Man accused of reaching 130 mph during chase on stolen motorcycle

A Jacksonville man has been charged with multiple offenses after a high speed chase on a stolen motorcycle.

Vino P. Lamb, 30, of Hines Farm Road, was charged by N.C. Highway Patrol Saturday with driving while impaired, eluding arrest with a motor vehicle, speeding, failing to heed a siren, driving without legal registration, unsafe passing yellow line, resisting a public officer, failing to stop at a red light, reckless driving and failing to wear a motorcycle helmet.

Trooper Matthew Bryan said he attempted to stop Lamb on the N.C. 24 bypass near Richlands at 3 a.m. Saturday when he suspected, due to the way he was driving, that Lamb was driving impaired. Lamb pulled off on the left side of the highway but when Bryan got out of his vehicle Lamb “cranked up the motorcycle and took off.”

Bryan said he gave chase and Lamb went through the N.C. 24 red light before turning on N.C. 53 toward Maple Hill.

“He passed several cars in the turning lane,” Bryan said. “He was traveling up to 130 miles per hour and he was not wearing a helmet.”

At Pony Farm Road and N.C. 53, Lamb drove off the shoulder of the road and lost control of the motorcycle, Bryan said.

“I had to fight him to place him under arrest,” he said. “He was not injured as a result of laying the motorcycle down.”

Bryan said Lamb was under the influence of alcohol and admitted to taking heroin.

He was charged by the Jacksonville Police Department with larceny of a motor vehicle, valued at $7,000, according to warrants.

Lamb was driving a stolen 2005 CBR 600 RR Honda, Bryan confirmed.

Lamb was also charged with assault on a female, according to warrants. He is accused of pulling a woman’s earrings out, ripping her shirt and slapping her.

Lamb’s previous convictions include possession of drug paraphernalia and worthless check in 2003, resisting an officer in 2004, identity fraud/theft in 2006, possessing stolen goods in 2007, identity fraud-theft in 2008, and larceny, communicating threats and second degree trespass in 2010, according to the N.C. Department of Correction.

Bonds totaled $11,500.