Woman in Custody after Stealing Oklahoma City Ambulance

OKLAHOMA CITY (NEWS9) – Police say a woman stole an ambulance from a hospital early Sunday and took it for a joyride through southern Oklahoma City. EMSA says it began a little before 2 a.m. outside Integris. “We had a crew that was delivering a patient to a local emergency room,” EMSA Director of Regional Medical Response System Heather Yazdanipour said. Yazdanipour says paramedics were so busy taking a patient into the hospital that they forgot to take the ambulance keys with them into the emergency room. That’s when police say suspect Erica Toledo jumped into the ambulance and took off, driving through the city’s south side. EMSA and police were quickly able to track her every move. “We do have automatic vehicle locators or AVL, and that gives us distinct GPS locations,” Yazdanipour said. EMSA says police put out stop sticks and caught the vehicle at Southwest 25th and Broadway. News9.com - Oklahoma City, OK - News, Weather, Video and Sports |
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