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Police: Man steals ambulance battery to steal truck, generators

Police said the suspect wanted to steal two generators from a city building, and realized his stolen truck had a dead battery

By EMS1 Staff

HORRY COUNTY, S.C. — Police are searching for a suspect who allegedly stole a battery from an ambulance to power a stolen truck he wanted to use to steal generators.

WMBF reported that the suspect wanted to take two generators from a city building and stole a truck so he would have somewhere to put them, according to a post on the Horry County Police Department’s Facebook page.

The truck he stole had a dead battery, so the suspect took a battery from an AMS Medical Transport ambulance.

The incident is currently under investigation.

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