By Ildefonso Ortiz, The Monitor, McAllen, Texas
April 4--EDINBURG -- The Hidalgo County Sheriff's Office arrested a man accused of assaulting his girlfriend and then ramming an ambulance as it transported her to the hospital.
At 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, sheriff's deputies were called to the area of Farm-to-Market Road 490 and FM 493 in the Hargill area, where a woman apparently had been assaulted by her boyfriend, said Cmdr. John Montemayor of the Sheriff's Office.
As she was being transported to a local hospital, the man caught up to the ambulance and rammed it several times with a gray sedan. He then fled before deputies arrived.
After she arrived at the hospital for treatment, deputies were able to arrest the man, who was in the parking lot of Edinburg Regional Medical Center.
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Ildefonso Ortiz covers courts and law enforcement for The Monitor. He can be reached at iortiz@themonitor.com and (956) 683-4437 or on Twitter, @IldefonsoOrtiz.
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