On Sunday morning, November 2, 2014, paramedics in a Poudre Valley Hospital ambulance responded to an emergency involving an intoxicated student at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. When the paramedics rolled the student out of the building they found that someone had stolen their ambulance. (The patient had to be transported to another hospital in a backup vehicle.)
Through GPS technology the police located the missing ambulance 12 miles away in Loveland, Colorado. Officers found the vehicle, its doors wide open and its front-end badly damaged and leaking fluid, sitting in the middle of Highway 34. The officers also encountered the thief, 18-year-old Stefan Sortland standing thirty yards from the wrecked ambulance. The Colorado State University sophomore, decked out in an EMT safety vest, was holding a blanket, a cellphone and a box of Wheat Thins.
According to witnesses the ambulance hit the raised median, jumped the curb, struck a highway sign, careened the wrong way and crossed back over the median before coming to a stop.
When the college boy refused to obey the police-issued commands they stunned him with a Taser. Referring to the police vehicles surrounding him Stefan Sortland asked, "Why are those lights flashing on those cars?" On his way to the Loveland Police Department Sortland informed the officers that he and the stolen ambulance had been en route to Vail, Colorado. For the most part, however, the college student rambled on incoherently.
At the police station Mr. Sortland said he took the drug molly along with some cocaine at a Halloween concert where security officers kicked him out of the event. He also said that his friends and roommates, having all committed suicide, were dead and in heaven.
While awaiting his transportation to the local jail the drugged-up college kid kicked a police department bench and a wall then started masturbating. (Apparently he wasn't handcuffed behind his back.)
At the Larimer County Jail, while in the booking area, Sortland attacked two jail employees who brought him lunch. He punched one of the deputies in the face. A short time later officers booked Sortland on charges of aggravated vehicle theft, obstructing emergency medical personnel, reckless driving, hit-and-run, criminal mischief, unlawful possession of a controlled substance and assault.
Stefan Sortland's father told detectives that his son had no history of mental illness and was not on medication. His father did say that on Halloween his son had sent him some odd text messages.
On May 17, 2016 Stefan Sortland pleaded guilty to the felony counts of motor vehicle theft and second-degree assault of a police officer. Chief Judge Stephen Schapanski gave him a four-year deferred sentence. That meant that if he remained law abiding during that period he would not be sent to prison. According to his defense attorney the 20-year-old was now taking anti-psychotic medication.
Through GPS technology the police located the missing ambulance 12 miles away in Loveland, Colorado. Officers found the vehicle, its doors wide open and its front-end badly damaged and leaking fluid, sitting in the middle of Highway 34. The officers also encountered the thief, 18-year-old Stefan Sortland standing thirty yards from the wrecked ambulance. The Colorado State University sophomore, decked out in an EMT safety vest, was holding a blanket, a cellphone and a box of Wheat Thins.
According to witnesses the ambulance hit the raised median, jumped the curb, struck a highway sign, careened the wrong way and crossed back over the median before coming to a stop.
When the college boy refused to obey the police-issued commands they stunned him with a Taser. Referring to the police vehicles surrounding him Stefan Sortland asked, "Why are those lights flashing on those cars?" On his way to the Loveland Police Department Sortland informed the officers that he and the stolen ambulance had been en route to Vail, Colorado. For the most part, however, the college student rambled on incoherently.
At the police station Mr. Sortland said he took the drug molly along with some cocaine at a Halloween concert where security officers kicked him out of the event. He also said that his friends and roommates, having all committed suicide, were dead and in heaven.
While awaiting his transportation to the local jail the drugged-up college kid kicked a police department bench and a wall then started masturbating. (Apparently he wasn't handcuffed behind his back.)
At the Larimer County Jail, while in the booking area, Sortland attacked two jail employees who brought him lunch. He punched one of the deputies in the face. A short time later officers booked Sortland on charges of aggravated vehicle theft, obstructing emergency medical personnel, reckless driving, hit-and-run, criminal mischief, unlawful possession of a controlled substance and assault.
Stefan Sortland's father told detectives that his son had no history of mental illness and was not on medication. His father did say that on Halloween his son had sent him some odd text messages.
On May 17, 2016 Stefan Sortland pleaded guilty to the felony counts of motor vehicle theft and second-degree assault of a police officer. Chief Judge Stephen Schapanski gave him a four-year deferred sentence. That meant that if he remained law abiding during that period he would not be sent to prison. According to his defense attorney the 20-year-old was now taking anti-psychotic medication.
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