SALT LAKE CITY — A motorcyclist who allegedly reached 138 mph in a pursuit last May with authorities that started on Trapper’s Loop Road in Weber County and extended into Salt Lake County has been arrested, nearly a month later.

Richard Goulet, 42, of Magna was arrested Tuesday and booked into the Weber County Jail on Wednesday on charges of failure to stop at the command of police, a third-degree felony, and not having a plate on his motorcycle, an infraction. The pursuit occurred on May 21 after state troopers attempted to stop the motorcyclist for traveling in excess of 100 mph on Trapper’s Loop Road, or state Route 167, near the Snowbasin ski resort.

“Agents used multiple investigative resources to help identify the rider,” the Utah Highway Patrol said in a statement Wednesday.

In fleeing law enforcement officials, Goulet reached speeds of up to 138 mph as he headed toward Interstate 84, followed in the air by a Utah Department of Public Safety helicopter, according to the highway patrol. “On a side note, he flipped me off when he went past me,” said one of the officials on the ground in the radio chatter accompanying DPS aerial video of the motorcyclist as he attempted to elude officials.

Goulet’s route — “traveling in the oncoming lanes, even as vehicles were approaching, to illegally pass other motorists” — took him through Riverdale to southbound I-15 in Davis County. “The helicopter followed the motorcycle as it continued traveling over 100 mph weaving in and out of traffic and splitting cars. The rider proceeded onto I-80 and traveled westbound towards Tooele, then exited at SR-201 and traveled eastbound,” the highway patrol said.

Those in the helicopter subsequently lost sight of the motorcyclist, at this point in Salt Lake County, but Utah’s State Bureau of Investigation subsequently picked up the investigation.

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