DULUTH, Ga. – A man wanted out of Texas was arrested in Duluth after being tased by officers during a brief foot chase early Tuesday morning, according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n
What we know<\/p>\n
In a Facebook post, the department stated that the incident happened just after midnight on Tuesday at Abbotts Bridge Park, which was closed at the time of the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Police officers came across a suspicious vehicle and made contact with the driver. Officers discovered the driver was wanted out of Texas for an aggravated assault probation violation.<\/p>\n
While they were waiting to get confirmation of the driver’s warrant, police asked the driver to step out of the vehicle.<\/p>\n
Once the warrant was confirmed, officers attempted to arrest the driver, but he resisted and ran away.<\/p>\n
The officers then tased the suspect and were able to take him into custody. Police said the suspect is facing an additional obstruction charge.\u00a0<\/p>\n
What we don’t know<\/p>\n
The Duluth Police Department did not release the suspect’s identity.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It is unclear if officers gave the suspect a warning or an order to stop before deploying the Taser.<\/p>\n
Police did not say if the suspect was injured in the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Source<\/p>\n
The information in this story came from a Facebook post from the Duluth Police Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DULUTH, Ga. – A man wanted out of Texas was arrested in Duluth after being tased by officers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[137425,137512,5893,2927,85068,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-390326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-duluth","tag-duluth-police-department","tag-facebook","tag-police-officers","tag-suspicious-vehicle","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}