Deputy Released From Hospital After Santa Cruz Escapee Attack
SANTA CRUZ (CBS 5 / AP) – A Santa Cruz County sheriff’s deputy allegedly beaten and attacked with a Taser by an inmate who escaped from her custody is out of the hospital. Santa Cruz County sheriff’s...
View ArticleSheriff: Santa Cruz Inmate Faked Injury To Escape
SANTA CRUZ (CBS 5 / AP) — A Santa Cruz County inmate who beat a sheriff’s deputy and stole her gun likely faked a shoulder injury as part of his escape plan, authorities said Wednesday. Santa Cruz...
View ArticleSanta Cruz Inmate Faces 29 Charges In Armed Escape
SANTA CRUZ (BCN) — The Santa Cruz County District Attorney’s Office Tuesday filed 29 charges against an armed jail inmate who allegedly attacked a sheriff’s deputy last week at a hospital in Santa Cruz...
View ArticleWomen Stun-Gunned, Robbed In San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) – Two San Francisco women were shocked with a stun gun and robbed while sitting in their car Wednesday evening in the city’s Balboa Terrace neighborhood, according to police. The...
View ArticleSan Francisco Police To Explore Taser Use Following Vote
SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) – The San Francisco Police Commission voted 6-1 Wednesday night to allow the Police Department to look into the use of Tasers by officers, nearly a year after shooting down a...
View ArticleEx-BART Officer Johannes Mehserle Released From Jail
LOS ANGELES (CBS/AP) – Now that a former Bay Area Rapid Transit officer convicted of fatally shooting an unarmed man has been released from jail, he is also free on unsupervised parole. Johannes...
View ArticleMehserle Spending Time With Family, Lawyer Says
OAKLAND (CBS SF) — Former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle is spending time with his family this week after his release from jail for killing BART passenger Oscar Grant III, his attorney said...
View ArticleNorCal Man Tasers Transvestite In Price Fight Over Sex Act
SALINAS (CBS SF) – Two men were arrested Tuesday night near Soledad after getting into a fight over money for sex, according to the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies responded to a report of a...
View ArticleStun Gun Used To Steal Woman’s Cellphone In SF Japantown
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – A woman was robbed of her iPhone in San Francisco’s Japantown neighborhood Thursday night by four people armed with a stun gun, police said. The 26-year-old woman had been...
View ArticleSacramento Deputies Use Stun Gun On Air Passenger
SACRAMENTO (CBS / AP) — Airport officials in California say local authorities used a stun gun on an airline passenger who refused to complete the security screening process. Sacramento International...
View ArticlePeninsula Park Ranger Uses Stun Gun On Man Walking Dogs Off-Leash
MONTARA (CBS/AP) — A park spokesman said a man walking his dogs in San Mateo County was hit with a stun gun only after it “developed into a more serious law enforcement situation.” Passers-by in the...
View ArticleRep. Speier Calls For Investigation Into Dog Walker Tasing
MONTARA (CBS SF) – Congresswoman Jackie Speier is asking an independent party to investigate whether park regulations were violated and excessive force was used in an incident Sunday in which a park...
View ArticleOfficers Taser, Pepper Spray Hallucinating San Jose State Student
SAN JOSE (CBS SF) – San Jose State University police used a Taser and pepper spray to subdue an allegedly aggressive student who was wandering around a residence hall on campus on Monday night,...
View ArticleThieves Use Stun Gun On Driver During East Palo Alto Carjacking
EAST PALO ALTO (CBS/AP) — Auto thieves used a stun gun to subdue a motorist during a Northern California carjacking. The Palo Alto Daily News reported three men, one of them armed with a handgun and...
View ArticleVictim Shot With Stun Gun In SF Outer Sunset Robbery
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – A man was shocked with a stun-gun during a robbery in San Francisco’s Outer Sunset neighborhood on Saturday night, police said Tuesday. The robbery was reported at 9:31 p.m....
View ArticleMan Attacked With Stun Gun During SF Mission District Home Invasion Robbery
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) - A man was shocked with a stun gun during a home invasion robbery in San Francisco’s Mission District early Sunday morning, police said Tuesday. The robbery was reported around...
View ArticleMan Tasered In Petaluma After Leading Police On 100 MPH Chase
PETALUMA (CBS SF) – Officers in Petaluma had to use a Taser early Monday to subdue and arrest a man who led police on a 100 mph chase after they attempted to stop a pickup truck identified as stolen, a...
View ArticleMan Accused In Sierra LaMar Killing Faces New Charges
SANTA CLARA (KCBS) – The man accused of kidnapping and killing Morgan Hill teenager Sierra LaMar is facing new charges for three previous attempted kidnappings, Santa Clara County prosecutors said...
View ArticleMugger Reportedly Tases Woman In The Face In Daytime SF Attack
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – A San Francisco woman tells the blog Haighteration that she was waiting for the bus near Divisadero and Haight St. when a man demanding her phone attacked her and shot her in...
View ArticleKnife-Wielding Man Tased At Oakland Children’s Hospital
OAKLAND (CBS SF) - Deputies used a Taser to subdue a man who was armed with a knife in the lobby of Children’s Hospital and Research Center Oakland Monday morning, authorities said. The incident...
View ArticleBay Area Dog Walker Hit With Stun Gun Sues Park Service
MONTARA (CBS / AP) — A San Mateo County man is suing the National Park Service and a park ranger who allegedly shot him with a stun gun for being uncooperative about his off-leash dog. In a federal...
View ArticleWoman Uses Stun Gun To Break Up Fight On BART Train
PLEASANT HILL (KCBS) – A woman riding a San Francisco-bound Bay Area Rapid Transit train used a stun gun to break up a fight between two other passengers, according to authorities. Just before 8:00...
View ArticleSan Francisco Police Chief Withdraws Stun Gun Proposal Amid Opposition
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) — San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr told the Police Commission that he is dropping his proposal to arm some officers with stun guns because of the “onerous” restrictions of...
View ArticleStudent Hit With Stun-Gun By Classmate At SF Potrero Hill School
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – A female student is being questioned after allegedly using a stun gun on another student at a school in San Francisco’s Potrero Hill neighborhood Wednesday, police and school...
View ArticleCotati Man’s Video Shows Police Barging Into Home, Using Stun Gun
COTATI (KPIX 5) — A Sonoma County man’s video that shows police officers kicking in a door and using a stun gun on him has gone viral and is raising questions about the constitutionality of police...
View ArticleBerkeley’s Police Officers Association Makes Push To Arm Cops With Tasers
BERKELEY (KCBS)— The Berkeley Police Officers Association is releasing an online citizen’s survey on the use of Tasers and would like the city to explore arming the police force with the devices. The...
View ArticleVideo Surfaces Of BART Officer Repeatedly Using Stun Gun On Passenger
SAN BRUNO (KPIX 5) – Video has been obtained by KPIX 5 showing a BART police officer who repeatedly used a stun gun to subdue a passenger in front of other riders. A woman who witnessed the incident,...
View ArticleBART Police Defend Using Stun Gun On Passenger
SAN BRUNO (KPIX 5) – The chief of the BART Police Department defended the actions of an officer who repeatedly used a stun gun on a passenger late last month. Meanwhile, KPIX 5 has obtained a second...
View ArticleWatsonville Man Suspected In Stun Gun Attack Against Female Acquaintance
WATSONVILLE (CBS SF) — The Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office has an arrest warrant for a Watsonville man who attacked, punched and used a stun gun on a female acquaintance early Saturday before...
View ArticleJudge Rules Dog Walker’s Constitutional Rights Violated When Park Ranger...
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) — A federal judge ruled on Thursday against a National Park Service ranger who used a stun gun on a man for being uncooperative about his off-leash dog in an unincorporated San...
View ArticleVideo Shows Sonoma County DUI Suspect Being Roughed Up By Deputies, Taken To...
SANTA ROSA (KPIX 5) — A man is accusing the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office of brutality after he said he was seriously beaten by deputies in an incident caught on video. The video was taken in at the...
View ArticleDefense Witness In Oscar Grant Killing Contacted By Tulsa Deputy’s Lawyers In...
OKLAHOMA CITY (CBS SF) — A defense witness for the BART police officer who shot and killed Oscar Grant has been contacted by lawyers for the Tulsa, Oklahoma reserve deputy facing charges in the killing...
View ArticleTaser Unveils Smallest-Ever Stun Gun For Consumers
(CBS SF) – Taser International has released their smallest stun gun ever, marketing the devices for private citizens even as San Francisco as officials debate whether or not police officers should...
View ArticleCaught On Video: Suspects Use Stun Gun, Assault, Rob San Francisco Taxi Driver
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — San Francisco police have released video of a violent robbery involving four suspects and a taxi cab driver. It happened on August 2. In the video, the taxi driver is blurred....
View ArticleOakland Police Say Man Resisting Arrest Died After Being Tased
OAKLAND (CBS/AP) — A man who allegedly tried to flee the scene of a car crash died while in the custody of Oakland police after officers used an electronic stun gun to detain him. The San Francisco...
View ArticleSchool Security Officer Arrested For Using Stun Gun On Student
NORMANDY, MO (CBS Local) – A Missouri school security officer has been arrested after allegedly using a stun gun on a 14-year-old student. According to reports, the head of school security at Normandy...
View ArticleSuspects In Best Buy Robbery Used Stun Guns To Escape With Stolen Laptops
SAN BRUNO (CBS SF) – Surveillance cameras caught a pair of suspects in an armed robbery at Best Buy in San Bruno. It happened at about 8 p.m. Sunday, at the store located at 1250 El Camino Real. Police...
View ArticlePalo Alto Attempted Carjacking Suspect Arrested After Officer Uses Stun Gun
PALO ALTO (CBS SF) – A Palo Alto police officer used a stun gun on a man suspected of attempting to carjack a woman outside a coffee shop early Sunday morning. Police said the woman stopped by Peet’s...
View ArticleCapitol Siege: Man Photographed In Pelosi’s Office Charged With Weapons...
WASHINGTON (CBS SF) – A man photographed sitting in Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office during the violent siege of the U.S. Capitol by President Donald Trump’s supporters now faces 11 years in prison, after...
View ArticleCapitol Siege: Man Photographed In Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Office Enters Plea
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (CBS / AP) — An Arkansas man who was photographed sitting with his feet on a desk in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office during last month’s riot at the U.S. Capitol pleaded not...
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