Lake County —After more than a day of intense searching, the Kent County Sheriff’s Office, which serves the Grand Rapids area, has located one of their most important members, a K9 named Soka.

Soka went missing in Northern Michigan over the weekend.

He’s one of their newer K9’s, trained to sniff out narcotics.

Captain Ben Cammenga said it couldn’t have been a better outcome, finding Soka so soon after he got away from his K9 handler Sunday morning.

“We have some great news. We had a citizen call in that they saw a dog, which might be Soka. And when we went over there, sure enough, it was so, this is a huge relief for everybody involved that he was located. Overall, his condition appears to be good.

Soka, a German Shorthair Pointer mix, took off while on a walk in the Manistee National

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