Cops assaulted, tased

A robbery suspect was nabbed and hospitalized yesterday after using a police officer's Taser to stun two other cops as the cops were trying to arrest him in Southwest Philadelphia.

Lt. John Walker, of the Southwest Detective Division, gave this account:

A 37-year-old woman was walking on the street about 7:30 a.m. when Alexander Wade, 25, of Southwest Philadelphia, approached her from behind, pistol-whipped her and demanded cash.

After taking $150 from the woman, Wade grabbed her, slammed her head against a nearby house and continued pistol-whipping her before fleeing.

The woman ran to a friend's house and called police, who happened to see a man fitting Wade's description on Glenmore Street near 65th.

Wade ran into an abandoned house on Gould Street near Woodland Avenue when police began chasing him, and cops trailed him to a bedroom on the second floor.

He fought three cops who were trying to subdue him and one of the officers eventually stunned him with a Taser.

"It had minimal effect," Walker said.

Wade snatched the cop's Taser and shocked two other cops who were trying to subdue him.

While the cops writhed in pain, the officer whose Taser Wade was using grabbed another officer's Taser and used it to subdue the suspect.

He was taken into custody and was hospitalized at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

The woman was taken to the same hospital, where she was in stable condition last night.

Wade, of 66th Street near Greenway Avenue, faces charges of robbery, assault, reckless endangerment, weapons violations and others, police said. The cops were not seriously injured.