 Are you ready for warm weather and a little sunshine? The Appalachian Wireless team has decided to have the ultimate spring break event. The spring break event is going on now through the end of April and all smartphones are on sale with Appalachian Advantage. We are you. We are Appalachian Wireless. With over $15,000 in community donations, Letcher County sheriffs add a new furry member to their team. Zara, a two-year-old German shepherd, is the newest member in the fight against crime and drugs in Letcher County. In the last four weeks, Zara and Letcher County Sheriff Mickey Steins has undergone extensive schooling at Southern Ohio canine where together they will work to keep the community safe. We had four and a half weeks. One day was classwork and the rest of it was in the field actually training with her and with other canines and other handlers. It was an amazing experience for me unlike any I've ever had. She's a fantastic dog. She is trained to do an open-air sniff around people's vehicles and buildings, rooms. What she does when she does that is she detects the odor of narcotics and once she gives me an alert that she detects the odor of narcotics we can search vehicle and further search rooms and it gives us probable cause to search. During traffic stops, Zara can identify a variety of drugs including meth, heroin and marijuana outside of a vehicle in under a minute. Well it gives us an opportunity to get in some vehicles that we wouldn't have authority or permission to search. By federal and state law we're allowed to do an open-air sniff around any vehicle. Once she alerts it gives us the authority to search inside a vehicle even if you don't want to stay. You don't have to give me permission to run around a car either. It takes approximately 30 seconds to a minute to run around and state law and federal law allows us to do that. With the help from the community and donations, Zara was acquired by the Letcher County Sheriff's Department at which Stein says that support has been amazing. You know I have citizens on a weekly basis while I was in training for four and a half weeks call me and say, hey you all need anything, how's it going? It's just I think that is the confidence that the citizens has in our Sheriff's Office. The deputies have done a fantastic job and hopefully we can add some more to their work log by working Zara as much as we can. The deputies are excited about it. All the office staff are excited about it. It's a new step in the right direction for the Letcher County Sheriff's Office. To follow Zara and her fight against drugs, you can visit the Letcher County Sheriff's Facebook page. Reporting from Letcher County, Kentucky, for Mountain Top News, I'm Joel Hodgell.