Officer to face third charge in Taser incident

URBANA – Prosecutors filed a new charge Friday against a Champaign County corrections officer accused of using a Taser improperly on a jail inmate.

Judge Thomas Difanis arraigned Sgt. William Alan Myers, 37, of Pesotum on a new Class 4 felony charge of disorderly conduct.

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