JERSEY CITY -- Fist and kicks flew when the owner of a stolen Honda Civic spotted his car as he drove to the Bayonne police station to report it stolen in an incident captured on video Sunday.

The owner of the vehicle was driving a minivan when he spotted his car and apparently cut it off at 42nd Street and Avenue C around 1:13 p.m. The vehicles came to a stop and two men begin beating the man behind the wheel of the Civic -- Ephraim Diaz, 26, of Atlantic City, police said today.

A woman is heard in the video screaming for the beating to stop. Diaz breaks away and is being chased as police sirens are heard. Police said he was arrested near 41st Street and Avenue C and charged with taking a vehicle without permission.

The Civic was last seen parked on Broadway between 27th and 28th streets at 10 p.m. Saturday. The owner spotted the car Sunday heading south on Avenue C around 28th Street. He called police and told them he was following his own car, Bayonne police Capt. Janine Foy said.

Asked if Diaz is being investigated in connection to a number of recent vehicle thefts in Bayonne, she said the allegations in this case do not point to an outright theft of the Civic.

The captain said it appears the Civic was loaned to someone and that person then loaned to someone else without the knowledge of the owner. Diaz was the only person charged. The owner of the car -- the wife of one of the men in the video -- said the car was not loaned to anyone, but the accused men kept saying that someone let him borrow it.