Investigated for Possible Participation in a High Speed Chase

My question involves a traffic ticket from the state of: Virginia

Last year I bought a new motorcycle (a very bright and noticable one) And I let a friend take it on a ride one afternoon(with all my gear). I noticed he was gone a while but finally came back.

Fast forward a week later. I'm sitting at a gas station on same bike when I get approached by a state trooper asking who's bike, when I got it etc etc. I wouldn't answer any of his questions because I felt like I was being harassed for no reason. The cop informs me that my bike was involved in a high speed chase and they're sure it was this bike. I tell them I just got bike, I have NOT evaded any police and am I free to go.


After he snaps a few pictures of my bike, him and his buddies leave. They all go park at different areas of the street the gas station was on waiting for me to leave. So not knowing what to do, I called a friend to come pick me and the bike up. (This was all last August) No more incidents after this...

Now, Since riding weather is approaching I will be riding more and more. And I still see this particular trooper fairly often (not on the bike yet)

I'm just wondering if he pulls me over on the bike, can he arrest me and charge me?? Just based on the bikes appearance only??

I questioned my friend (who narrowed my bike) he admitted to passing a cop at a high rate of speed and just ducking down a few roads and never seeing him again. He's %100 they didn't see my tags (hard to see anyways) and that it wasn't a "chase" but he just avoided them.

What are the chances of them sticking me with this?? This was last summer so almost 8 months ago...

Your friend is an absolute idiot. Stay away from him. Eluding is eluding. Virginia courts take very dim views of such shenanigans, most judges will give him sixty days (suspended down to a week ) for that crap.

If they had a good ID on you, I suspect you would have been cited on the spot. Most likely they took your information and are sitting on it in case you (or your phantom friend) pulls this again.

Yes he is. The only info the cop got from me was my tag ## that isn't registered to me personally. I wouldn't give him my name or ID cause when he asked for it. I asked "do I have to give it to you?" And he said no, so I didn't... But there were other bikers present and we were all off our bikes so I didn't know if he needed me to be on the bike to justify a ticket/charge???

Get better friends, and if it was you driving, knock off the stupid crap.

If the cop can't ID you, he can't charge you. Now I'm sure you'll take that to mean "Just keep a helmet on and try to out run him, he won't be able to catch me when I'm going 150." I've seen not a few motorcyclists think that way; some end up dead.

You don't get any safe harbor for "getting off your bike," and frankly, claiming that he was wearing your PPG and hence it wasn't you may not stand up in court either.
As DD points out, stop being stupid and stop hanging around with the stupid.

You may have dodged it this time, but cops keep records of investigations such as this.

I'm not stupid. I have kids and a wife. I have friends who have died and others who have lost limbs on motorcycles. I know all to well what can happen. I would never run from a cop for a simple ticket. Dont have the skill or the guts. But I do hang out with other riders and some of them are wreckless, and I can't help that no matter how much I'd like to.

I just don't want to be arrested cause "we chased a red bike 8 months ago, and yours is red"

You can very MUCH be arrested. It's illegal to facilitate others in their crimes as well. Further, you can expect to get stopped (that just takes the suspicion of the officer) which you may find inconvenient. Seeing you on the same bike and in the same PPG as someone they observed breaking the law is ALSO probably sufficient probable cause for an arrest. If you're going to continue to loan out your bike and gear to criminals, I'd have the number of a good lawyer in your phone's memory in that case.

Here is the nicest end to a motorcyclist showing off on a crotch rocket.

https://video.search.yahoo.com/video...yfp-t-901&tt=b

I had a friend who decided to hang up riding motorcycles when he came blasting around a corner and slammed into the back of a garbage truck. Now his bike was subsequently found laying in the road, but nobody quite knew what happened to him. Turns out he was in the hopper of the garbage truck where he remained for several miles until they made another pickup. Apparently the driver of the truck felt nothing from the impact of the motorcycle.