Police Give Report on Stun Gun Use to D.A. : Ventura: The department interviewed 32 witnesses. An officer had repeatedly shocked a man who had just suffered an epileptic seizure.

The Ventura Police Department forwarded to county prosecutors Thursday a report on the possible criminal conduct of a traffic officer who last month repeatedly used a stun gun on a driver still groggy from an epileptic seizure.

The department’s report, compiled after interviews with 32 witnesses to the June 23 incident, was completed Thursday, Lt. Pat Rooney said. He would not comment on its findings.

Kevin J. McGee, chief deputy district attorney, said his office probably will decide whether to file assault or battery charges against Officer Steven Mosconi by the end of the month.

The case is only the second involving allegations of excessive force to be submitted by the Ventura Police Department to prosecutors since 1986, McGee said. No charges were filed in the first case.

Police began investigating the conduct of Mosconi, a 14-year veteran, two weeks ago after newspaper accounts of the incident.

A separate administrative inquiry to determine whether Mosconi violated department policy should be completed today, Rooney said. The officer remains on duty.

Mosconi acknowledged in a report that he shocked Donn Christensen Jr., 26, of Ventura up to nine times with a stun gun after the man--still disoriented from a seizure--refused to turn over his keys or get out of his truck.

Christensen, who had passed out while driving and caused a minor auto accident, was sitting behind the wheel when Mosconi arrived, the officer said. Christensen was glassy-eyed, Mosconi reported, and a paramedic told him that the driver had suffered a seizure.

Christensen and two witnesses told The Times that Mosconi not only used his 50,000-volt Nova gun to force the driver out of his truck but shocked him at least twice after he was standing passively next to the vehicle.

The incident marked the second time in 4 1/2 months that the department’s use of stun guns had sparked a controversy.

Duane Johnson, a 24-year-old psychiatric patient with heart disease, died in February shortly after police shocked him repeatedly with the weapons while he was strapped to a hospital gurney.

The department cleared the officers. But the county coroner, declaring the guns a primary cause of Johnson’s death, called for restrictions on their use.

Police Chief Richard F. Thomas, responding to community outcry about the Christensen incident, last week announced a new policy that forbids officers from using the weapons to force non-threatening crime suspects to comply with orders.

The weapons can still be used in more serious situations where suspects pose a danger to officers or the public.