Celebrating K9 Yoda: We Speak to Fellow K9 Officers (and Their Handlers)!

Surviving the Survivor: #BestGuests in True Crime

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True Crime, News, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2023

⏱️ 98 minutes

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#STSNation [https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/stsnation], Welcome to another episode of Surviving The Survivor, the podcast that brings you the #BestGuests [https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/bestguests] in all of #TrueCrime [https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/truecrime]… The end of a two-week manhunt for Pennsylvania fugitive Danilo Cavalcante centered around a tactically trained K-9 named Yoda. The 4-year-old Belgian Malinois is credited for bringing Cavalcante, 34, into custody as he attempted to crawl through underbrush, still armed with a rifle he stole from a garage. When Cavalcante refused to respond to officers' verbal commands, a Border Patrol team released Yoda to pursue him. So how vital are K9s to law enforcement? How are they trained so well? How dangerous is their job? We speak to our favorite "people" - dogs! #BestGuests [https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/bestguests]: K9 Nate and Houston Police Sergeant Paul Foster. Sgt. Foster is a 16 year veteran of the Houston Police Department. He's been a handler in the HPD K9 Detail since 2014. Nate is his 2nd SWAT/Patrol K9 since being a handler. Nate has been Sgt Foster's partner for a little over 3 years. He has been extremely successful in locating and capturing numerous criminals and wanted fugitives and continues to be a huge asset making our community a much safer place. Radar and Officer Eamon O'Reilly Charlie is a 4 year old German Shepherd from Kansas City, Kansas. Charlie is a certified live find Search and Rescue dog (National Association of Search and Rescue) and will be obtaining his second certification for Human Remains Detection (North American Police Working Dog Association) in January. Charlie loves helping families and playing fetch. Charlie's IG: KansasK9Charlie Cassidy's Bio: In 2019, after being diagnosed with an autoimmune disease, Cassidy was forced to leave her family bakery business behind. No longer being able to work with or around gluten, she was gifted a German Shepherd puppy named Charlie by her husband for Christmas. Cassidy decided to dedicate her time to volunteering as a Search and Rescue team with Charlie. Cassidy and Charlie are proud members of K9 Search and Rescue of Kansas, based in Wichita, Kansas. Cassidy and Charlie love visiting schools to teach kids about the science of scent and how amazing working K9s truly are! Cassidy and Charlie are looking forward to completing our certification for Human Remains Detection. They hope to aid families with reclaiming their right to their loved ones final resting place.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the global phenomenon,
0:02.0	Surviving the Survivor,
0:04.0	where we bring you the best guests in all of true crime.
0:08.0	What's up, STS Nation, and welcome to another episode of
0:11.0	surviving the Survivor, the podcast that promises to bring you the very best
0:16.9	guess in all of true crime and today I said we do it and perhaps the show I've been looking forward to the most and we've got
0:27.4	Crime Khan coming up so an exciting week a lot going on but I'm glad we can make
0:32.3	this happen before we introduced you to
0:35.0	our best guest our best four-legged guests the end of a two-week manhunt for
0:40.6	Pennsylvania fugitive Danilo Kavacante centered around a tactically trained
0:46.5	canine named Yoda. The four-year-old Belgian Malinwa is credited for bringing Danella Kavacante 34 years old into custody as he attempted to
0:56.8	crawl through underbrush still armed with a rifle he stole from a garage and when Kavakante refused to respond to officers
1:05.9	verbal commands a border patrol team a special team known as Boratak released Yoda to pursue him and we all know what happened next.
1:15.9	Yoda latch on to that leg also to his head for a moment.
1:20.3	And there in the background you see Nate,
1:22.5	I'm about to introduce you to our best guest today.
1:26.8	Canine Nate and Houston Police Officer Paul Foster.
1:31.0	Officer Foster, you see there with a hat on.
1:33.9	He's a 16 year veteran of the Houston Police Department.
1:38.5	A member of SDS Nation recommended him.
1:41.0	I reached out and he said, got to get permission. I said no
1:44.8	problem. I said I've got Phil Waters on the show every Friday within 0.3 seconds
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