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Officials arrested a driver that had allegedly stolen a car on a freeway in southern California following a long pursuit.

The footage, captured on the southbound 405 Freeway on Thursday (April 12), shows the moment police officers take the driver of the stolen vehicle into custody.

After a chase of 70 miles from the Inland Empire to South Bay, an SUV executed a manoeuvre that caused the car to flip around and become surrounded by police authorities.

The pursuit driver then jumped into the backseat of the stolen car, where he allegedly smoked a meth pipe, reports say.

The filmer writes: "I was able to pull up on the side of the freeway off-ramp to get a better and closer look at the scene and was able to film the suspect getting into the back seat, I literally made eye contact with him.

"He then pulled out his pipe and lighter and began to smoke.

‘’The California Highway Patrol officers started to shoot through the windows but did not hit the suspect.

‘’Then they sent in a K9 to attack the suspect and were able to pull the suspect out of the car.’’

High-speed chase on 405 comes to an end and I got a front row seat

I was driving down the 405 freeway and The suspect flew right by me. I started to film as this was my first time seeing a high speed pursuit in person. I was luckily behind the chp as they were following the suspect and once the chp officer was able to do the pit maneuver on him, the pursuit quickly came to a stop and i was able to get a closer look. I was able to pull up on the side of the freeway off-ramp to get a better and closer look at the scene and was able to film the suspect get into the back seat. I literally made eye contact with the suspect. He began to pull out his pipe and lighter and began to start smoking. The chp officers started to shoot through the windows but did not hit the suspect. The chp then sent in the K9 to attack the suspect and chp was able to pull the suspect out of the car and put him in custody.