Half of the six deputies in the Teton County Sheriff's Office are under investigation for unrelated issues.

As channel 3 has been reporting, the Tri-county Sheriff's office is investigating Deputy Joseph Gutierrez. He's the officer who shot a dog three times on the owners property.

Right now Gutierrez is suspended with pay as Tri-county finishes its investigation. Officials say they need to interview two more people and the investigation should be complete by the end of the week.

Two other deputies in the same department are being investigated by the state Attorney General's office.

29 year old Nate Froehlich is being investigated for abuse of power. He's also facing charges of insurance fraud in Ada County.

Froehlich was suspended without pay on November 9. He's worked for the county under two years and officials say the alleged insurance fraud happened before his employment with Teton County.

Court records show Froehlich has a pre-trial scheduled for February 12 in Boise and a jury trial scheduled for February 20.

Nate's brother, 25 year old Matt Froehlich, is also being investigated by the state attorney general's office for abuse of power.

He has not been suspended and is still on the job. He has been under investigation for the past six months.

Sheriff Kim Cooke is having surgery and is out of the office for three weeks but the Sheriff's office did confirm the deputies are being investigated.

Officials within the department can't release specific details on the cases but say they not trying to cover up anything and when they have information that can be released, they will let the public know.

Along with Channel 3, The Teton Valley News Newspaper in Driggs has also been investigating these cases.

Stacy Simonet, Teton Valley News Publisher: "It is a separate investigation that the attorney general's office is conducting and we were told that it has to do with the abuse of police power."

The Teton Valley News has also been following the story of Bobby the dog who was shot by deputy Gutierrez.

Simonet gets the feeling the community wants to learn from the event and move on.

Simonet: "I think people just want there to be a good outcome. They want an ordinance that clearly defines how situations like this could be handled and possibly they would like to see an animal control officer because we do have a big dog problem in the valley."

In this Thursday's issue, the newspaper will have more on these cases.

No word on when the investigations by the attorney generals office will be complete.

Next week the sheriff's office is planning to meet with county commissioners to discuss the state of the department.