BUCKEYE, AZ (AZFamily) — A police dog hurt while chasing a convicted sex offender last month is back on duty.

Buckeye Police K-9 Echo, who has served nearly three years with the department, lost a front tooth and chipped a canine while trying to capture 48-year-old Adrian Villareal on Nov. 21.

Police responded to Baseline and Pima roads , just west of Apache Road, for reports of Villareal following a 12-year-old girl as she was walking to a bus stop.

Workers at a nearby daycare safely pulled the girl into the building before officers arrived.

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When police got there, Villareal reportedly ran into the backyard of a home near Miller and Maricopa roads , about half a mile north of Baseline Road.

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