{"id":368151,"date":"2025-11-10T01:54:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T01:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/368151\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T01:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T01:54:11","slug":"chicago-man-charged-with-stealing-ambulance-from-hospital-leading-police-on-chase-through-west-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/368151\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago man charged with stealing ambulance from hospital, leading police on chase through West Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago police announced on Sunday that a man was charged with allegedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/news\/chicago-police-chase-stolen-ambulance-loretto-hospital-cicero\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">stealing an ambulance and leading police on a chase on the city&#8217;s West Side<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<p>Lamont Hill, 59, of Chicago, was charged with multiple felonies including aggravated battery to a peace officer, criminal damage to government property between $500-$10,000, vehicular hijacking, possessing a stolen vehicle, kidnapping with force or threat of force, attempted disarming of a peace officer, leaving the scene of an accident, aggravated reckless driving, aggravated fleeing causing bodily injury, aggravated fleeing causing $300 of property damage, and evading police.<\/p>\n<p>Hill was arrested shortly after 4 p.m. on Friday in the 4800 block of West Chicago Avenue. <\/p>\n<p>Police said he was identified as the suspect who, moments earlier, allegedly stole an ambulance from Loretto Hospital. While in the ambulance, he was involved in a traffic accident, hitting two Chicago police vehicles. <\/p>\n<p>During this incident, an officer discharged their firearm in the direction of the suspect. No one was hit by gunfire. <\/p>\n<p>It was further alleged that Hill continued to flee, hitting multiple vehicles on the roadway and a marked CPD squad vehicle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was quickly placed into custody and subsequently charged accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>Hill is scheduled to appear at a detention hearing on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The video above is from a previous report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago police announced on Sunday that a man was charged with allegedly stealing an ambulance and leading police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":368152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[177769,174982,960,5386,1818,8437],"class_list":{"0":"post-368151","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-ambulance-crash","9":"tag-auto-theft","10":"tag-chicago","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-illinois","13":"tag-west-side"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115522913406670152","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}