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Man steals ambulance from RI hospital
Healthcare Security Weekly, October 24, 2005
Police in Newport, RI, are using hospital security tapes to determine how someone stole an ambulance from Newport Hospital, reports the Providence Journal.
Authorities arrested Paul Laparle on charges of possession of stolen property after they found the ambulance parked on his lawn, but they are still trying to figure out the sequence of events that led to the theft.
Two emergency workers left the ambulance running outside of the hospital's emergency room as they brought a patient into the facility. When they came out minutes later, the ambulance was gone.
It is standard procedure in an emergency to leave the ambulance running, but police are trying to determine why Laparle stole the ambulance and whether drugs or alcohol played a part in the theft of the $100,000 vehicle.
The emergency workers say they may have seen Laparle exit the hospital as they were bringing the patient in.
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