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Tasers and stun gun sales are surging.

FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) - Fall River police officers have been cleared of any wrongdoing in the death of a man who died after police subdued him with a stun gun. The Bristol District Attorney's concluded that officers did not use excessive force against Scott Macomber after the 48-year-old Brockton man allegedly interfered with the arrest of a woman last May...

A New Bedford woman says she was robbed by a group of young men she believes were armed with a stun gun early Friday morning. The 32-year-old woman told police she was walking home from the 7-Eleven on Cove Road around 12:15 A.M. Friday when a group of five to seven young black men began following her from the store...

New Bedford Police say two men have been arrested in connection with a series of robberies where a stun gun was used.

Taunton Police are investigating after a stun gun was used in a robbery Wednesday night.

New Bedford Police are investigating another store robbery where a stun gun was used.

New Bedford Police are looking for a suspect in connection with an armed robbery Wednesday night.

Fairhaven Police are searching for a man in connection with a robbery in the town. Police say a man entered Jackson's Variety Store on Sconticut Neck Road late Sunday night, and threatened the clerk with a pink stun gun. The man fled the store with an undetermined amount of money...

A Connecticut man police say had a meat cleaver, a stun gun and swords in his vehicle in an employee parking lot at Gillette Stadium has been held on $17,500 bail. Not guilty pleas were entered on behalf of 48-year-old Matthew Bromson, of North Granby, Connecticut, on Monday in Wrentham District Court to charges of trespassing, disorderly conduct, possession of an electric stun gun and assault wit

A report by the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security places New Bedford at the top of the list of Massachusetts communities when it comes to the number of times officers used tasers or stun guns in 2014. According to the report, New Bedford officers used electronic control weapons, or ECWs, a total of 105 times last year, down from 125 in 2013, and 145 in 2012...