Murder suspect tasered before hearing

CROWN POINT, Ind. (AP) -- - Police used a stun gun to subdue a man before he appeared in court on charges that he and his girlfriend killed a toddler whose body was encased in concrete and dumped in a swampy area of northwestern Indiana.

A Lake County magistrate entered not guilty pleas Monday for 23-year-old Timothy Tkachik and 18-year-old Engelica Castillo. They are jailed without bond on murder charges in the death of 2-year-old Jada Justice of Portage.

Lake County Sheriff's Department spokesman Mike Higgins says Tkachik was shocked after he climbed onto a table in a holding cell and refused to get down.

Jada was the subject of a 10-day search after Castillo said she disappeared from a car while the baby-sitting teenager went into a Gary convenience store.