PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Police say someone stole a city-owned ambulance from outside a Rhode Island hospital and took it on a 40-mile joyride before being stopped in Connecticut.
Police say Providence Rescue 6 was taken from outside Rhode Island Hospital at about 6 a.m. Monday.
The suspect was pulled over on Interstate 95 in North Stonington, Connecticut.
Providence Public Safety Commissioner Steven Pare tells WPRO-AM the ambulances are sometimes left running so the electronics and computer equipment inside continues working.
Pare said it appeared is if a patient stole the ambulance, but the hospital says surveillance video showed that isn’t true, and that someone walked off the street to take it.
The suspect’s name was not immediately made public.
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