2 Ambulance Patients Taken for 8-Hour Ride

An ambulance driver picked up two cerebral palsy patients at their homes and kept the women in the vehicle for nearly eight hours while driving around the city and smoking crack cocaine, police said.

Marvin Beeler, 32, also robbed the women of $80, a cellular telephone and jewelry, before abandoning them and the ambulance in Brooklyn, police said.

The woman, who were to have been taken to a Queens hospital, were unharmed, police said.

Beeler, 32, was charged with unlawful imprisonment, robbery, grand larceny, reckless endangerment and criminal possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia.