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SALT LAKE CITY -- Salt Lake City Police tased a man following a foot chase downtown.
Police say a retired officer spotted Werner Robert Ewert carrying a knife near 300 South and Main Street Monday afternoon.
The officer said Ewert looked frantic and was pacing up and down the street. The officer called 911.
When on-duty officers approached the man, Ewert took off.
They followed the man to the Hotel Monaco, where the officer deployed the Taser.
Salt Lake City police Lt. Craig Gleason said, "We had lawful reason to contact him, and we had a responsible suspicion that he was armed. We had someone with experience and training say, ‘I am pretty sure he had a knife.'"
Police say the knife fell out of Ewert's hand.
The man was taken to the hospital and booked into the Salt Lake County Jail.
He faces charges of fleeing from police, as well as other misdemeanors.
