This is the moment US cops chase a teen with a stolen gun after he forced a friend to flee from a traffic stop.

The suspect, who has an extensive juvenile criminal record and was found with a stolen gun, was arrested in the city of DeLand in the US state of Florida on Tuesday.

The Volusia Sheriff’s Office said: “Davion Smith (DOB 10/1/2002), was caught after bailing out from the car and running to a storage unit complex, where a deputy spotted him minutes later and took him into custody.”

The incident began when an officer on patrol spotted a Mercury Grand Marquis that previously fled from him last week.

Cops attempted a traffic stop, and it appeared as though the driver was attempting to pull over when they noticed an altercation inside the vehicle.

One officer wrote in his report: “The passenger began moving back and forth in the seat consistent with an individual removing a handgun from his waist band.”

The cops then witnessed the driver trying to exit the vehicle before the passenger pulled him back in and pointed a gun at his head. The vehicle then sped away.

The Volusia Sheriff’s Office said: “Deputies caught up with the vehicle a short distance away, in a parking lot at 880 N Spring Garden Avenue, where the driver surrendered and cooperated fully. He explained he was trying to stop, but that Smith jumped on top of him, pressed the gas and drove the vehicle until they came to a stop.”

Meanwhile, another officer spotted Smith at the storage complex and arrested him while backup units responded.

On the ground next to the vehicle, cops recovered a gun that was reported as stolen in an armed robbery in DeLand in March. The suspect in that gunpoint robbery had a description similar to Smith’s, according to the police.

Inside the car, officers found two baggies of heroin in the passenger door cubby.

The police said: “Smith was charged with kidnapping, carjacking with a firearm, carrying a concealed firearm, possession of heroin, possession of a firearm by an adjudicated delinquent, two counts of fleeing or attempting to elude law enforcement, grand theft of a firearm, and no valid driver’s license.”

The suspect’s previous juvenile charges include heroin trafficking and destroying evidence. In 2018, at the age of 15, he was arrested for robbery with a firearm. In 2017, at the age of 14, he was arrested for grand theft and tampering with an electronic monitor. In 2016, at the age of 13, he was arrested for robbery with a weapon and aggravated assault with a weapon.

In each case, Smith was placed in a juvenile commitment programme.

In addition to the above cases, Smith had felony arrests in 2020 for aggravated assault with a weapon, inciting a riot at a detention facility in 2018, resisting an officer with violence in 2016, and burglary in 2015 when he was 12 that were all non-filed.

On Wednesday, Smith was being held without bond at the Volusia County Branch Jail.