Marty Lepird
Instructor
Marty is a retired Sergeant with the Arizona Department of Public Safety. He spent seventeen years assigned to the canine unit where he served as a handler, trainer and training supervisor. He has worked for Adlerhorst since 2017 and currently conducts the monthly maintenance training and annual certifications for patrol in Northern California.
Quinn Hanlye
Instructor
Quin Hanley is a Marine Veteran has been a police officer for over 15 year. Quinn has been a dog handler for 5 years and is currently working a dual purpose patrol/narcotic detection dog and is the SWAT K9 handler for his agency's tactical unit. He has trained patrol, narcotics and explosives detection dogs. Quinn currently works the patrol monthly Maintenance Training.
Tom Fidel
Instructor
Tom Fidel has been in law enforcement for over twenty five years. He currently works as a dual purpose canine handler for an agency in San Diego County. Tom has been a handler for more than fifteen years and has worked three police canines. He has been a patrol, narcotics, and explosive dog handler. He currently works the patrol and detection monthly training for San Diego County.
Tom Brown
Instructor
Tom Brown Tom Brown has worked for the Pasadena Police Department for the last twenty-four years. Tom worked as a decoy for five years before becoming a canine handler. Tom worked a cross-trained patrol dog for nine years. He has worked for Adlerhorst since 2008 after completing the Post Evaluators Course. Tom works as a Post Evaluator for patrol and narcotic re-certification classes. Tom is currently working monthly narcotic maintenance and the Basic Narcotic Classes.
Ed Nicks
Instructor
Ed was a Police Officer and a supervisor for thirty three years. He first became a dog handler in 1979. He has also been active in the Schutzhund sport for many years. He has been with Adlerhorst full time since his retirement in 2003. Ed resides in West Texas and does much of our satellite training in the Southwest.
Michael Reaver
Owner, Instructor
Michael Reaver has served as an army veteran for six years, deployed overseas to numerous countries, Iraq , Afghanistan, Macedonia and Afrika. His fundamentals for dog training were laid at an early age. By 8 years of age he had obedience trained several young dogs. At 14 years of age he made several procurement trips […]
Ron Ramirez
Instructor
Ron Ramirez is a retired police officer who worked as a handler, supervisor and department trainer. He has been an instructor at Adlerhorst since 2007, serving as one of the instructors for the Basic Handler Course, Patrol & Detection Monthly Training, the Re-Certification Courses and the K9 Evaluators Course. Ron is currently a full time instructor for the Basic Detection Courses.
Paul Western
Instructor
Paul Western has been in law enforcement with the San Bernardino sheriff’s and Pomona Police department for twenty three years. He spent thirteen years as a K9 officer working a dual purpose dog for apprehension and explosives. He also spent ten years as a SWAT team member working as a K9 handler and explosive breacher. Paul western has been with Adlerhorst since 2008 as a apprehension, narcotics, explosive and mobile odor detection instructor.
