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Officer Jarred Koopman is pictured here with 5-year-old Belgian Malinois, Harlej. - Courtesy Fishers Police Department/Facebook
NOBLESVILLE, Ind. (AP) — An Indianapolis man has been sentenced to six years in prison after pleading guilty to fatally shooting a police dog that was pursuing him.
Twenty-year-old Richard Garrett learned his sentence Tuesday after admitting to charges including striking a law enforcement animal and resisting law enforcement. Police say the 5-year-old Belgian Malinois named Harlej was fatally shot in the head in a wooded area in the suburb of Fishers last Nov. 13 while tracking a driver who had fled his vehicle.
Authorities say Garrett was driving a stolen vehicle traveling at about 100 mph on Interstate 69 when the car spun out of control and Garrett took off on foot.
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