CHEROKEE Co., S.C. (WSPA) — A Gaffney woman is accused of stealing an ambulance before she was apprehended by deputies on Interstate 85.
Cherokee County sheriff’s deputies responded to a report of an ambulance theft around 8:05 a.m. Friday at Mary Black Gaffney hospital.
Deputies say the suspect, identified as 30-year-old Chelsea Wylie, walked up to the ambulance headquarters and asked a man seated in an ambulance for a ride. The driver told her he couldn’t give her with a ride but offered to see if someone could help her.
Deputies say the driver went inside the headquarter to ask for help and that’s when Wylie jumped into the running ambulance and sped off – hitting part of a deck and damaging the ambulance owned by Ambustar.
Staff was able to track the ambulance location by GPS. They provided Wylie’s location to authorities before Wylie allegedly tossed the GPS device out of the window.
Deputies caught up to her on Interstate 85 near the North Carolina state line, but Wylie didn’t stop. Deputies say she continued driving into North Carolina where she took Exit 2 and then got on I-85 South and led deputies back into South Carolina where she finally stopped at the off ramp to Exit 106 and was arrested.
Wylie has been charged with grand larceny and two counts each of malicious damage to property.
She’s in the Cherokee County Detention Center awaiting a bond hearing.