The man had been missing for more than an hour and had a cellphone but the battery had died.
That's where DeSantola and Pietro stepped in. The 2-year-old German shepherd from Slovakia was determined to be a better option than a state police K-9 because of his ability to zero in on one particular scent.
DeSantola began the track and K-9 Pietro led him for nearly a mile - along roadways, through several backyards and finally into a wooded area where he located the missing man just before 4 p.m.
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