Dramatic moment Ohio state troopers race after four escaped convicts after they sped away

This is the dramatic moment Ohio state troopers pursue a car full of escaped convicts after they fled from a traffic stop.

Police came across the four suspects during a stop for a basic traffic violation on Friday, only to have their car take off at high speed.

Officers pursued the car to a residential neighborhood, where the convicts stopped and fled on foot. All four were captured shortly after.

The suspects - Aaron Sebastian, Lujuan Tucker, Dakota Pace, and Kelly McSean - were imprisoned for felony charges and escaped from the Missouri prison last Tuesday.

A fifth escaped inmate was not in the car with the suspects, and was separately apprehended.

Aaron Sebastian, 30, and Kelly McSean, 52, were both imprisoned for sex crimes

Dakota Pace, 26, and Lujuan Tucker, 37, were both a part of the car chase on Friday night

Dashboard camera footage from a state trooper patrol car showed a pair of officers pulling over a four-door Scion sedan on the side of the highway north of Cincinnati around 9.30pm Friday night. It is unclear why they were stopped, but their car appeared to be swerving.

Two officers approached the Scion, and began speaking to the occupants while shining their flashlights into the car.

Little more than a minute into the traffic stop the car suddenly accelerated off the shoulder and took off down the highway, causing the troopers to jump out of the way and run back to their car to begin pursuit.

The officers chased the Scion down the highway, off an exit ramp, through busy intersections, and ultimately into the Brooke Hill Court off Willow Brook Drive in Liberty Township.

Officers confront the the car after pulling it over for a traffic violation

Officers speak with the four men inside the Scion on Friday night

The car took off during the stop, and police pursued them down the highway

As the Scion was still skidding to a stop on the residential street, one of the suspects leapt out of the driver's side back door. The other doors then flew open and the other three suspects ran off into the night.

Officers gave chase on foot, and ultimately captured McSean, 52, who sexually assaulted a 39-year-old woman in 2003, and Sebastian, 30, who attempted to sodomize a seven-year-old girl in 2011 when he was 18.

Tucker, 37, was captured hiding in nearby woods at about 2:15am the following morning. He was incarcerated for raping a 12-year-old girl when he was 17.

Pace, 26, was caught about a half-mile from where he ran from the car. He was in jail for tampering with a motor vehicle and stealing.

The fleeing car pulled into a residential street after being chased by police

The suspects fled on foot into the night as police gave chase

Officers ran after the suspects when they fled from the car

One of the suspects is returned in handcuffs after fleeing from police on foot

All four men were returned to the St. Francois County Detention Center, where they'd escaped from earlier in the week.

The men were a secured cell, then opened a door 'by use of force.' From there they got onto the roof of the prison and made their way onto the ground, and finally stole a car form a nearby parking lot and took off.

'The inmates then made their way to the roof of the Detention Center and eventually onto the ground,' police said. 'The inmates made their way to the Centene Corporation within 15 minutes, entered through the secured parking lot and stole a grey 2009 Scion TC with Missouri temporary tags. 

A fifth inmate who escaped with them,  Michael Wilkins, 42, was caught earlier Friday. He had been jailed for second-degree burglary.

Michael Wilkins, 42, was caught earlier Friday. He had been jailed for second-degree burglary