Around 7 p.m., Fort Worth police received a 911 call from a mortuary transport employee stating he left the transport van running near the ambulance bay while he went inside the hospital. When he came back out, the van was gone.
Fort Worth Police arrested a woman they say stole a van and with a corpse inside of it on Tuesday.35-year-old Valerie Traglor-Ellis is facing charges of auto theft and abuse of a corpse.Late Tuesday night, police found a stolen mortuary transport van with a corpse inside parked on the perimeter of the Fort Worth Zoo. A driver passing by alerted police that a van was abandoned off Park Place Avenue in a wooded backstreet.
"We had witnesses in the area that noticed the woman walking by the car and seemed suspicious," said Fort Worth Police Officer Tracy Carter. "She noticed the window was down. She jumped in it and took it for a ride."Police say Traglor-Ellis didn’t take the van far, ditching it two miles away outside the zoo. Officers canvassed the area and found her on foot nearby. "They found a woman that fit the description of the witness from JPS," Carter said.
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