A health worker from Valladolid was arrested for a persistent crime of theft in hospitals and during ambulance transfers. The defendants, who had a history of similar thefts, took advantage of the vulnerable situation of patients during their admissions to the emergency room or their trips to the mobile ICU. The investigation began after four similar complaints of theft of wallets or personal items between October and December in these hospital environments, both from patients and their companions. The individual has already been released.
The National Police reported the crimes committed by the health worker in a press release in which it compiled several of the acts attributed to him. “A woman reported that on October 31, while she was waiting to be treated in the emergency department of the University Clinical Hospital, a guard took her handbag pretending that he was going to put it elsewhere. A few minutes later, upon retrieving it, she discovered that her wallet, which contained 60 euros, health cards and a Christmas lottery ticket, was missing,” describes the press release, emphasizing that the arrested person used these moments of confusion or nervousness to commit the crimes. crimes.
A few weeks later, a man reported to agents “the disappearance of his wife’s wallet, at the Río Hortega University Hospital, which contained 300 euros, three bank cards and a tenth of the Christmas lottery.” This complainant stressed that the facts had occurred “after being assisted by an ambulance technician who handled the bag while he was helping them in a room of the center”, which allowed the investigations to progress.
On November 20, the son of a patient reported that during the transfer by ambulance to the hospital in Valladolid, his father had lost a wallet containing 200 euros and five tenths of lottery money. This person arrived alone at the hospital and when the complainant entered the place where he was, he could see that these objects were no longer there. On the same day, the family also reported that a patient transported by ambulance lost his wallet, with money, cards and the Real Valladolid membership card.
These coincidences pointed the finger at the suspicious doctor, who had participated in all these medical actions, and he was finally arrested on December 18, then released. Officers verified that the individual had been investigated for similar events in 2023, for stealing 500 euros from a woman’s handbag during an ambulance transfer; in 2019, for the “theft of a wallet of 900 euros from a patient being treated after a medical episode”; and in 2016 for two cases: “Theft of 300 euros from a man being treated after a fall on a city bus” and “theft of 1,500 euros from a patient during his transfer by ambulance to the Clinical Hospital”.
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