Texas sheriff: Illegal immigrant 'destroyed' two police dogs during chase

Two dogs assisting a Texas sheriff’s department were strangled to death by an illegal immigrant over the weekend after helping police chase more than a dozen others who jumped out of a truck during a traffic stop Saturday, according to local authorities.

Aransas County Sheriff Bill Mills said the two canines had been lent to the department by kennel owner Joe Braman in neighboring Refugio County, Texas. The dogs were trained to track people with dementia or Alzheimer’s disease who had gone missing, according to a statement issued Sunday.