Alabama
Jailed Alabama man overpowers deputy, flees in stolen ambulance, officials say
Authorities in Alabama have been looking Thursday for a jail escapee who overpowered a sheriff’s deputy and stole an ambulance at a hospital Wednesday, officers mentioned.
Phillip Shane Bradford, 45, escaped Wednesday afternoon after he was taken to a Birmingham hospital for remedy, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned.
Bradford “managed to overpower the deputy and flee the scene in an unoccupied ambulance,” the workplace mentioned in an announcement.
On-line jail information present Bradford was being held as a pretrial inmate. He’s charged with first-degree theft, probation violations, possession of drug paraphernalia and different counts, in response to the sheriff’s workplace.
Birmingham police discovered the ambulance deserted later Wednesday.
Bradford was noticed Thursday morning in Cullman, round 40 miles north of Birmingham, stealing a 2004 silver GMC Envoy from a Walmart parking zone, police in that metropolis instructed NBC affiliate WVTM of Birmingham.