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Macon County Welcomes New Police Dog

Capone's name might bring to mind a bad guy but the latest member of the Macon County Sheriff's Department has already sunk some serious teeth into crime in the central Illinois county.

The police dog has been on the job two weeks. But already he's helped collar a pair of car-theft suspects in Mount Zion, near Decatur.

Macon County Sheriff Tom Schneider says the suspects headed for a deep creek thinking the German shepherd couldn't follow. They thought wrong.

Capone also has been credited with sniffing out marijuana and cocaine in a home.

The sheriff says the dog's name is his only drawback. But Capone arrived already named for gangster Al Capone. So the department will keep the name.

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