MANSFIELD, La. - A wild ambulance theft was caught on camera in Wednesday night in DeSoto Parish.

Mansfield police identify the man allegedly responsible as Marquis Simpson. He's not been arrested nor is he in jail. Instead, Mansfield Mayor Thomas Jones said Simpson is in a facility to get help for mental health issues.

Regardless, arrest warrants are waiting on Simpson once he leaves the unknown facility. He's being charged with two felony offenses and multiple traffic offenses related to the ambulance theft.

The short joy ride in the stolen ambulance started around 8 p.m. from outside of DeSoto Regional Medical Center in Mansfield.

A DeSoto EMS crew delivered a patient to the emergency room, and when they came outside the ambulance was gone. At first they thought they'd been pranked,

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