ST. LOUIS – One person was taken into custody and accused of stealing an ambulance early Monday morning in north St. Louis.
City police were able to track down the stolen ambulance and take a woman into custody. Officers are receiving help in locating the stolen ambulance from a GPS tracking device.
Harney and Emerson in north city are where the ambulance was found just minutes after it was taken. That’s in the Walnut Park East neighborhood. ‘Medic One’ is on the side of the stolen ambulance. That is likely the company that the medical unit is from.
This all happened about 2:20 a.m. It is believed that the city dispatched the ambulance in response to a call regarding a potential psychiatric patient in the 2800 block of Arlington in north St. Louis. We’re told that moments after the medic crew arrived at that scene, the ambulance was stolen. Through GPS data on the ambulance that officials had given to officers in the field, police immediately began attempting to locate it.
It’s believed that the ambulance made two stops, including at a church, before police found it at Harney and Emerson, where the woman was taken into custody. That location is only a couple of miles away from where the ambulance was originally stolen. No injuries are being reported, although police told FOX 2 that the woman was taken to the hospital as a precaution.
It does not appear that any damage was done to the ambulance. At this point, authorities aren’t releasing details about how the ambulance was able to be stolen in the first place.
FOX 2 will update this story with more information as it becomes available.