BURIEN, Wash. — Quinn, a 2-year-old golden Labrador retriever, worked his first drug bust Wednesday, helping a team of veteran Burien police and King County sheriff's detectives score an estimated $2.5 million worth of crystal meth, fentanyl and black-tar heroin before it could be cut up and dispatched across Western Washington.
The former Purina Puppy Chow model, certified as a narcotics-sniffing police dog just six weeks ago, did "exceptionally well" on his virgin foray into the dark, money-driven world of international drug smuggling, according to his K-9 handler.
Quinn came in at the tail end of a yearlong investigation into a highly organized group of alleged drug distributors with family connections to Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel, said detectives involved in the undercover operation.
