10-07-2025
Retired police sergeant gets 6 months in prison for Taser attack on man in mental health crisis
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — A retired police sergeant in a New York suburb has been sentenced to six months in prison and six months of home confinement for repeatedly firing a Taser gun at a man suffering a health crisis.
U.S. District Judge Kenneth M. Karas told the retired Mount Vernon police sergeant, Mario Stewart, that it was necessary 'to send a clear message' to law enforcement that although policing is a 'really hard,' there are rules and 'where the line is clear, you cannot cross it.'
