Accelerant-sniffing dog Jimmy helping Suffolk County fire marshals with arson investigations

Suffolk County’s newest investigator spent a year behind bars, but rest assured, his partner says Jimmy is "a very good boy."

Jimmy, a 17-month-old yellow Lab and the county’s latest accelerant-sniffing dog, has assisted Suffolk fire marshals on eight arson cases during the highly trained dog's first month on the job.

With training courtesy of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives — much of it in a prison dog training program — Jimmy helps Suffolk County Fire Marshal Aaron Rombough find trace amounts of charcoal lighter fluid, gasoline, kerosene and other ignitable liquids. He's the county’s eighth explosive detection K-9 in its nearly 35-year partnership with the ATF, which county officials tout as the longest-running collaboration of its kind in the country.