JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A truck that was stolen Thursday in a carjacking crashed into the yard of a home on Starratt Road after a police pursuit Friday morning on the Northside, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office.

Police said residents in a subdivision on Yellow Bluff Road called to report someone driving a truck erratically over mailboxes. The officer who responded saw the truck, which was reported stolen, and tried to pull it over, but the man behind the wheel kept driving.

The officer called in backup and several cruisers chased the truck for several miles through the Northside. During the pursuit, the truck hit one of the police cars but kept going, authorities said.

The pursuit ended about 2 miles away on Starratt Road, where witnesses said it went through a yard behind a home and over a septic tank before hitting two trailers and crashing into a shed.

"I woke up to a bunch of police sirens, and I heard a big boom," Destiny Easter said. "The police told us to get inside. It was really scary. I did not know what was going on."

The man, whose name has not been released, was arrested at gunpoint.

Homeowner Michael Williams said his mother was in the yard just five minutes before the chase ended there, but thankfully she wasn't hurt.

"It's a pretty quiet neighborhood. We don't get drama like this out here," Williams said. "But we got some excitement today."

The man is accused of taking the truck from a woman Thursday afternoon in an armed carjacking at the Honey Baked Ham store on San Jose Boulevard.

Evidence technicians found a gun and a large knife inside the truck, police said. The tread on the truck's tires had completely ripped off and the man was driving on the truck's rims.

The cruiser was damaged when the truck hit it, but police said no one was injured.

The man is being interviewed by JSO robbery detectives.