Ohio woman who missed bus charged with stealing ambulance

The ambulance was tracked via Global Positioning System down I-75 until Springfield Township police stopped Carr on Meredith Drive.

AUGUST 19-After being discharged from an OH hospital and missing the last bus home, a woman stole an ambulance and drove it to her residence, according to police who nabbed the suspect last night following a brief, low-speed chase. Fortunately, they were tracking it on Global Positioning System, and a Springfield Township officer noticed it was nearby.

Police said Carr was recently discharged from Deaconess.

The ambulance’s actual driver got the attention of passing Cincinnati police to say his vehicle was stolen while he was inside the hospital, authorities said.

“Mrs. Lisa Carr stated that she took the vehicle because she missed the last bus”, police wrote in a sworn affidavit filed in Hamilton County Municipal Court.

Carr then drove nine miles home, where she was taken into custody after police used Global Positioning System to track her down. The driver apparently had left the ambulance to go inside the hospital with a patient.

Carr was charged with auto theft by the Cincinnati Police Department, and driving under suspended license by the Springfield Township Police Department.