SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., April 17, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- TASER International, Inc. (Nasdaq:TASR), a market leader in advanced electronic control devices (ECDs) released the following NEWS ALERT:
According to an article which appeared on the Portland Press Herald's MaineToday.com on April 16, 2008, police in South Portland, ME, used a TASER(r) ECD yesterday to disable a 47-year-old distraught woman who had called police to say she had cut her wrists and would later threaten police with two large 8- to 9-inch knives.
When South Portland police officers arrived, the woman had a knife in each hand and advanced upon the officers threatened to attack the police in order to force police to shoot her. Officer Kevin Battle deployed a TASER ECD to temporarily disable her so the woman could be taken to Maine Medical Center for evaluation and treatment of her self-inflicted injuries.
The incident was the fifth use of a TASER ECD device this year, South Portland (ME) police said. Three of the cases involved people with edged weapons, and through the use of TASER ECDs, officers did not have to resort to deadly force, police said.
The complete story is available at: http://news.mainetoday.com/updates/025554.html
This information was compiled through publicly available media reports and distributed by TASER International, Inc. of Scottsdale Arizona.
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