NORTH MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Florida Highway Patrol troopers arrested a man wanted for questioning in a Louisiana murder following a pursuit that began on Miami Gardens Drive over the weekend.

Cecil Aure Hall, 36, of Baywood, Mississippi, is also facing serious charges in South Florida after troopers said he intentionally rammed a cruiser with the victim’s Chevrolet Tahoe ― with a grin on his face.

According to an FHP arrest report, detectives with the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office tracked Hall’s cellphone to the 18100 block of Northwest Second Court at around 3:30 p.m. Saturday. Soon after, a trooper saw him driving east on Miami Gardens Drive.

After an attempt to pull him over, Hall "failed to stop and began making evasive maneuvers attempting to flee from law enforcement," troopers said.

He eventually drove south onto Northeast Sixth Avenue, where a trooper unsuccessfully tried to stop him with a PIT maneuver, the report states.

After Hall tried to make a U-turn, a second PIT maneuver near 175th Street flipped the SUV around, with Hall facing the trooper’s cruiser.

"I had (a) clear view of the driver through the front windshield and observed him smile while driving the vehicle forward and striking my door," the arresting trooper wrote iin the report.

Hall finally stopped after a third intentional hit, the report states. He got out and began walking away and troopers stopped him, they said.

Hall resisted arrest "by tensing his arms and reaching for his waistband" and Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputies assisted in subduing him, according to the report.

The report states that after being taken into custody, Hall told a trooper, "Sir, there’s a handgun in the vehicle and drugs that are mine and I need them or I’ll kill my children."

Video taken by Local 10 News at the scene showed that the black Tahoe, which was towed from the scene, was outfitted with what appeared to be police lights, as well as a windshield sticker shaped like a police badge and a “thin blue line” front license plate.

Hall was arrested on Florida charges of aggravated battery on a law enforcement officer with a deadly weapon, fleeing and eluding and grand theft of motor vehicle parts.

He remained held without bond in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center as of Monday afternoon.

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