5 new AST K-9 teams hit the streets

(Left) Mocha; (Right) Mak
Alaska State Troopers are about to have more specially-trained troopers on the job.
Five teams of K-9 cops and their partners graduated Friday and are certified to better detect drugs.
The graduations are part of the governor’s “Safer Alaska” initiative.
Troopers now have six dog teams for drug detection, but, two of them, Mocha and Mak, are different; they’re the first dogs to not be trained to sniff out marijuana. Mocha and Mak were named