The Wisconsin State Patrol is paying tribute to two retired K-9 officers who died last week.
On Facebook Friday, the State Patrol said K-9 Cirus had passed away December 12th at the age of 12. Cirus spent eight years with the State Patrol, conducting narcotics detection sweeps that resulted in significant seizures of illegal contraband. Also passing is K-9 Nora, who died last week at the age of 13. Nora had a 9-year career of detecting large amounts of contraband in the Northcentral and Northwest regions.