A Lake County sheriff’s canine helped officers track down a gun that was ditched by a suspect who fled from officers in Vernon Hills early Wednesday.
The Lake County Sheriff’s Office was requested with a canine around 1:40 a.m. Wednesday to assist in the 500 block of Townline Road in Vernon Hills.
A suspect fled in a car from the Mundelein Police Department and crashed before fleeing on foot.
Officers located a firearm magazine discarded by the suspect and believed he may have had a firearm before being apprehended, sheriff’s officials said.
Lake County Sheriff’s Canine Odin arrived and began a track.
He searched around the path of the fleeing suspect and located a loaded firearm in bushes near a jewelry store.
Sheriff’s officials said Odin saved a child or someone else from finding the offender’s discarded firearm.
“Good boy Canine Odin!” the sheriff’s office said on social media.