Man charged after allegedly trying to steal ambulance in Saskatoon

An aborted theft of an ambulance has led to charges against a 45-year-old man in Saskatoon.

According to police, the alleged incident happened Tuesday just before 9:30 p.m. in the 1100 block of 22nd Street West, where officers responded to a call about a suspicious person who had tried to steal an ambulance.

“Paramedics with Medavie Health Services West reported that they had been attending to the patient of an unrelated incident alongside the ambulance when an uninvolved man got in and began to drive away, running over a paramedic’s foot,” the police said in a media release.

“The man was quickly stopped by bystanders and removed from the ambulance before being arrested by police a short distance away.”

The man was charged with theft of a motor vehicle and dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing bodily harm.