By Daniel Borunda
El Paso Times
EL PASO, Texas — A man was arrested late Monday night in the far East Side after being accused of stealing an ambulance and leading more than a half-dozen police cars on a chase for more than 90 minutes across El Paso, police said.
Michial Bruce Sampson, 36, allegedly stole an El Paso Fire Department ambulance outside the emergency room at Providence Memorial Hospital, sparking a multi-agency pursuit that went to the Northeast, crossed the state line into New Mexico and then went to the far East Side, police said.
At 9:30 p.m., Sampson was being admitted into the hospital by Fire Department paramedics when he walked out and drove off in the ambulance from the hospital at 2001 N. Oregon St. near the University of Texas at El Paso, police said.
Patrol officers, who were at the hospital for an unrelated reason, chased after the stolen ambulance.
The chase went from the West Side to the Northeast into New Mexico and then returned on Loop 375 into far East El Paso until the ambulance went into the desert, police said.
The chase eventually came to an end at 11:06 p.m. when Sampson was arrested near Pellicano Drive and Bob Hope Drive.
Sampson was booked on charges of unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and evading arrest and was jailed on a $15,000 bond, police said. An El Paso County Jail log lists Sampson as being from Spring, Texas.
El Paso police, El Paso County sheriff’s deputies and Texas Department of Public Safety troopers pursued the ambulance.
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