The Alexander City Police Department took into custody a suspect after deploying a TASER Thursday morning.

Law enforcement was called to Ridgeway Drive as a caller alerted dispatch of a suspicious person entering the woods. ACPD officers began a foot chase of a suspect who was stopped through the use of a TASER a few hundred yards away according to police chief Jay Turner. Moments later medics with Alexander City Fire Department tended to the suspect.

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Cliff Williams / The Outlook The Alexander City Police Department investigates a pedestrian that was struck on Washington Street Thursday morning.

Cliff Williams is a staff writer for Tallapoosa Publishers.