Learn about searching for and detection of explosive evidence from a certified K9 officer and her special agent during the next presentation of the MSFS seminar series at Emporia State University.
Special Agent Canine Handler Tyree Koerner of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms will present with Shiloh, an ATF explosive detection K-9 at 7 p.m. Monday, March 9, in Science Hall 72 on the ESU campus.
Shiloh is a 7-year-old labrador retriever who was trained at ATF National Canine Division in Fort Royal, Virginia. Between August 2019 and January 2026, Shilo completed 1,363 evidentiary search of which 479 were related to homicides. She is responsible for the recovery of 1,742 shell casings and 338 crime guns as well as 198 intact ammunition finds, 52 trace evidence/bullet strike finds and 34 low-explosive finds.
Koerner and Shiloh are assigned to the ATF Kansas City Field Division.
According to information about Shiloh on the ATF explosives website, “In May 2022, three separate homicides occurred over the course of seven days in Kansas City, Missouri, and Leavenworth. In each of these incidents, K-9 Shiloh was called to search residential wooded areas around the respective homicides, and she located the firearms used by the suspects in each case. One firearm was discarded in a bush near the crime scene, another was found in a grassy stretch of an area park and the last firearms was found in thick foliage along a roadway.”
The presentation on Monday is free and open to the public.