An employee sleeping in an ambulance had a rude awakening when a man and woman jumped in the vehicle and took off with the employee in the back, leading police on a 50-mile chase to Edgewood and back to Albuquerque before they were caught, according to the Albuquerque Police Department.
Police say the Superior Ambulance Services employee was asleep around 3 a.m. Saturday in the ambulance parked at the Lovelace Medical Center near Martin Luther King Jr. and Broadway when 41-year-old Mike Neal Schildt and 38-year-old Alisa Quam started driving the ambulance east on Central Avenue.
Police found the vehicle near Pennsylvania and Central, [ed note: about 5 miles] where it slowed down and the employee was able to jump out. He was not injured in the incident, and police had not released his identity Saturday night.
The ambulance then continued onto Interstate 40 eastbound with police in pursuit.
The driver left the freeway at the Edgewood exit [ed note: about 30 miles.] and turned around onto westbound I-40, heading back into the city.
Officers and Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office deputies put down spike belts, deflating the ambulance’s tires, and it stopped on I-40 over Tramway.
Schildt and Quam were arrested and charged with aggravated eluding, unlawful taking of a motor vehicle and kidnapping, and both were on a no-bond hold Saturday night. Both have had many previous run-ins with the law, according to Metro Court records.
APD spokesman Simon Drobik said it’s unclear if the pair stole the ambulance to try to get somewhere or to possibly steal narcotics from the vehicle – he said he didn’t know their motive.
“Never in 15 years of work have I seen an ambulance stolen,” Drobik said. “Buses, school buses, but never an ambulance.”
Source: http://www.abqjournal.com/350486/news/50mile-chase-in-stolen-ambulance-2.html
I dunno about anyone else, but that's an incident report I'd hate to write.
Police say the Superior Ambulance Services employee was asleep around 3 a.m. Saturday in the ambulance parked at the Lovelace Medical Center near Martin Luther King Jr. and Broadway when 41-year-old Mike Neal Schildt and 38-year-old Alisa Quam started driving the ambulance east on Central Avenue.
Police found the vehicle near Pennsylvania and Central, [ed note: about 5 miles] where it slowed down and the employee was able to jump out. He was not injured in the incident, and police had not released his identity Saturday night.
The ambulance then continued onto Interstate 40 eastbound with police in pursuit.
The driver left the freeway at the Edgewood exit [ed note: about 30 miles.] and turned around onto westbound I-40, heading back into the city.
Officers and Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office deputies put down spike belts, deflating the ambulance’s tires, and it stopped on I-40 over Tramway.
Schildt and Quam were arrested and charged with aggravated eluding, unlawful taking of a motor vehicle and kidnapping, and both were on a no-bond hold Saturday night. Both have had many previous run-ins with the law, according to Metro Court records.
APD spokesman Simon Drobik said it’s unclear if the pair stole the ambulance to try to get somewhere or to possibly steal narcotics from the vehicle – he said he didn’t know their motive.
“Never in 15 years of work have I seen an ambulance stolen,” Drobik said. “Buses, school buses, but never an ambulance.”
Source: http://www.abqjournal.com/350486/news/50mile-chase-in-stolen-ambulance-2.html
I dunno about anyone else, but that's an incident report I'd hate to write.
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