Officer Dan Holderman and K-9 Wulkan of the Butler Township Police Department recently graduated from their police canine handler school at Highland Canine Training, LLC. Within their first week back at work, the team had three successful finds. The news article below from the REPUBLICAN HERALD describes one of the finds. Congratulations to Dan and Wulkan. Keep up the GOOD WORK!

Published: Wednesday, July 9, 2008 8:59 PM EDT

An investigation Tuesday into a drug-related incident in Pottsville led several local police departments to seize more than $11,000 worth of illegal drugs from a Saint Clair home and arrest a New York man on several drug-related charges.

Zachary “Dread” Guichard, 28, of Brooklyn, N.Y., is in Schuylkill County Prison in lieu of $75,000 straight bail, and faces charges of possession of controlled substances, possession with intent to deliver controlled substances, delivery of controlled substances and drug paraphernalia charges after he was discovered in a Saint Clair home with cocaine, crack cocaine, marijuana, methamphetamine, and drug paraphernalia in what Pottsville police are calling a “large scale drug arrest.”

The arrest came after Pottsville police were dispatched to 512 N. Centre St., Pottsville, for a drug-related incident Tuesday. During the investigation at that location, police found marijuana and a large amount of packaging materials in apartment 2E.

Interviews done at the scene revealed that marijuana, crack cocaine, cocaine, and methamphetamine were sold from the residence, and that a large scale drug distribution ring was selling from that residence and several others in Pottsville and Saint Clair. Police also received information that Guichard, also known as Dread, was currently at 16 E. Patterson St., Saint Clair, with a large amount of narcotics.

When police from the Pottsville, Saint Clair and New Castle police departments, as well as a K-9 unit from Butler Township, arrived at 16 E. Patterson St., they discovered Guichard hiding in a bedroom.

A search of the house turned up approximately 58 grams of cocaine with a street value of almost $6,000; 31 grams of crack cocaine with a street value of $3,100; 29 individual packets of crack and powder cocaine with a street value of $1,000; 24 grams of marijuana with a street value of $300; 32 individual packets of marijuana with a street value of $600; 11 packets of methamphetamine with a street value of $600, three digital scales, and hundreds of individual packets for use in selling the drugs.

Police also searched Guichard’s vehicle, and found cocaine and drug paraphernalia. The vehicle was seized and impounded.

Guichard was arraigned before District Judge Carol Pankake. The investigation is ongoing and more arrests are expected, Pottsville police said.