Columbus police used a Taser to subdue a suspect in a check fraud case at a local bank last week.

Lt. Matt Harris, spokesman with the police department says that police were called to a bank on 26th Street at about 3 p.m. on Thursday about a man allegedly trying to cash stolen checks. When police arrived, the suspect tried to run away. But police hit the man with a Taser.

When police searched the suspect, 21-year-old Blake R. Nichols, they allegedly found drug paraphernalia and heroin.

Nichols was arrested on preliminary felony charges of fraud on a financial institution, possession of a legend drug injection device and heroin, in addition to several misdemeanor charges including possession of stolen property.