Police use Taser on ‘erractic’ vandalism suspect

Police officers deployed a conductive energy weapon to deal with an armed man in a Vernon neighborhood Wednesday morning.

Residents in the 4900 block of Heritage Drive in Vernon were woken around 4:30 a.m.by a man attempting to smash out a window in a parked vehicle.

Police responded to calls that said the man was behaving erratically and beating on a parked vehicle with a lacrosse stick.

“When front line officers attended the location, they discovered the lone man pacing behind vehicles armed with a knife,” said Cpl. Tania Finn, media relations officer. “Police attempted to speak with the man in an effort to de-escalate the situation. However, after the man attempted to run at officers with the knife in his hand, an officer deployed a conducted energy weapon [Taser] to successfully take the man into custody without further incident”