NORWOOD, Ohio — A man stole a City of Norwood work truck and drove it around for "a few hours" before police were able to stop him, according to Norwood police.
Police said public works officials were doing work in the 4000 block of Montgomery Road at around 8:50 a.m. when Mark Bramble jumped into one of the worker's trucks and stole it.
From there, the truck was picked up through several license plate reader hits and sightings for "a few hours," police said.
“We could kind of track it a little bit — where it was going, where we could maybe kind of guess where it was going to," said Lt. Matthew Klingelhoffer, Norwood Police Department's public information officer.
While he drove around, Bramble left the truck's flashing, orange lights turned on, something police said made it easier to spot him.
“Individual officers with the Cincinnati Police Department saw the vehicle driving around the downtown area, the Over-the-Rhine area particularly and it was a gigantic white F250 ... and it had the yellow lights on top going so it kind of stuck out like a sore thumb," Klingelhoffer said.
Cincinnati police were eventually able to stop Bramble when he hit stop sticks on Main Street, police said.
Bramble is listed as facing theft, obstructing official business, failure to comply with an order from a police officer and resisting arrest charges. He's being held on a $155,000 bond.
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