MARIETTA, GA — An off-duty Cobb County police officer’s drug-detection K-9 partner escaped from his backyard Monday afternoon, wandered two houses down, entered a neighbor’s open garage where a 4/20 gathering was in progress, and sat down in the textbook “alert” position directly next to a cooler containing approximately four ounces of marijuana — effectively conducting an unsanctioned narcotics operation on his day off.

The K-9, a four-year-old Belgian Malinois named Biscuit, is assigned to Officer Travis Worthy of the Cobb County Police Department’s narcotics unit. Worthy told investigators he was mowing his lawn when Biscuit pushed through a gap in the fence and disappeared. He followed the dog’s path and found him two houses away, sitting at attention next to a blue Yeti cooler in the garage of Dale Purvis, 39, who was hosting approximately twelve guests.

Good Boy Goes Rogue

Purvis and his guests initially assumed Biscuit was a lost pet and offered him a hot dog. Biscuit reportedly ignored the hot dog — a detail Worthy later noted is “consistent with his training” — and remained locked in the alert position. Worthy arrived moments later, recognized the alert, and was faced with what the incident report describes as “an awkward professional dilemma.”

“I’m standing in my neighbor’s garage in cargo shorts and flip-flops, my dog is alerting on his cooler, and twelve people are staring at me holding a half-eaten Capri Sun. I didn’t want to be a cop right then. But Biscuit had already made the call.” — Officer Travis Worthy, Cobb County PD

Worthy called on-duty officers, who arrived and recovered four ounces of cannabis, a glass pipe, and a bag of edible gummies from the cooler. Purvis was cited for misdemeanor possession — Georgia decriminalized small amounts in 2025 but Purvis’s quantity exceeded the threshold. No other guests were charged, though several reportedly left “very quickly and very quietly” upon seeing the marked units arrive.

Purvis was not arrested but his citation has been posted to JailReport.lol, where Biscuit has become something of a folk hero in the comments. Worthy has since repaired the fence. The Cobb County PD issued a statement confirming that Biscuit’s alert, while valid, was “not part of any authorized operation” and that the dog has been given “no additional commendations for freelance work.” Biscuit remains on active duty. He still has not eaten the hot dog.