17/01/2024
How we won the Higgens and Langly swift water rescue award.
Case #93-211-003 Clatsop Co. Water Rescue Seaside, Ore. South Shore beach. (On Scene)
Team: H.Oakes SAR Dog Ranger and Brandon Oakes.
Results: While walking on the beach we witnessed 5 children get pulled out to sea by a sneaker rip tide undertow.
One girl made it out on her own. Two parents jumped in and saved their children and that left two children still heading out to sea. Drowning.
Brandon acted as a spotter while Ranger and I went to help.
I swam out to the boy and pulled him out of the water and Ranger swam 30 yards out to the little girl and she hung on to his tail while he pulled her in.
Fire Dept. and Police notified of incident by family. Great Save Ranger. Brandon acted as spotter. Did great job. (Later we were awarded the Higgins and Langley Water Rescue Award for saving these two kid’s lives).
It's nice when we can save them.
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How I used a helicopter and my SAR Dog Ranger to find a missing hiker.
On 06-22-93 case # 93-226-018 I was called in to the Olympic National Park to search for missing Hiker-Hoskins-West Side of Mt. Angelas. Olympic National Forest. Missing x 13 days.
I gave SAR Dog Ranger the work command, we than loaded inside a helicopter and I asked the pilot to open the windows and air vents and fly as close to Mt Angeles as possible. As we made our first pass, my SAR Dog air scented and alerted on a "Dead body".
I looked down and there he was. He had fallen 300 feet to his death.
I notified the pilot we had found him. Pilot said "Are you kidding? We've searched this area three times with climbers, other SAR Dog teams and flown the area twice.
It took us 15 minutes to find his remains using this method.
We assisted in the body recovery with park rangers and MT. Rescue.
How I proved a Deputy sheriff from Douglas County murdered his son.
I was called to a private home in Douglas Co. Ore. by OSP Detectives regarding a missing child Tommy Gibson.
on 05-22-91 Case #91-015 Douglas Co. SO. Missing child Tommy Gibson. Homicide.
Team: H. Oakes SAR Dog Ranger. While searching the residence my SAR Dog Ranger gave a death alert in the kitchen. Larry, his wife, their young daughter and larry's attorney were all standing nearby watching us work.
When my SAR Dog gave a death alert, I notified detectives and Larry's daughter said "That's where my Daddy hurt my brother".
The attorney quickly escorted Larry, his family out of the house so we couldn't hear their conversation. I then searched the outside of the house and under some corragated tin roofing material I found Tommy's clothing buried in the dirt.
Results: Douglas Co. Deputy Larry Gibson claims his son was kidnapped in the country down a private rd where two big dogs were sitting in front of with a Marked Police car parked in front of house and four people home sitting in front of Picture Window.
Oregon State Police served search warrant on his house today.
Larry later convicted of killing Tommy and fabricating story.
Everything my search dog Ranger and I found showed that Larry did kill Tommy in the kitchen while Tommy was eating and then he laid the child outside. Larry then put Tommy in back of patrol car and left the scene.
Tommy’s remains have never been found yet. Larry convicted of homicide. Ranger located Tommy's shirt where Larry buried it outside house under corragated tin roofing.
Using a victim's remains (Crime scene as a scent article to track the murder suspect).
09-04-89 89-016 Clark Co. Vanc. Wash. David Douglas Park Missing 2 boys. William and Cole Neer. Teams: H.Oakes SAR Dog Ranger and SSSAR. Search teams found two boys dead. Murdered and molested & Stabbed to death. SAR Dog Ranger Tracked suspect from victim's body one mile into city to Andresen St. Vanc. PD with us on track. (Suspect) parked his car here and then left the scene after the crime. Suspect later id as Westly Allen Dodd who was later captured.
On of our quickest finds. We just arrived per Polk Co. Sheriff's office request to search a farm in P*e Dee, Oregon. Once we arrived while I was talking to the SAR Deputy Bill Seeley, all 3 SAR dogs walked over to a nearby firepit and started giving "Death alerts". Upon inspecting the site carefully there was a tennis shoe sticking out of the fire pit with a human bone attached to it. The suspect buried the victim and then built a fire to hide the evidence. (He didn't do a good job at all hiding it).
04-06-89 89-005 Polk Co. Ore.
Person missing "Jay Burroughs"-Homicide-P*e Dee, Ore.
Victim missing 45 days.
Team: H.Oakes SAR Dog Ranger. Bill Galowski SAR Dog Lady and another K9 team member from our unit with her SAR dog Deb w Amber.
Results: MWSD Teams Located victims buried in dirt and debris pile in 3 minutes. We also located vital evidence in crime scene to show where victim was killed (SHOT) how he was transported to burial site, where evidence was in an abandoned house to show who shot victim and when.
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