AFTON – An Afton motorcyclist who led Chenango County Sheriff deputies on a high speed chase in excess of 100 miles an hour, believed he evaded the police until he returned to his home and found officers waiting for him.

Monday evening, at around 5 p.m., a sheriff’s deputy on routine patrol passed a speeding motorcycle along State Highway 7 in the Town of Afton. The bike was traveling at such a high rate of speed that the officer immediately turned on his lights and spun the cruiser around to begin pursuit.

The operator of the motorcycle, 24-year-old Bryan S. Terpstra of Afton, allegedly decided to flee from the chasing officer by racing down the road in speeds in excess of a 100 miles an hour.

The short pursuit lasted only for a few miles after the deputy made a visual identification of Terpstra’s license plate.

“Typically we won’t pursue the vehicle at that point, not for a vehicle and traffic violation. Obviously if this individual had committed a criminal offense it would have been a different story,” said Sheriff’s Lt. James Lloyd.