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November 25, 2009
HOUSTON - K-9 Officer Rick Opperud began his 20-year police career in Danbury and became nationally known as a police dog trainer, Brazoria County Sheriff Charles Wagner said.
Opperud, 47, died Tuesday morning of complications from an aneurysm that burst while he was training drug dogs in Louisiana on Nov. 4. A cerebral aneurysm is a bulging, weak area in the wall of an artery that supplies blood to the brain. Opperud was flown to Methodist Hospital in Houston, where he underwent surgery to repair the problem.
