Five days after a man dressed in a hospital gown with an IV in his arm allegedly stole an ambulance from the Virginia hospital where he was being treated, the 32-year-old suspect was arrested.
Rickey Lowe was arrested Friday and served with a warrant for grand theft after detectives found him near a hotel in Manassas, Virginia, where he lives, the Fairfax County Police Department said in a Saturday news release.
Lowe had been a passenger in a Toyota Corolla on Monday that was reported stolen from a home in Manassas and was allegedly driven by 29-year-old Xxeavius Romoance Marlow.
After Marlow crashed the car, he, Lowe and three other passengers were taken to Fairfax Hospital, where Lowe then stole the ambulance, police said.
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Rickey Lowe was arrested Friday, days after he allegedly stole an ambulance after running from a hospital emergency room. (Fairfax County Police Department)
“Although he had not yet been discharged, he abandoned treatment with an IV in his arm, boarded a private transport ambulance and stole it,” police said earlier this week.
Lowe has been released from the hospital and charged with grand larceny. He is being held without bail.
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Xxeavius Romoance Marlow has been charged with grand larceny. (Fairfax County Police Department)
After escaping from the emergency room, the ambulance Lowe was allegedly driving was found abandoned in Annandale, Virginia.
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Lowe is being held on $2,000 bail.
