Police department shut down after an officer tasers a nine year old boy.

Mount Sterling, OH- Officials said the small police force in a central Ohio village was shut down after an officer used a stun gun on a 9-year-old boy and the police chief didn't tell village leaders about it.

McCoy didn’t tell village officials after the Tuesday incident, and that prompted the suspension, Anderson said.

Village Administrator Joe Johnson, in violation of state open-records laws, refused to release the report on what the village is calling “an incident involving use of force.” Mayor Charlie Neff said in a statement only that the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation has been asked to investigate.

Madison County Prosecutor Steve Pronai, however, said police were called to an apartment on S. Market Street in the Madison County village because Michelle Perry said her son, Jared, wouldn’t go to school. From there, Pronai said he doesn’t know much about it except that the situation escalated and Officer Scott O’Neil used a Taser on the boy.

State investigators were asked to look into the officer's use of force, Mayor Charlie Neff said. Council President Lowell Anderson said Chief Mike McCoy was suspended for not reporting what happened and that part-time officers no longer are working.
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