{"id":20231,"date":"2015-09-29T08:04:20","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T15:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/k9-receives-bulletproof-vest-in-honor-of-slain-trooper\/"},"modified":"2015-09-29T08:04:20","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T15:04:20","slug":"k9-receives-bulletproof-vest-in-honor-of-slain-trooper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/k9-receives-bulletproof-vest-in-honor-of-slain-trooper\/","title":{"rendered":"K9 receives bulletproof vest in honor of slain trooper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE \u2014 An Alaska State Trooper K9 named in honor of a trooper killed in Tanana last year is now wearing a special ballistic vest to commemorate his namesake.<\/p>\n<p>KTVA-TV reported that K9 Skippy was given a bullet- and stab-protective vest by Vested Interest in K9s, Inc. A special tag on the vest reads \u201cIn memory of Sgt. Scott Johnson.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 4-year-old Czech Shepherd was named after Johnson, who was shot and killed in Tanana in 2014 along with trooper Gabe Rich. Troopers say the man\u2019s nickname was \u201cSkippy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Massachusetts-based Vested Interest donates similar vests to law enforcement dogs throughout the country.<\/p>\n<p>Skippy works with trooper Joshua Rallo on patrol and in drug detection cases in Fairbanks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE \u2014 An Alaska State Trooper K9 named in honor of a trooper killed in Tanana last year is now wearing a special ballistic vest to commemorate his namesake. KTVA-TV reported that K9 Skippy was given a bullet- and stab-protective vest by Vested Interest in K9s, Inc. A special tag on the vest reads \u201cIn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-20231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20231"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=20231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}