A CAREER CRIMINAL IN CHICAGO, Illinois, hopped into an ambulance on Saturday morning while the crew was in the back tending to a patient, and started driving away wih the emergency lights activated. “This is Ambulance 23. Our ambulance has been stolen and we are in the back with a patient,” radio’d one of the two medics onboard.
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Truck 26 had just left the scene after assisting the medic crew and heard the call. They turned around and did an end run to the end of the street three blocks away where they effectively blocked the ambulance from progressing. Just then several police officers swarmed the scene and arrested Jimmy McCoy, 27, who turned out to be a relative of the patient. He misguidedly assumed he would help the ambulance crew by driving to the hospital while they were busy.
In a criminal court hearing yesterday (Sunday) he was charged with felony possession of a stolen motor vehicle and held on $50,000 bond.
McCoy has four felony convictions on drug charges and one attempted robbery, Assistant State’s Atty. Michael Cheronis said in court. Police said McCoy had previously been arrested 32 times. Not said is why they keep letting him back out again.
Read the full account in the Chicago Sun-Times HERE.
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