"Stunning Arrest": Officer uses stun gun...on himself

(CBS) ELGIN, Ill. - A struggle between police in the Chicago suburb of Elgin and a 40-year-old man accused of stiffing a cab driver ended up with the suspect and two police officers in the hospital - including one officer who drew his stun gun, and shot himself in hand, CBS Chicago reported.

Police said the incident began about 7:45 a.m. Sunday when a cab driver called to report that a customer dropped off at an Elgin apartment building had failed to pay his fare. The man went into an apartment, but never came back out to pay up, the cabbie said.

According to CBS Chicago, officers located the rider inside the apartment, convinced him to pay the fare and left. Then, suspicious about the name the man had given them, they checked a police database of photos and found that he appeared to match the description of a Glendale Heights man with four outstanding arrest warrants.

So officers went back to the apartment building to arrest him. They found him naked - told him to put some clothes on. That's when according to police accounts, he allegedly tackled one officer to the ground. A second officer drew a stun gun, but it misfired, striking that officer in the hand.

The suspect bolted from the apartment, but one of the officers managed to tackle him. CBS Chicago reports that eventually officers subdued the man by using the stun gun on the suspect, as intended.

The man, identified as Federico Solarzano, was charged with felony aggravated battery and three felony counts of resisting arrest, plus a misdemeanor charge of obstructing identification. He was treated at the hospital, then taken to the city jail after.

According to reports, two police officers were treated at the Sherman Hospital's emergency room - one for puncture wounds caused by the stun gun misfire and the other for injuries to his shoulder and hip.