Lieutenant Joshua Philip Yabut was arrested Tuesday night after hijacking a tank-like personnel carrier from a National Guard base in Virginia, and led authorities on a two-hour chase.

Yabut, who was reportedly under the influence of drugs when he hijacked the massive M577 vehicle, shared shots of his 60-mile run through Virginia while tweeting bizarre comments, all while the police were on his tail.

Yabut tweeted a picture of himself with his helmet on and his head outside the vehicle, while making a hand-sign. He also tweeted a short video clip from inside the vehicle.

Among other bizarre tweets during the 40-mile-per-hour chase Yabut also wrote to Twitter: 'where is this damn water buffalo' and 'all i wanna do is get an anime wife.'

Just as authorities had begun their pursuit of Lieutenant Joshua Yabut (pictured), he tweeted this photo of himself, apparently on the open road, with the caption 'wutang clan ain’t nothin to f*** wit booiiiiiiii'

About a half hour before Yabut took off in the M577, he shared this shot of what appears to be the vehicle's interior

And just hours before the bizarre incident, he tweeted 'thinking about putting my packet in tbh.'

Yabut was a Lieutenant with an engineering battalion of the Virginia Army National Guard at Fort Pickett, where the vehicle was hijacked from.

The chase began at 7.55pm, while the vehicle wound through Virginia for over 60 miles.

The vehicle was not armed, and is designed for mobile command posts. However, Yabut did have his service weapon on him, but it did not have ammunition in it, according to WTVR.

The soldier led police to Virginia's capitol of Richmond, and was heading through downtown straight toward the Capitol building.

Capitol police officers with combat-style rifles guarded the entrance to Capitol Square as a police helicopter shined a spotlight on the vehicle and police worked to stop traffic.

Stunned onlookers filmed the chase as dozens of police cars pursued the vehicle along Route 460, Interstate 95, and through the streets of Richmond.

At some points the vehicle topped speeds of 45 miles per hour, but fortunately no accidents were reported.

Twitter users compared the bizarre scene to something out of video game Grand Theft Auto.

An armored personnel carrier tore through the streets of Richmond on Monday after a soldier stole it from a National Guard base and drove it 60 miles to Virginia's capitol

Dozens of police vehicles, armed officers and a helicopter followed the vehicle with bystanders comparing it to something out of Grand Theft Auto

Nico Rico wrote: 'Lmao someone stole an armored personnel carrier and acting like Richmond part of GTA.'

'This is INSANE! Someone has hijacked a 'Tank-like' vehicle from Fort Pickett and just drove it by our apartment!,' Parker Slaybaugh, communications director for the Virginia Speaker of the House, added.

At about 9.40pm the driver drove the armored vehicle onto a median and was surrounded by police.

The soldier got out of the M577 through the roof hatch, and clamored down.

He dropped to his knees, and then refused commands, so Virginia State Police tasered him.

He was first brought to the hospital, and then hauled to jail.

'The unit was conducting routine training at Fort Pickett when [Yabut] drove away in the armored personnel carrier,' Virginia National Guard spokesperson Cotton Puryear said, according to WTVR.

'The vehicle was not equipped with any weapons, but the soldier did have his personal weapon with him but had no ammunition,' Puryear said.

Yabut was assigned as the commander of the Petersburg-based Headquarters Company, 276th Engineer Battalion, and that he has more than 11 years of service, according to the Virginia National Guard.

He also served in Afghanistan from 2008 to 2009 with the Illinois National Guard

Virginia State Police are investigating.

After two hours the vehicle ran into the meridian near Richmond City Hall and the driver got out, before he was Tasered and arrested

Officers spent more than two hours pursuing the vehicle along two highways before it eventually came to a stop in Richmond, where the driver was arrested

Earlier in the day Yabut tweeted a map of the Capitol building in Richmond, and a Wikipedia entry on an M113, which is similar to the M577 he allegedly hijacked

'We are extremely grateful that there were no injuries as a result of this incident, and we appreciate the great work of the Virginia State Police, Richmond Police Department and other law enforcement and first responders who safely brought this situation to a close,' Maj. Gen. Timothy P. Williams, the Adjutant General of Virginia, said, WTVR reported.

'We have initiated our own internal investigation, and we will determine appropriate actions once the investigation is complete.'

Yabut was taken into custody in downtown Richmond just before 10pm and is being held at the Richmond jail.

The soldier is facing a couple of different criminal outcomes in the case.

Civilian authorities could turn all the matters over to the military to prosecute- or he could face a military court martial and will still also be charged in other jurisdictions, according to WTKR.