Police dog caught stealing toys (Video)

A police department’s therapy dog sparked a hilarious internal investigation after officers noticed donated toys for the holidays seemed to be disappearing from the room they had carefully placed them in. “We’ve had several officers that have worked very hard to make sure that some of the kids in town and the community that have needs will have something to open on Christmas,” said Deputy Chief James Mill. The other night, an officer working the night shift noticed Ben Franklin — a friendly golden retriever who has free rein of the building — seemed to be on a mission. He was walking back-and-forth between his office (he has a bed under an officer’s desk) and a classroom housing a bunch of donated toys slated to be Christmas gifts.

The officer pulled out his phone and started recording. Ben’s colleagues confronted him as he was attempting to steal yet another toy, a baby doll in a bassinet. When asked, “where you going with the baby?” Ben bolted back to his bed where officers found the other missing and now slobber-covered toys. The video of the caper — recorded by the officer who busted Ben — immediately went viral. “I don’t know what goes through the mind of a dog that comes into a room and is overwhelmed with toys and everything else,” Stg Johnson said. He explained Ben had taken several toys and hidden them in his “lair,” — including a stuffed llama, a penguin, and the baby doll in the video.

The dog had taken several toys

They quickly fingered one of their own as the leading suspect. He explained Ben is usually a very good boy, whose main job is to diffuse situations and comfort people. The dog primarily makes visits to schools to hang out with kids who are in crisis. “The school resource officer will bring Ben down and as soon as the child sees the dog and we say ‘If you calm down you can pet the dog,’ you can get them to calm down,” Johnson explained. “It’s amazing the effect the dog has.” Johnson said they already replaced all the toys Ben slobbered on. Watch the video, when Ben saw the toys, he thought they all belonged to him.