Pa. university student jailed for Tasering police officer

GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A western Pennsylvania university student will serve five to 23 months in jail for grabbing a police officer’s Taser gun and shooting her with it while she was trying to arrest him.

Jeremy Spisak, 20, of McDonald, Pa., was sentenced Monday after pleading no contest in January to disarming a law enforcement officer and other charges.

Greensburg police say Spisak took the Taser from Officer Regina Depelligrin when she responded to a reported break-in at Seton Hill University on March 28, 2008. Spisak was a student at the private, Catholic school about 30 miles east of Pittsburgh.

Spisak was arrested when another officer subdued him with his Taser.