A routine ambulance run took a flip for the chaotic on Friday when a passenger aggressively took the wheel.

Nicholas Albano, 31, was being transported to a close-by hospital in a non-public ambulance within the early morning hours of Friday, based on NBC Washington. At round 2:40 a.m., Albano, of Hyattsville, Maryland, started to assault employees members within the car.

Through the altercation, Albano reportedly put one ambulance employee in a headlock and commenced punching them repeatedly. The driving force at one level tried to assist subdue the passenger, however his efforts have been in useless and Albano finally took the driving force's seat.

The employees exited the emergency car in Rockville, Maryland, and Albano drove off, based on the Montgomery County Police Division.

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Maryland man Nicholas Albano faces fees after attacking ambulance employees and taking the car on an prolonged police chase. Above, a representational picture of an ambulance in Huntington, Utah.Justin Sullivan/Getty Pictures

Officers from the division quickly started pursuing the rogue ambulance, leading to an prolonged chase that crossed state strains. Albano initially fled down Interstate 270, finally getting onto the Beltway that surrounds Washington, D.C., and later crossing the American Legion Bridge into Virginia.

Authorities have been lastly in a position to deliver the ambulance to a halt on Route 110 in Arlington, not removed from the Pentagon and roughly 20 miles from the place Albano initially took off from. The person surrendered to the Virginia State Police and was booked on the Arlington County Detention Heart.

As of Saturday, he remained in custody there awaiting extradition again to Montgomery County. He now faces fees of carjacking, first-degree assault, second-degree assault, and reckless endangerment, in addition to a number of further fees in Virginia.

Newsweek reached out to the Montgomery County Police Division for a touch upon this story.

An analogous occasion of ambulance theft additionally performed out in Maryland earlier final month. On January 7, the Carroll County Sheriff's Workplace reported that a Baltimore County Hearth Division ambulance had been stolen from Carroll Hospital Heart. Police positioned the stolen car on Route 32 and pursued it for a short while. The chase finally ended after the ambulance collided with autos from the Maryland State Police and the sheriff's workplace, the latter of which was pushed into one other parked automobile.

One other occasion of ambulance joyriding got here to a splashier finish in New York final summer season. In a press release from June 2021, state police confirmed that a stolen ambulance had led authorities on a two-hour chase beginning close to Utica. The pursuit got here to an abrupt finish when the driving force crashed the car into Irondequoit Bay, a physique of water simply off of Lake Ontario close to Rochester. The driving force tried to swim to a non-public watercraft docked within the bay, however was arrested quickly after.