Man Arrested After Deliberately Causing Ambulance to Crash…
Car Crash Ruskin Florida in Ruskin, Florida: On June 25, 2026, at 10:50 p.m., Hillsborough County Fire Rescue responded to a medical call at a home in Ruskin, Florida. While paramedics were treating a female patient, Johnny Arman, 35, became hostile and repeatedly tried to force his way into the ambulance. After the ambulance left with the patient, Arman followed it in his vehicle and, while traveling on Upper Creek Drive near Galen Court, blocked its path and accelerated directly into it, forcing the ambulance off the roadway and into utility boxes and a utility pole. At the time of the crash, two Hillsborough County Fire Rescue paramedics and the patient were inside the ambulance; the collision caused more than $100,000 in damage to utility infrastructure. Arman was arrested and charged with multiple offenses including aggravated battery on a firefighter with a deadly weapon, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, unlawfully impeding/threatening/harassing a first responder, criminal mischief, and burglary of an authorized emergency vehicle.