Wesson worked with his handler, Deputy Ryan Smith, for the three years before his cancer diagnosis.
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K-9 Wesson served with the St. Louis County Sheriff's Office from fall 2017 to January 2021, when he was diagnosed with cancer. His handler was Deputy Ryan Smith. (Photo courtesy of Herbergs Hot Shots Photography)
Less than two months after the Duluth Police Department's K-9 Luna was killed, the Northland lost another K-9 in law enforcement — this time to cancer.
K-9 Wesson, a German shepherd formerly with the St. Louis County Sheriff's Office, died Monday, one week shy of his fifth birthday, according to a post on the Northland K9 Foundation's Facebook page announcing his death.