Ambulance stolen from Duke Hospital ER

DURHAM, North Carolina (WTVD) -- Authorities in Durham have arrested a man after a Granville County ambulance was stolen from the emergency room entrance at Duke Hospital early Friday morning.

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Durham police were called about the incident just after 4:30 a.m.

Officers arrested Ricky Lewis Reams, 57, of Durham and charged him with felony larceny of a motor vehicle and misdemeanor operating a motor vehicle while fleeing/attempting to elude law enforcement after the vehicle was spotted along Winston Road and Frasier Street and then stopped along West Avenue, near Hebron Road.

Reams was also arrested on seven failure to appear charges from earlier warrants.