Armed Santa Cruz Inmate Captured After Escape
SANTA CRUZ (CBS 5 / AP / BCN) ― A Santa Cruz County jail inmate who escaped custody by using a stun gun on a sheriff’s deputy, taking her handgun and then shooting at a woman, was recaptured late...
View ArticleDeputy 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...
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