Police arrest man allegedly stealing from ambulance

A Bloomington man was arrested Tuesday afternoon after police say he was stealing items from an ambulance.\nJeffrey S. Nielsen, 43, faces two preliminary counts of theft and trespassing. \nThe Bloomington Police Department was dispatched to the ambulance center at Bloomington Hospital in response to a report of an emergency medical technician detaining Nielsen, BPD Sgt. Jeff Canada said, reading from a police report. The EMT told BPD Sgt. Mick Williams that he discovered Nielsen rummaging through medical bags, Canada said.\nNielsen told Williams that he was looking for blankets in the ambulance, Canada said. \nA bottle of nitroglycerine tablets was missing, according to the report.\nWhen hospital security officers arrived, they told Williams that Nielsen had also gone to Bloomington Convalescent Center for a smoking cessation class he had not enrolled in earlier that day, Canada said. \nSecurity officers told Williams that Nielsen stole nicotine patches, nicotine lozenges and two cans of V8 juice while at the class, Canada said.\nNielsen was arrested and transported to the Monroe County Jail.