Crime & Safety
(ICYMI) Man on Rollerblades Tries to Steal Ambulance: Police
In case you missed it: Gwinnett Police said the man claimed he was part of the "re-con unit" of the fire department.
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A Georgia man is being held without bond in the Gwinnett County jail, accused of attempting to steal an ambulance while first responders were working a serious car accident.
Police say Brandon Demarcus Moore was wearing rollerblades when the incident happened last Sunday in the Norcross area.
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Moore, of Norcross, has been charged with theft by taking, interference with government property, obstruction of an E.M.T., obstruction of an officer and violation of probation, according to jail records.
According to the police incident report, officers were working the crash near Singleton and Williams roads in unincorporated Norcross around 8 p.m. Oct. 11. Five people were injured in the wreck, which involved a flipped-over SUV and a person trapped inside.
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An officer working the scene noticed one of the ambulances slowly moving backward downhill away from the accident. The officer reported seeing Moore slowly driving the rig in reverse. “I then ran back to my patrol vehicle and pursued the ambulance (which was still rolling at a low rate of speed),” the officer wrote in the report.
He and two other officers then used their patrol cars to force the ambulance off the road. According to the incident report, Moore crashed the ambulance into the brick sign at the Singleton Activity Building.
Officers had to break the driver’s side window of the ambulance to get to Moore, who had refused to come out. When he was removed, Moore was wearing rollerblades, with which he allegedly kicked the officers as he was being apprehended.
“I placed myself prone across the subject’s legs as he was being handcuffed behind the back and removed the subject’s rollerbades,” the reporting officer wrote.
Later, Moore told police he resisted coming out of the ambulance, “because he was part of the ‘re-con unit’ of the fire department.”
More was booked into the county jail around 9 p.m. on Oct. 11, according to jail records.
Photo: Brandon Demarcus Moore; Gwinnett County Jail mug shot
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