Stolen Ambulance
Ambulances are regularly stolen from hospital emergency departments and incidents. Locking the ambulance is an absolute duty and should be a policy for every agency, as well as a habit for every EMS provider, like wearing a seatbelt.
Stories about patients stealing ambulances are common, so here’s how you can protect your vehicle
An ambulance security New Year’s resolution
An Ogden Fire Department crew was treating a patient inside a building when the rig was taken from the scene
An Orange City Fire Department ambulance was stolen as paramedics were dropping off a patient at Foothill Regional Medical Center
A Mobile Medical Response ambulance was stolen from outside a Bay City hospital
GPS tracking helped Greeley police locate the UCHealth ambulance
A person who had called to request a Brownsville Fire/EMS ambulance ended up hopping into the driver’s seat and stealing the ambulance
Paramedics jumped out of the moving ambulance before the pursuit crossed two counties
While a Crittenden EMS crew was inside Regional One, a patient reportedly left the hospital and stole a Memphis Fire Department ambulance from the bay
Idaho authorities found the Treasure Valley ambulance 100 miles away from its base in Ontario
Helicopter and body-worn camera footage shows Lee County Sheriff’s Office deputies arresting a woman after she stole an ambulance from a hospital
Police in Eden used stop sticks to halt a stolen Rockingham County EMS ambulance
Brian Paladino with the Willoughby Hills Fire Department jumped into the ambulance’s open passenger window to prevent the thief from fleeing
Spike strip, pepper balls used to stop a man who stole a Sacramento Fire Department EMS captain’s pickup truck
Cabell County medics were inside a house treating a patient when the man jumped into their rig and drove off
A man led police on a pursuit across two counties before crashing after a PIT maneuver
An AMR supervisor rolled down his window to ask if a man standing in the road was okay; the man approached the ambulance and “began throwing himself at the window, gaining access to the ambulance”
The ambulance was stolen shortly after the medic crew arrived at a call regarding a potential psychiatric patient
Fairfax County police said the suspect had not yet been discharged from the hospital but walked away with an IV in his arm
Kahlil Lock injured a Hazel Park paramedic before getting into the driver’s seat
Vancouver paramedics were treating a patient when their squad was stolen and later abandoned
The ambulance came to a stop on the lawn right in front of the entrance of the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office
Yengi R. Lado, 27, was convicted of a felony count of second-degree grand larceny and was ordered to pay $250,000 in restitution
Harrison Barjolo crashed an Ashburnham ambulance at Heywood Hospital during a police pursuit
Ammanuel Owar Ojha stole the East Hills ambulance from out front of of Select Specialty Hospital
Dezire Raequan Goldman stole the ambulance and drove nearly 20 miles before being noticed by police
Yengi Lado stole the Ogdensburg ambulance last year from outside a hospital and drove it into a garage
Police officers used spike strips to stop one of the ambulances
Monroe County deputies pursued the stolen ambulance at speeds reaching nearly 90 mph on I-75
