SALINE COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities are investigating a suspect wanted on a Kansas Department of Corrections Warrant and captured after a high-speed chase.

Just after noon Wednesday, a Department of Corrections officer saw wanted felon 30-year-old Markus Johnstone riding a motorcycle in Salina, according to Sheriff Roger Soldan

The officer spotted Johnstone in the 600 block of E. Elm and lost sight of him while trying to turn his vehicle around.

A short time later, the officer located the motorcycle in the 600 block of N. Santa Fe and when he tried to pull Johnstone over, he rode off at a high rate of speed and eluded law enforcement on several north Salina streets.

The pursuit reached speeds of 100mph on North Highway 81. Then Johnstone left the highway and went on the property of the Smoky Hill Winery, around the buildings and out across a pasture before the motorcycle struck a downed tree between a hedgerow and a fence gate. Johnstone was not hurt and was taken into custody without incident.

He was booked into the Saline County Jail on a Department of Corrections warrant, and Flee and Elude, and driving while suspended, according to Soldan.

Johnstone has 11 previous convictions for theft, criminal possession of a firearm, obstruction, criminal use of a financial card and various drug charges.