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Police use Taser on man three times in assault arrest

WILKES-BARRE &mdash; City police arrested Fawn Workman, 24, after he allegedly assaulted a woman and attempted to avoid arrest on Thursday.
				According to the criminal complaint:
				A woman told police she was driving when she saw Workman standing in the middle of the street blocking her vehicle. Workman got into the woman&rsquo;s vehicle and asked to be driven to Nanticoke.
				When she refused, Workman told the woman to drive him to the Intermodal Bus Terminal.
				Workman spotted several police officers at the bus terminal and told the woman to continue to drive or he would beat her up, the complaint says.
				As they argued, she claimed Workman swung at her, causing her to swerve the vehicle. She stopped at South Pennsylvania Avenue and Dana Street, where Workman allegedly punched her before he got out.
				She told police Workman threw his cell phone and punched the windshield of her vehicle, the complaint says. 
				Police spotted Workman hiding between vehicles at Sambourne and Wood streets. Workman ran from an officer and was arrested in a parking lot.
				Police in the complaint said they found suspected marijuana and a pipe in Workman&rsquo;s pocket and suspected marijuana, methamphetamine and a syringe inside a backpack he was carrying.
				Police said Workman has an active arrest warrant in Scranton on allegations he failed to appear for court proceeding in Lackawanna County.
				Workman, of State Street, Nanticoke, was arraigned by District Judge James Haggerty in Kingston on charges of flight to avoid apprehension, simple assault, reckless endangerment, criminal mischief, possession of a controlled substance, possession of a small amount of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and harassment. He was jailed at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility for lack of $10,000 bail.

Man runs from police after allegedly assaulting woman