Paramedics left their ambulance running as they investigated a call to Casa Linda-area apartments last night.

When they returned to the spot where they left the vehicle (they reportedly never located the person who called 911 in the first place) it was gone.

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It didn’t take long for police to track the stolen ambulance and arrest one Alvin Clayton, 25.

Clayton, who apparently left a backpack and a pair of crutches aboard the ambulance, is in Dallas County Jail on charges of unauthorized use of a motor vehicle.