A woman in Arizona has been charged with stealing and crashing an ambulance that was parked outside an Avenged Sevenfold and Good Charlotte gig.

The incident took place outside Talking Sticks Amphitheatre and Resort in Phoenix on Thursday night (August 27), around 11pm. Local police were called to the scene when a 24-year-old named Grace Vicente reportedly got into an ambulance that was parked outside the venue and drove it a short distance before crashing into another vehicle.

Vicente was detained by police after the collision, and later charged with DUI and theft of a vehicle.

The ambulance was parked outside the venue after being called out for the event, and the keys were reportedly left inside the vehicle when paramedics got out.

The driver of the car that the ambulance crashed into was taken to hospital following the incident, and had no life-threatening injuries.

Speaking to local outlet AZFamily, Vicente’s lawyer claimed that she had travelled to Arizona for the gig and described the incident involving the ambulance as “completely out of her normal nature”.

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The show in Arizona came as part of Avenged Sevenfold and Good Charlotte’s co-headline tour, which kicked off in Missouri on July 25 and wrapped up in Los Angeles on Sunday (August 30).

For Avenged, the US metal icons recently surprise-released the futuristic electronic-tinged new EP, ‘Statica’ – their first new music since their ‘Life Is But a Dream
’ album arrived in 2023. While they have finished their co-headline tour with Good Charlotte, the band will hitting the road again later this month, with shows lined-up in Brazil, Malaysia and Japan. Later this year, they will also perform in Australia, Singapore, Thailand and more.

For Good Charlotte, the tour comes following the band dropping their eighth studio album ‘Motel Du Cap’ last year. Since then, Joel and Benji Madden have also made a surprise appearance on stage with Hilary Duff at Madison Square Garden, just hours after their company carried out mass layoffs at US music journalism titles including Pitchfork and Brooklyn Vegan.

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