After nearly seven months of speculation surrounding the initial “suspicious death” of K9 Officer Tyson, the Royal Saint Lucia Police Force (RSLPF) yesterday confirmed that the dog did not die as a result of poisoning.
According to Assistant Commissioner of Police Luke Defreitas, toxicology test results showed “absolutely no trace of any kind of poison” in K9 Tyson.
The confirmation follows earlier testing conducted last year, which had already ruled out rat bait poisoning as the cause of death. Despite those findings, the RSLPF decided to carry out additional testing to eliminate any remaining doubt and reach a more conclusive outcome.
A preliminary assessment carried out by a pathologist in 2025 had concluded that Tyson died from internal bleeding, with four possible causes identified at the time: rat bait poisoning, a severe blood clotting disorder, a low platelet count, or a serious bacterial infection.
With poisoning now completely ruled out, Defreitas said, “It means, therefore, we need to return to the table with the pathologists and other professionals to determine a cause of death.”
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Question — where was the toxicology test completed????????
The mood is red. We voted on that issue too. Wet don’t care about that. “The dog was murderrred, murderrred.”
So then officer Tyson was you all tool use and throw, no medical check-up or none assistant or….was given…
Dogs CAN absolutely be poisoned with chocolate and onions. It won’t be picked up in a toxicology report but will certainly cause hemorrhaging!
The dog didn’t die by natural cause someone had a hand in the dog’s death
St lucia times i don’t care if you don’t post my messages
Who is foolish enough to incriminate themselves?
Certainly…
The public will still not believe this nonsense….
He probably died from malnutrition and neglect
Can a toxicology test prove that the dog was starved to death? OR Did the dog commit suicide? It amuses me, witnessing what happens within the realm of the law enforcement department and to an extent the courts. Its highly corrupted! No one is going to take responsibility for this. They simply dump the trust of the country who donate this animal, who went the distance to train and fed this animal only to serve a good deed and yet they the RSLP cannot do that duty and we the citizens should believe that they are capable to maintain law and order let alone being trusted? What is at hand what and what we have to deal with in a realistically work is not going to make any difference no matter how much we bark. Change will only be achieved serious protesting, since we don’t have unity at present that achievement is not yet born.
Lucians really have in them. Whaaa! If the dog was poisoned, they would rejoice. Now the dog is not poisoned, they say the dog is poisoned. One can NEVER win with this kind of fried mentality.
All you think is everyone that an idiot think again,and he said be sure our sins will find us out.Nothing that happens in darkness it will appear in the light.