful thing!! It is awesome that Sheriff Simmons remembers the guys who were here!!!