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Man allegedly tasered
Four police officers are under investigation in Ocala, Florida, after a man accused them of using a Taser on him three times when he would not take his hand off a Koran under his shirt, a police spokesman said. Jeffrey Shields, 49, filed the complaint with the police, police spokesman Lou Biondi said on Friday. Shields said he did not want to raise his hand because he did not want to drop the Koran, but officers said they couldn't tell what he was holding. Officers were dispatched after receiving tips that an armed man was stashing drugs in a book, Biondi said. Neither drugs nor a gun were found.
■ UNITED STATES
Student arrested for `art'
A 19-year-old US college student was arrested on Friday after she walked into Boston's Logan International Airport wearing what authorities initially thought was an explosive device, police said. Star Simpson, a sophomore at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told police that the device -- a circuit board measuring roughly 5cm by 15cm, with protruding wires, lights and a nine-volt battery -- was an art project. "It was an innocuous device," Major Scott Pare of the Massachusetts State Police said at a press conference. Authorities said she would be charged with possession of a hoax device and disorderly conduct.
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