Las Vegas, NV - Deputy City Marshall Helps Injured Man - Suspect Steals His Patrol Car With AR 15 - Arrested At Gun Point
'Hero' in trouble after returning car:
Marshal left patrol vehicle to assist injured man
Oct 25, 2009 (Las Vegas Review-Journal - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services
The deputy city marshal had stopped to assist a security officer and an
injured man when a patrol vehicle pulled up.
"I'm here. Do you need back up," the driver said.
Instead, the driver was arrested at gunpoint. After all, he had allegedly
made off with the marshal's car minutes earlier.
"I always wanted to be a hero," the suspect, Kenneth Ambrose-Callan, was quoted
as saying in a police report on the Oct. 15 incident.
The bizarre series of events occurred shortly after midnight at Fourth and
Fremont streets when, according to a police report, the marshal, identified only
as S. Wheeler, stopped to assist the security officer and injured man.
Soon, he noticed his vehicle had disappeared.
"I ran down to the alley north of Fremont Street to see if somebody had moved
my vehicle, but it was not there," Wheeler wrote in the report. "I attempted to
contact my supervisor by phone, but my phone was still inside the patrol vehicle
along with an AR 15 patrol rifle that was secured in the vehicle."According to
the report, Wheeler looked south on Fourth Street and saw a patrol vehicle
approaching him "with emergency lights still activated."The vehicle stopped in
front of him, and Wheeler saw a man in the driver's seat.
"When the subject pulled up in my patrol vehicle, he looked at me and stated,
'I'm here. Do you need back-up?'" Wheeler wrote in his report.
Wheeler was not amused.
"I drew my department issued duty weapon from my holster and placed the male
subject at gun point because next to him was my department issued patrol rifle,"
Wheeler wrote.
The deputy marshal handcuffed Ambrose-Callan and advised him he was under
arrest.
He read the suspect his rights and asked him why he had stolen the vehicle.
That, according to the report, prompted the "hero" comment.
Wheeler then asked Ambrose-Callan "if he was on any medication or if he had been
diagnosed with a mental disorder," and the suspect replied, "No."A records check
revealed that Ambrose-Callan's only priors were for traffic violations.
Now the 39-year-old man, who had identification from Arizona, faces felony
charges of burglary while in possession of a firearm and grand larceny auto.
He is being held at the Clark County Detention Center.