After St. Paul officers responded to a call downtown, a man rode off on a police Segway and a woman stole a police PepperBall gun, according to charges filed Thursday.

The two officers removed their keys from the Segways, which are used for patrolling in the Skyway, when they went to a building at Jackson and Fifth streets on Tuesday about 9:45 a.m.

When they returned, one of the Segways was moved from its original parked position and a witness reported a man had been riding it in the Skyway.

Surveillance video showed a man, later identified as Tyrese Desean Johnson, 30, riding the Segway over a Skyway ramp, according to a criminal complaint.

A Segway is operable for a short distance without a key in it, according to Steve Linders, St. Paul police spokesman. When the Segway stopped working, Johnson crashed and failed to get it going again.

Officers also saw items from the Segway’s gear pouch were on the floor. One officer checked inside the storage pouch and saw a PepperBall gun was missing.

The police department began a PepperBall pilot program last month. An officer can use a launcher, which looks like a handgun with orange along the top, to shoot a powder with a similar effect as pepper spray.

The surveillance video showed a woman with Johnson took the PepperBall launcher, which was loaded, on Tuesday morning, according to a police report.

“We are reminding officers they need to keep the tools they use secure at all times, and we are looking into getting locked cases for the PepperBall equipment,” Linders said Thursday.

About an hour after the Tuesday theft, police found Johnson and Chelise Desiree Brown, 23, at Union Depot in downtown St. Paul.

Johnson had the PepperBall gun and officers got it back, police said. Officers discovered he had a warrant for felony burglary tools.

Johnson reported he had ingested narcotics and was taken to the hospital, the complaint said.

Police arrested Brown, whom the St. Paul city attorney’s office charged Thursday with gross misdemeanor theft. The Ramsey County attorney’s office charged Johnson with felony theft because of the Segway’s value.