EMT Buys Buffalo Wings, Bubbly With Patient's Stolen Card: Queens DA

NEW YORK CITY — He needed buffalo wings and bubbly, stat! A New York City medic faces criminal charges for going on a boozy, spicy shopping spree with a patient's stolen debit card, Queens prosecutors announced Friday.

Emergency responder Robert Marshall, 29, of College Point, stands accused of stealing a 79-year-old woman's debit card from her purse after an ambulance call in Brookville on Aug. 8, according to Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz.

"The defendant in this case used his position as an EMT to steal the victim’s property at a particularly vulnerable time," Katz said in a statement. "She was being transported to a local hospital."

Marshall seized the opportunity to take the card as he the woman from her home on Edgewood Avenue and 230th Avenue and into an ambulance about 9 a.m., prosecutors said.

Days later, the woman checked her purse and found that a red debit card was missing, prosecutors said.

Investigators soon found surveillance footage of Marshall walking into a Queens liquor store the day of the ambulance call about 6:50 p.m., authorities said.

Marshall used the card to buy two bottles of Moet champagne and Buffalo Wild Wings, prosecutors said.

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The EMT also made charges at a brick oven pizzeria, a Key Food grocery store and a laundromat, before he ditched the card, authorities said.

He was arraigned this week in a Queens court and is due back for a Oct. 18 hearing.