A traffic stop on State Highway 75, just about a mile north of the Madison County line, turned into much more than just a traffic stop Monday afternoon.

"I walked up to the vehicle, and smelled the odor of marijuana,” said Department of Public Safety Trooper Justin Reese.

Twenty-eight-year-old Moses Gibson was asked to step out of his vehicle.

“I asked him about the odor in the car and he denied everything. He kept walking back towards the vehicle, I kept trying to get him to stay in the same spot,” said Reese.

But he didn't -- Trooper Justin Reese says a very uncooperative Gibson continued pacing back and forth.

"He made me nervous at that point, so I decided I was going to detain him,” explained Reese. “I put him on the hood of my car and was going to put him in handcuffs, and when I went to put him in handcuffs, he turned around and elbowed me in the face.”

Gibson fled the scene with his two passengers inside; 38-year-old Christina Pointer, a front passenger, and an unidentified male sitting in the backseat.

"I followed him with my gun and I told him to get out of the vehicle and he continued running so I shot his back left tire out,” added Reese.

Reese says the man sitting in the backseat jumped out of the car window as Gibson was taking off. "He didn't want to have any part in the crime," added Reese.

Eight miles later, Moses Gibson came to a stop near a private residential road where a citizen reportedly held him at gunpoint until police arrived.

“The ranch hands around here -- they like to protect their own property -- and he did what he felt he should do,” Reese said. "He called the sheriff's office and both me and the sheriff came down and arrested him."

Both Gibson and his passenger, 38-year-old Christina Pointer, were arrested. Pointer was arrested on outstanding warrants.