Police Taser man with warrants in Md, find stolen guns

Police Taser man with warrants in Md, find stolen guns

By RENEE FOX

Tribune Chronicle

WARREN ä A man from Maryland who was shot with a Taser by police Wednesday night, is scheduled to be arraigned today in Warren Municipal Court on three felony charges and a misdemeanor, according to a police report and court documents.

Ernest Ojahrashod Williams is being held in the Trumbull County Jail and may also face extradition to Maryland for three felony theft offenses.

In Warren, Williams is charged with two felony counts of carrying a concealed weapon, one count of having weapons under disability and misdemeanor resisting arrest.

Officer Zachary Jones pulled over the vehicle Williams was a passenger in around 11 p.m. for speeding near the intersections of Austin Avenue S.W. and Palmyra Road S.W., a police report states.

When asked for his identification, Jones wrote that he became suspicious of the way Williams seemed to be hiding his face. Discovering Williams had warrants out for his arrest in Maryland, Jones said he asked Williams to step out of the vehicle.

âGo! Go! You gotta go! Just drive,ã Williams said to the driver of the car as he grabbed the gear shifter, according to Jonesá report.

Jones stated he reached across the driver, as she cried, and removed the keys from the ignition. As officers ordered him out of the car, Williams kept trying to grab the gear shift, saying, âI canát go to prison,ã the report states.

Williamsá shirt was ripped as Jones tried to grab him and remove him from the car. Jones yelled, âTaser, Taser,ã and aimed at Williamsá back, firing the Taser prongs into Williamsá jacket.

The probes never made skin contact, and did not again after a second deployment, its use was ineffective, Jones wrote in the report.

Jones was able to pull Williams out of the car and eventually subdued and cuffed him on the ground, after he used his shoulder to hit him in the chest, Jones stated.

Williams told the officers he had two guns in his waistband, a loaded Smith and Wesson and a loaded single action Ruger, both with 357 Magnum cartridges, according to the report. The Smith and Wesson was determined to have been stolen from Ann Arbor, Mich.

Emergency responders examined Williams before he was taken to the jail.

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