CANFIELD — Canfield police Chief Chuck Colucci said he isn’t surprised that Nix, the drug-alert dog handled by Canfield police officer Aaron Young, handled a recent assignment at the Youngstown Post Office with ease.

He alerted to cocaine inside a suspicious package.

Nix and Young were called to the post office last month to help with an investigation of the package that came from Puerto Rico, and was addressed to a home in Youngstown, but could not be delivered.

A postal investigator at the Youngstown processing center became suspicious of the package. The investigator determined that no one lived at the address, and the names on the package appeared to be fictitious.

Sgt. Josh Wells with the Canfield Police Department said the U.S. Postal Service typically co-mingles a package like that with other unsuspicious packages and lets the police dog check for drugs.

In this case, Nix, who has been on the job about a month, apparently picked out the suspicious package, allowing postal officials to obtain a search warrant and find nearly seven pounds of cocaine inside.

Wells said no charges apparently have been filed in the case.

Colucci said Nix has “done a great job” during his short time with the department.

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