This is the moment a crook was caught after his illegal off-road motorbike stalled during a police chase.
Adrian Johnson, 44, who has previous convictions for theft and burglary, was riding the scrambler without a number plate when he was spotted by a police officer in a patrol car.
Dashcam footage shows him undertaking cars as he sped through Bestwood, Nottingham, at around 2pm on January 15 this year.
Johnson stalled the bike at a roundabout but managed to restart it and rode off at speed through residential streets.
The crook rode the wrong way around a roundabout, through a red light and careered over a central reservation, narrowly missing oncoming cars.
Pictured: Adrian Johnson, 44, who has previous convictions for theft and burglary
A police officer runs after the crook on the illegal motorbike
Johnson pictured after he stalled his bike and just before he was arrested
Adrian Johnson, tries to evade police on the motorbike by going through red lights
Johnson was finally caught when he mounted the pavement and attempted to weave his way through a set of bollards and down an alleyway.
Video shows the bike stalling for a second time but before he can get it started an officer drags him to the floor and arrests him.
Sergeant David Stafford, of Nottinghamshire Police, said: ‘This was a terrible display of riding that could easily have caused serious injury to another road user, a pedestrian, or to Johnson himself.
‘By riding through residential streets in the way he did he showed absolutely no regard to anyone else.
Dashcam footage shows him undertaking cars as he sped through Bestwood, Nottingham
The crook stalled the motorcycle twice before he was finally arrested
Johnson later kicked a window repeatedly as he was driven to the police station
‘I am pleased he has now been jailed and hope this sentence serves as a warning to others about the potential consequences of this type of riding.’
When Johnson was being driven to a police station, he repeatedly kicked a window in the van causing damage.
He admitted dangerous driving, driving without insurance, driving without a license, and criminal damage.
He also admitted to a theft at a supermarket on December 8 last year, and to three shop thefts in Hucknall and Nottingham in November and December.
Johnson, of Nottingham, was jailed for two years and five months at the city’s crown court on Monday. He was also banned from driving for 18 months.
