{"id":14087,"date":"2019-08-05T00:41:58","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T00:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci02819f3810002458"},"modified":"2025-02-28T20:12:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T20:12:42","slug":"man-allegedly-steals-ambulance-vehicle-and-leads-cops-on-high-speed-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/2019\/08\/05\/man-allegedly-steals-ambulance-vehicle-and-leads-cops-on-high-speed-chase\/","title":{"rendered":"MAN ALLEGEDLY STEALS AMBULANCE VEHICLE AND LEADS COPS ON HIGH SPEED CHASE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A man has been arrested and charged after he allegedly stole an ambulance from a Gaston County Medical Center on August 2 and then led police on a high-speed chase in North Carolina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The incident started around 8:30 p.m. after 29-year-old Joshua Kyle Poindexter stole a Dallas Rescue Squad Ambulance from the CaroMont Regional Medical Center&#8217;s ambulance bay. The ambulance crew was in the emergency room dealing with a patient when the theft happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GPS software allowed police to track the stolen ambulance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poindexter led police on a chase that exceeded the speed limit by 15 mph before he was arrested 20 miles away in Cherryville, NC. The chase eventually ended and Poindexter was arrested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No other people were inside the ambulance at the time of the chase and no injuries were reported.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poindexter&nbsp;is charged with larceny of a motor vehicle, fleeing to elude arrest, failing to heed a siren and reckless driving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man is accused of stealing a ambulance and leading authorities on a chase in North Carolina <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19159,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14087\/revisions\/19159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}