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New Orleans hospital patient booked in ambulance theft

The Associated Press
via KLFY.com

NEW ORLEANS — State Police arrested a hospital patient who stole a city-owned ambulance at Touro Infirmary in New Orleans and drove the vehicle into Jefferson Parish.

Troopers say paramedics from New Orleans Emergency Medical Service had just unloaded a critically ill cardiac patient at Touro’s emergency room yesterday when 29-year-old John Malane of New Orleans jumped inside the vehicle.

Malane drove the ambulance from the hospital onto Interstate 10 and into Metairie. With lights on and sirens blaring, Malane got behind a state trooper’s vehicle on the highway.

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