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ROMULUS (WWJ) – A retired bomb sniffing German Shepherd has been caught after running loose for hours at Detroit Metro Airport.
Officials said Arco, a retired White House dog, just arrived at Metro Airport from Tucson, Ariz., Monday night. When Continental Cargo workers let the dog out of his crate to go to the bathroom, he ran off.
The dog’s owner, Nadine Karsevar, said Arco ran for about five hours in view of rescue crews, but when approached – he bolted. “Apparently, I guess he had his collar on and his leash, and they said he slipped his collar, which, that’s really amazing; he’s never done that,” Karsevar said.
Karsevar told WWJ Newsradio 950 he was caught early Tuesday afternoon and was OK.
Metro Airport Spokesman Mike Conway said Romulus police were handling the situation because Continental Cargo is not on airport property. Conway said an airport officer was bit on the hand.
Karsevar runs a foundation that rehabilitates dogs and places them with army veterans or their families to live out their days. Arco is 6 years old. He was retired by Capitol Police after killing a cat and was on his way to a new home in Michigan.
There were no immediate details as to how or where the dog was finally captured.
Stay with WWJ and CBSDetroit.com for the latest.
43 Comments
where are you cesar milan, when we need you the most… haha
January 17, 2012 at 9:17 am | | Report comment
Retired for killing a cat? Good doggie.
January 17, 2012 at 11:15 am | | Report comment
moron. bet you delight in that kind of news…..bet your guilty of that as well. ….creep
January 17, 2012 at 11:51 am | | Report comment
Naw, GD doesn’t have the nerve to kill anything, he just sits at his computer abusing himself
January 17, 2012 at 12:16 pm
Awe. We have someone who made a cat joke and you bed wetting cat lovers get all worked up in a, well, hissy fit. Poor babies. Go cry to mommie, whiners.
January 17, 2012 at 1:03 pm
Why would anyone with an ounce of common sense let a dog out of a cage unless the cage and the person are in a small room with the door closed?
January 17, 2012 at 11:20 am | | Report comment
Because some dumb people think that pets are people too.
January 17, 2012 at 11:25 am | | Report comment
Pet’s aren’t people; most pets have redeeming qualities.
January 17, 2012 at 11:48 am
How did the dog even come in contact with a cat while being abused as a slave for the Capitol police? Poor dog at the mercy of these three idiots. The owner, the Capitol police and the airport moron.
January 17, 2012 at 11:35 am | | Report comment
You got that right. Typical TSA stupidity, they got outsmarted by a dog. Typical government worker, SOMEONE ELSE has to catch my dog for me. Why doesent she bounce her blonde bimbo titties over there and catch her own damn dog. Does it not like her either? Wow, my dogs cant wait to be with me. Maybe it is looking for Barry Soteros birth certificate.
January 17, 2012 at 1:06 pm
If you read the article, you’d know the dog was let out on a leash to relieve himself after a flight from Arizona, but then slipped out of his collar and ran off.
January 17, 2012 at 12:18 pm | | Report comment
Wow . . . dog kills cat, gets fired . . .the world has certainly lost it.
January 17, 2012 at 11:23 am | | Report comment
go dog go!
January 17, 2012 at 11:29 am | | Report comment
Typical animal profiteer abuser. Get your ass on a plane and get to the airport instead of yapping to the media. And she FOUNDED the organization? Animal abuser.
January 17, 2012 at 11:31 am | | Report comment
Bomb sniffing dog bites cop…maybe smelled gun powder?
January 17, 2012 at 11:51 am | | Report comment
Likely backed into a corner and was fearful. If an EOD dog smells anything resembling explosives, it’ll just sit down and wait for a reward. This is going to end badly, because it sounds like the security guards up there don’t know the first thing about how a scared dog things/acts.
January 17, 2012 at 11:57 am | | Report comment
No he did not smell gun powder, he smelled a terrorist that the local and federal police have become. The dog deserves a medal.
January 17, 2012 at 3:36 pm | | Report comment
What this story didn’t tell you is that Arco was scheduled to be euthanized before the rescue group stepped up to save him. Thats right! The government euthanizes it’s service dogs when their usefullness is over. Here is my proof: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120117/METRO01/201170389/Retired-bomb-sniffing-dog-gets-loose-Metro-Airport?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE
January 17, 2012 at 12:11 pm | | Report comment
Good. If he was euthanized in the first place the airport wouldnt of had this mess. Hes a %$$# dog.
January 17, 2012 at 2:12 pm | | Report comment
gas him = troll………
January 17, 2012 at 3:14 pm
If he wants to measure up to the rest of the White House detritus, being a vicious cat killer will not cut it. Maybe he can figure a way to dispense billions in tax revenues to campaign contributors. Or sell grenade launchers to the cartel. Even Arne Duncan has nibbled on a man in uniform a time or two.
January 17, 2012 at 12:30 pm | | Report comment
He’s looking for that underwear bomber!!! Go get it boy!!!!!
January 17, 2012 at 12:31 pm | | Report comment
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If Arco was working in the White House, I suspect he became paranoid schizophrenic. That by itself does not disqualify someone from working in the White House. (There are those who say it is a recommendation.) However, when Arco killed a cat instead of another dog, that qualified as a hate crime against a member of a different species. At that point Arco was a liability, and had to be fired to maintain the integrity of government.
January 17, 2012 at 12:56 pm | | Report comment
I love my dog very, very much, but if she kills she must be put down. Keeping a killer dog is begging for a lawsuit and jail time. I had a dog years ago that brutally attacked my postman. The dog was put down right after the two week waiting period. The dog pound people tried to make me keep him but I’d have none of it. It was my fault he was a killer and I’ll live with it forever, but keeping him would have been plain ignorant. After all, it’s just a dog and if said dog kills, it must go down.
January 17, 2012 at 1:13 pm | | Report comment
maybe if they didnt have white house cats delivering the mail the dog would still be working
January 17, 2012 at 1:28 pm | | Report comment
Whew! When I saw the headline, I thought Michelle got loose.
January 17, 2012 at 1:21 pm | | Report comment
What a waste of an expensively trained dog! These cost 50lk to train, and guess how pays for it?
Coulda left it working with a muzzle.
Such is official lawyer-driven waste and organizational psychosis,
I suspect that if there were service cats, they’d be destroyed for catching and killing a mouse?
January 17, 2012 at 1:26 pm | | Report comment
such short-sitedness,, the dog could have been reassigned to work at airports or border checkpoints or other sites where free roaming cats are not that common
January 17, 2012 at 1:47 pm | | Report comment
It’s George Bush’s fault.
January 17, 2012 at 2:01 pm | | Report comment
Good cop gone bad
January 17, 2012 at 2:09 pm | | Report comment
Too bad the dog didn’t attack several TSA agents.
January 17, 2012 at 2:12 pm | | Report comment
Here we go again. Stupid humans blame the dog for killing a cat. Sorry to inform the incredibly stupid, but the fact is that most dogs have the instinct to do so as descendants of wolves.
Why was the dog able to interact with a cat without being tested first? @ 6 years old this dog was in his prime as a working dog. But then look at who his owners were…… Government morons. They don’t have to be logical or smart, they have that right to their supreme stupidity as government employees.
January 17, 2012 at 2:16 pm | | Report comment
PERFECT analogy for Detroit.
January 17, 2012 at 3:30 pm | | Report comment
Good dog, good dog…now go bite TSA in the @$$.
January 17, 2012 at 3:41 pm | | Report comment
Run spot, run! See spot run!
January 17, 2012 at 3:52 pm | | Report comment
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This article is full of inaccuracies. First, Arco was not retired after killing a cat. He was retired 3 and half years before this incident occurred. He was retired from the Capital Police due to his inability to be trained. The Capital Police failed him and he was adopted out years ago. He first killed his new family’s pet rabbit inside their home. Next, he killed a pet chicken. Then finally this past summer, he killed the cat on the neighbor’s front porch. Because the owners did not fence their property, they used an electric shock collar. When Arco killed the cat, they did not use the collar, he escaped, then ran over to the neighbors house, cornered the cat and killed it. This dog has a history of escaping and harming animals and people.
January 18, 2012 at 1:12 pm | | Report comment