Police: Man led police on 3-county pursuit of stolen Miami-Dade fire truck
MIAMI - A man accused of stealing a fire rescue truck and leading police on a three-county pursuit is facing serious charges.
Authorities said 31-year-old Aljenard Lekambrick stole a Miami-Dade Fire Rescue truck in Miami-Dade and drove it all the way up to Palm Beach County on Thursday night.
The truck, Engine 32, was taken from NE 168th Street in North Miami Beach.
"According to investigators, MDFR personnel were conducting a training exercise in the area of NE 166th Street and NE 7th Avenue, when a subject entered one of the fire trucks and proceeded to steal it," according to a statement from Miami-Dade Police. "As the subject fled, he crashed into an unoccupied marked Opa-locka Police Department cruiser, which was parked in the area of 18th Avenue and NW 143rd Terrace."
Miami-Dade police spotted the truck getting on northbound I-95 and pursued it.
When it reached Broward, Miami-Dade officers disengaged and Broward Sherriff's deputies took over.
The truck was stopped in Palm Beach County on the Turnpike at Boynton Beach Boulevard in Boca Raton.
Lekambrick was taken into custody.
There were no injuries during the pursuit.
He is facing a charge of grand theft of emergency medical equipment.
