Police: Motorcyclist, 21, hits 158 mph on Route 101, travels I-95, arrested in Greenland

GREENLAND — A 21-year-old motorcyclist is facing multiple charges, allegedly after speeding as high as 158 mph during a Sunday incident that began on Route 101 in Raymond and continued onto Routes 1 and 107 and Interstate 95 before ending at a gas station on Greenland Road.

The motorcyclist, a Farmington resident, is charged with felony reckless conduct – deadly weapon, resisting arrest, disobeying an officer, reckless driving, failing to display plates, unsafe lane change and unregistered vehicle.

Police said the incident started with receiving a report about a group of eastbound motorcycles on Route 101 riding "hazardously." Trooper Thomas Lombardi, who was in a state police aircraft, spotted the group and saw the 21-year-old motorcyclist pulling away from the rest, police said, passing multiple vehicles and driving between them.

Lombardi clocked the motorcycle at 158 mph, still going eastbound, and Trooper Samuel Provenza recorded it at 110 mph near the exit ramp for I-95, police said. Provenza also saw a passenger on the back and did not pursue the motorcycle, police said. Lombardi continued to follow it in the aircraft, police said, including onto Route 1 southbound. The motorcyclist again refused to stop for Provenza, still accelerating and passing vehicles recklessly, according to police. The motorcycle continued onto Route 107 and then entered I-95 northbound, police said, clocked at 144 mph.

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The motorcycle took Exit 3 in Greenland and pulled into a gas station, where Sgt. John LaPointe took him into custody, police said.

The motorcyclist was being held Sunday in preventative detention at the Rockingham County House of Corrections and scheduled to be arraigned Monday in the Hampton District Court on Monday.