WASHINGTON, June 16, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- TASER International, Inc. (Nasdaq:TASR), a market leader in advanced electronic control devices released the following News Alert:
According to news reports from The Pittsburgh Tribune Review, local police used a TASER device to incapacitate and arrest Travis Lee Moriarty, 24, of Manchester after he led police on a car and ground chase, broke into a home and then took a woman hostage on Thursday night, June 15.
City Street Response Unit officers saw Moriarty buying drugs in the Marshall/Shadeland section of the city. When Moriarty saw the officers he fled the scene and continued to elude police even after two collisions in stolen vehicles. After the second crash, Moriarty ran into a nearby home on Kearns Avenue and took a woman hostage. Police were finally able to deploy a TASER device through a smashed window and enter the home to arrest the suspect. The hostage was uninjured.
Police found 146 stamp bags of heroin on Moriarty's person as well as a Tech 9 semi-automatic under the passenger's seat in one of the vehicles he crashed. Moriarty has been charged with aggravated assault, burglary, robbery, unlawful restraint and other offenses.
This information was compiled through publicly available media reports and distributed by Dittus Communications, Inc. of Washington, D.C.
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