The chase ended after the driver got stuck in stolen ambulance and tried to escape on foot. The driver was apprehended and no injuries reported after the two hour dramatic episode.
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The driver was identified Tuesday by police as 19-year-old Felix Lopez. He faces a second-degree felony charge of theft of property.
Dallas police said the ambulance was taken from Fire Station No. 53 Monday morning and was spotted early in the afternoon in southeast Dallas County.
The man behind the wheel of the ambulance refused to stop and led police on a chase for nearly two hours that went through Dallas County into Kaufman County before he drove north into Collin County and through the cities of Plano, McKinney and Princeton.
At times the driver intentionally drove into oncoming traffic, but no crashes have been reported in connection with the chase.
It was back in McKinney where the driver tried to again lose the police, sheriff’s deputies, and state troopers in a residential neighborhood, often going off-road and across lawns trying to escape.
The ambulance apparently bottomed out a curb and the driver quickly bailed out and tried to outrun police on foot while also trying to hold up his falling pants.
Moments later the man was cornered in a fenced-in area and was taken into custody by several officers near Joyce Way and Tension Lane.
Officers with the Dallas Police Department, Dallas County Sheriff’s Office and Texas State Troopers, and a number of other agencies, assisted in bringing the chase to a close. Read more from Nbcdwf
