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Police dog stabbed by Vancouver suspect
Posted: 9:11 PM, Apr. 13, 2006
Last Updated: 9:13 PM, Apr. 13, 2006
By Antonia Giedowyn, KGW.com

VANCOUVER, Wash. - A police dog was stabbed by a frenzied man who had been harassing drivers on Interstate-5 in Vancouver Wednesday evening, police said.

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Vancouver Police Officer Jack Anderson and his K-9, Farley.

The suspect, 29-year-old Alvaro Gabriel Ortiz-Guerrero, was pounding on car hoods and slowing traffic to a standstill on I-5 near E. Fourth Plain Boulevard, said Vancouver Police spokeswoman Kim Kapp.

Ortiz-Guerrero ran away from pursuing police troopers but was later found at a home he had allegedly broken into in the area of 28th and L streets.

The suspect refused to exit the house peacefully and began breaking glass and furniture, then barricaded himself in a bedroom, according to Kapp.

“He was doing harm to himself while he was inside the home, he was breaking up the home and his injuries occurred as result of that, I believe,” Kapp said.

A Vancouver police officer entered the house with his police dog, Farley, to arrest the suspect, but as Farley started to apprehend Ortiz-Guerrero, the suspect stabbed the dog in the chest, Kapp said.

Police shot and subdued Ortiz-Guerrero with a taser.

Farley was rushed to a Vancouver Vet Clinic and Ortiz-Guerrero was taken to a Vancouver Hospital for treatment before being booked for misdemeanor and felony crimes, according to police.

The police dog underwent surgery for his wounds.

“The prognosis is good,” Kapp said. Farley suffered muscle damage and a cut vein, but is expected to return to police work after a few weeks of recuperation.

Ortiz-Guerrero is a transient originally from Guadalajara, Mexico, Kapp said.

Police said they don't know why Ortiz-Guerrero was behaving so erratically.

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