A motorcycle driver led Minnesota state troopers on a wild and winding chase through the metro area Saturday night that lasted an hour and hit a top speed of 150 miles per hour.

The driver, identified by the patrol as 27-year-old Jorrell Coppage of Brooklyn Park, eventually ditched the bike and fled on foot. He was arrested in Minneapolis and is jailed and awaiting charges.

The pursuit started just before 11 p.m., according to Sgt. Jesse Grabow, a State Patrol spokesman. A trooper, responding to several complaints about the driving behavior of a group of motorcycles, tried to stop the group for speeding on eastbound Interstate 94.

In scanner audio posted by the website Minnesota Police Clips, a trooper can be heard saying: “I’ll just pick the fastest one and see what happens.”

The trooper clocked the motorcyclists at more than 100 mph. When he turned on his lights, the group fled.

“They’re all running,” he said in the scanner audio.

The trooper pursued the lead bike, which went up Interstate 35E and made it all the way to Wyoming, Minn. — past Forest Lake in Chisago County — before turning around at an exit ramp and making its way back to Minneapolis.

At one point in the scanner clip, the trooper gave a speed that the dispatcher repeated as 115 mph. The trooper corrected: “150 — one-five-zero.”

The trooper was prepared to end the pursuit as it dragged on, saying “we’re going to discontinue before he kills himself or someone else.”

But Coppage eventually abandoned the motorcycle and ran, Grabow said. He was caught about 45 minutes later.

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