By Carolyn Scofield
WPTV
STUART, Fla. — Stuart Police and Martin County Sheriff’s detectives have two suspects in custody in connection with the theft of two medical supply boxes from two Martin County Fire Rescue ambulances.
Nicholas and Christopher Pizzo of Palm City are being held at the Martin County Jail and face burglary and grand theft charges. They were taken into custody by Detective Leo Ferreira of the Martin County Sheriff’s Office.
Surveillance cameras at Martin Memorial Medical Center caught one of the thefts Monday afternoon. The video shows a man opening an ambulance door and picking up a medical kit. He runs off with the box.
According to Stuart Police Nicholas Pizzo, a former Martin County firefighter, was seen on video opening a side door of the ambulance and running off with the drug box. His brother, Christopher, was waiting in a car and drove away.
The supply kits contain everything from bandages to morphine.
“We carry a number of pharmaceutical agents,” says Martin County Fire Rescue Division Chief Daniel Wouters. “Everything from cardiac drugs and narcotics and so forth for treating specific medical conditions and used in those medical conditions, they’re used quite safely, but in a normal circumstance with a person that doesn’t have a medical ailment or doesn’t know the appropriate dosage for these medications, they’re extremely harmful.”
Paramedics at Fire Station 21 in Palm City also noticed their supply box missing Monday night. Investigators say deputies picked up the Pizzo brothers after they were called in as suspicious persons near the emergency room at Martin Memorial Hospital (South) late Tuesday night.
According to the Martin County Sheriff’s Office Christopher stated to Detective Ferreira that both he and Nicholas had committed the burglaries and revealed the location of both advanced life support boxes.
In a news release Stuart police say they injected the drugs, and discarded the boxes in a dumpster behind Milams Market.
According to police the drugs they injected were listed as Dilaudid, Morphine, Verced, and Ativan.
Bond for both suspects was set at $60,000.
Republishsed with permission from WPTV