Police Arrest Suspect Who Allegedly Tasered Elderly Woman

"Positive-One" indeed.....

Before your comment is deleted by admin - I'll agree with you that security footage isn't usually HD unfortunately.

Stoner - I'll guess if this person is a local there is enough depicted in the photo for someone that knows her identify her by name.

yeah, hypocrisy in asking the community to help its COMMUNITY.

please leave as soon as possible.

Agreed. Gosh darn it those that have already been arrested are entitled to their privacy. Jokes

That's right JEFF, our justice system is built on the presumption of innocence, not judgment by the court of public opinion. Count your lucky stars you are not one of many who have been wrongly accused and arrested.

Without those pesky mug shots, it is a lot easier to make people disappear.

TJ - Deleted by admin? It’s an expression of opinion which I’m entitled to, same as you

SBSTONER, just so you know... this is a private website, thus you're not entitled to anything and comments can be removed for any reason. Ed is very reasonable though, and I am thankful for that. Multiple POVs are a good thing.

Thanks for the clarification. As if I’m not aware how non .gov websites work. I just know that seeing as Edhat is a reasonable space it’s ridiculous of someone to think that my comment will get deleted just because they disagree with it.

Thanks for the internet education though, it’s very pc of you to let me know.

Probably not a real taser like the cops have, but something that delivers a strong, but not debilitating shock

Exactly. "Tasered several times." Most taser models needs to be reloaded after discharge. There is a back up shot model available, but no one is being tasered "several times." She would be incapacitated on the ground, writhing, and need a good amount of time to come to, especially if hit multiple times! Looks like it happened outside CVS. There are always lots of people around there milling around it the parking lot, etc. No one saw or came to the aid of an elderly woman on the ground? Dubious. The PD would also probably be able to find puncture wounds in the flesh or her clothing to verify the taser darts. There's a reason they put "taser" in quotations.

"There's a reason they put "taser" in quotations." - yeah, likely because it's being used inappropriately as a verb in the report. I doubt it was some underhanded or sneaky attempt by the police to insinuate doubt that the attack even happened. Not everything is a conspiracy or detective novel.

Basic: CVS at State and Calle Laureles.

Lots of older people are scratching to make ends meet due to the devaluation of the money they saved over their lifetimes. The dollar they put away in 1984 would have bought a cup of coffee and a donut at a bakery. Now it takes $3 to buy only a cup of coffee. The interest banks paid on savings the last 20 years was nearly zero--can't say that about prices.

LUVADUCK if you keep your life's savings solely in a savings account with meager interest, and suggest you find a financial planner ASAP! There's no reason a dollar put away for 40 years should not have tripled in value by now, make your money work for you!

We’ll all be old sometime, if we are lucky. Use the time in line to breathe deeply and be thankful for your youth, swift mind, and nimble fingers.

Not a personal disclosure on a public forum. Those most adversely affected are those with the least financial sophistication and probably the least assets. A core econ class in high school covering the cost of credit and how to budget would be a huge aid to many. It would help many accumulate enough to require and pay a financial advisor.

It was a general observation, not a personal financial disclosure on a public forum. A core econ class in high school teaching when & how to use credit and how to budget help most people more.

SBT - how is there "no way" she was tasered? Were you there? That's a pretty bold statement to make about a reported crime.

Well, Sac, you can find puncture marks in a victim's flesh or clothing if they were tased, for one. That would verify the crime. The PD put the word "tasered" in quotes for a reason. And they have only reasonable suspicion, not probable cause - probably because the evidence of the claims is lacking or not lining up with the victim's statement. I believe the victim was possibly electrocuted somehow, but with the type of thing you get on Amazon.com to defend against your favorite breed of dog, not a taser, which is an entirely different weapon. That's why they "want to question her" - not arrest her - and there is currently no warrant out.

Could the weapon have been a "stun gun" and mistakenly reported by the victim as a "taser?"

Doulie, yes, I am thinking exactly along your lines. I believe this woman probably was attacked with a handheld close-range electrocution device, but highly unlikely it was a taser.

Might not have been a "stun gun", but it could have been:
https://www.stun-gun-defense-products.com/buy-stun-gun/taser-strikelight-stun-flashlig.html
Only $129.99 free shipping, says it's great for camp-outs & "Modern and sleek design to fit your style"... There's stuff OUT there, that's all I'm saying...

BICYCLIST - exactly. Arguing that she wasn't "tasered" because of the type of device is like saying someone wasn't "shot" with a spear gun, rather they were "speared." It's just petty semantics based on assumptions. The woman obviously felt she was zapped, stunned, shocked, tased, or whatever you need to call it so the device isn't being "misrepresented" or something, but it's just petty argumentative semantics at this point.

As BICYCLISTS and others have pointed out, there's any number of electric-based devices she could have been attacked with. The specific name/type doesn't really matter.

Excessively dramatic, SACJON. *One* person claimed it didn't happen. While I tend to agree with you on many things, honestly your comments have become increasingly pedantic and nitpicky over time. Hope you're doing alright outside of the interwebz.

11:18 - You're right, I need to work on that. All fine and dandy, but I am getting too wrapped up on this. It just really grabs my gullet when people make verifiably false proclamations of "fact" and then refuse to concede and even double down. In this day and age, false "facts" and other misinformation have been proven to be dangerous. I guess false facts about a local taser attack is not one to focus my energy on so much.

Another thing though, I always tend to think of the families of victims in stories on this site and when people like SBTOWNIE come to the thread with outrageous claims or demands, it bothers me to think the family and/or friends are reading those and seeing someone belittle and/or demand personal information about the situation or in this case, outright accuse the victim of lying.

But, overall you are right, thanks for the reminder. It's Friday, time for me to relax!

No one is doubting she was attacked. It's a strange accusation many are making to say that anyone questioning the "taser"/"tasered" part of this story is then necessarily saying nothing happened. I don't know what happened. What I know now is the facts we currently have (which are limited) don't really support the likelihood of a taser being used. To those of us familiar with tasers, it sounds like she may have been attacked with a different close-range device that likely delivered far less power than a taser. I have not seen one comment here doubting this happened or accusing her of making up the attack. A taser is a serious weapon and will take someone down, especially and even more so if it is deployed on someone multiple times as some of the multi-fire devices can do.

SBT - "What I know now is the facts we currently have (which are limited) don't really support the likelihood of a taser being used. " - How so? What facts suggest she wasn't attacked with some device? Whether it's a "technical" taser device or not is irrelevant. Who cares if it was a full on police-issue taser or a weaker, common device. What's the point?

Basic - Looking at flashlight photo in this article, in the front (bulb) end positioned from two sides towards the center there are two prongs. In the article this flashlight is identified as a "flashlight-taser." The prongs lead me to believe this is a "flashlight-stun gun."

SBTownie, I also don’t understand why you know for sure the victim was not tasered. Just say why, educate me. What do you know?

It's not a Taser, Sac. Try reading Wikipedia on Taser and electroshock devices which spells out explicitly that the Taser term is misused. The PD is dumbing down the language for the masses who misuse the word taser. A taser will incapacitate people. A device you buy on Amazon is not capable of this. Just because the public cannot use correct language doesn't mean I'm wrong. I am actually correct technically and factually correct. This is akin to saying you were macheted when someone jabbed you with a keychain Swiss army knife. This is not a taser and the PD is not correct in labeling it such. There is a reason LEO use Tasers - they can completely stop and fell people through neuromuscular incapacitation. This flashlight cannot do that at all. It is a different weapon and just because language is being misused doesn't mean I'm incorrect. This should be my last commend on EdHat as I've requested to have my account deleted. I wish you all well but the bullying and pile ons here has truly become pathological and untethered from reality. The claims I said this woman made up her attack are the perfect example. I said no such thing and it is willfully deceitful to claim I did. I said she was not Tasered. And she was not.

You're amazing. From Dictionary.com:

"tase
[ teyz ]

Middle School Level
verb (used with object) tased, tas·ing.
(sometimes initial capital letter) to electrically stun (a living target) using a Taser or similar stun gun:"

She was, by definition of the term, TASED, consistent with the SBPD report. I wish you luck in all the other battles with cold, hard reality you will choose to wage with that "thick skin" of yours. Godspeed!

Excuse me sir, that is not a Kleenex, its a tissue! Those are not Popsicles, they're frozen fruit pops on a stick! That is not a Xerox copy, its a photocopy! They are not playing with a Frisbee, its a flying disc! One does not Google something, you search for it!

Is there anything more dull than a dullard nitpicking about something as inane as a registered brand name vs the common lexicon? phhhhffff

Love it SBO, that’s funny

Seemed to me there was more to the story than the initial account that the attack was "unprovoked". People are f*ing crazy, not worth getting into a verbal altercation with a stranger at CVS, you never know who you're dealing with.