Jermaine Sonnier

Less-than-lethal force

Officers attempted to stop a other on Westward Street around 7 p.m. during a narcotics investigation when the man bailed from the other and ran. During a foot chase, officers tasered the man but continued to struggle before restraining him, police said. Once they got him inside a police cruiser, he told officers that he'd swallowed drugs. The man was transported to a hospital by ambulance and died while en route.