Moment Columbian drug dealer escapes prosecutor's office by jumping from third floor stairway - but crash-lands on security guard's desk

This is the moment a drug dealer attempted to flee a prosecutor's office while his arrest was being processed, before falling from a third floor stairway and landing on a security guard's desk. 

The suspect, whose name was withheld by Medellín authorities, had been apprehended on January 11 for allegedly violating the terms of his house arrest in relations to a previous arrest for drug dealing, according to Colombian newspaper El Colombiano.

Arresting officers had just removed the handcuffs from the individual and were waiting to take his fingerprints when he made a dash for the exit of the Medellín prosecutor's office bunker, surveillance video shows.

The surveillance camera at a prosecutor's office in Medellín, Colombia, shows a drug dealer awaiting to have his fingerprints taken before he decided to try to escape on January 11. The suspect, who had been arrested for violating the terms of his home confinement, attempted to run out the facility but somehow tripped on a step in the third floor and fell from the stairway, crashing into a desk and nearly colliding with a security guard

As he ran, the man tripped and went flying through the open stairway guard rail, landing on his butt on top of a desk, destroying a laptop and narrowly avoiding a potential deadly collision with a security agent stationed at the desk.

The shocked worker was knocked off the chair and fell on top of the fleeing suspect. 

Still image of the surveillance video that shows the moment a drug dealer crashes into a desk after he fell from a third floor stairway in a failed attempt to escape from the prosecutor's office in Medellín, Colombia, on January 11

A security guard and cops tend to the drug dealers moments after he came crashing down after following from a third floor stairway at a prosecutor's office in Medellin. The man remains in custody

Authorities chase after the drug dealers moments as he tried to escape from the Medellín, Colombia, prosecutor's office before he tripped on a step and fell from a third floor stairway

Video shows the security officer checking the suspect's wellbeing as other officers rush over. 

Colonel Daniel Mazo, of the Valle de Aburrá Metropolitan Police, said the suspect was rushed to a local hospital and received medical attention. Mazo did not report the extent of the man's injuries.

The suspect, who remains in custody, has three prior charges for theft and was also charged for attempting to escape from the authorities.