DISTURBED WOMAN SUBDUED BY COPS

Police were forced to use a taser gun to restrain a 67-year-old emotionally disturbed woman armed with two kitchen knives last Saturday as she sat at the front door of her apartment in the Breukelen Houses complex .

According to officials from the 69th Precinct, patrol officers were called to the Farragut Road address at about 8 a.m. when neighbors said the woman had become violent. The officers called for backup assistance, including members of the Emergency Services Unit and Emergency Medical Service paramedics, while trying to calm her as she sat in the hallway. They said the woman, whose name was not released, was sitting in front of her apartment door wildly swinging the knives and yelling at the top of her voice.

The responding emergency unit officers — sometimes referred to as a SWAT (special weapons and tactics) team )— tried to calmly apprehend the woman but she continued to flail the knives. She was finally subdued after being hit in the chest with a taser dart.

The woman was restrained without further incident and police said she sustained a minor abrasion to her chest from the taser dart. No one else was injured.

The woman was taken to Brookdale Hospital by paramedics, with the patrol officers providing protective escort.