OXFORD – A Cumberland man was being treated for injuries sustained after a police chase that started in Oxford and ended in Yarmouth late Wednesday night.

Colin Willette, 34, of 18 Woodside Drive was being treated for neck and back pain at Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine State Police Trooper Nathan Jamo said early Thursday morning.

Willette was involved in an altercation over 40 PlayStation games at the home of Richard Tayman, 34, of 128 Hogan Lane in Oxford, Oxford police Sgt. Rickie Jack said.

Jack and Patrolman Christopher Knight were called to Tayman’s home at 8:13 p.m. for a report of an assault that was currently going on and that a motorcycle was involved. When they pulled onto Hogan Lane and saw a motorcycle coming toward them, he said, they put on the blue cruiser lights, and the biker yelled he wasn’t involved as he drove by while police yelled for him to stop.

The officers first pursued the motorcyclist, but after hearing the people at Tayman’s house were barricaded inside because someone was trying to get in, they went to the residence, Jack said. They found Tayman and his girlfriend, 29-year-old Amy Champion.

Jack said Tayman told police Willette had stolen 40 Playstation games from him earlier in the day and after a phone call between the two Willette came to the house and the two got into a fight.

“Apparently, according to Richard, Colin had thrown a stone from a stonewall at Richard and actually hit him in the arm and stomach. Richard was bleeding,” Jack said.

“Richard was defending himself and went after Colin with a metal pipe and told him to get off his property. Colin told Richard he was coming back with a gun,” the officer said.

Willette is Champion’s ex-boyfriend, Jack said Tayman and Champion told him.

“We spoke to witnesses which pretty much confirmed that Colin Willette was the aggressor who showed up there,” Jack said.

As Jack sorted out the scene at the home, Norway police Sgt. James Ventresca was enroute to assist when he encountered Willette’s motorcycle coming off Main Street onto King street and it almost hit his cruiser, Jack said.

The pursuit went onto Route 121 to Mechanic Falls, along Elm Street, Harris Hill Road and then onto Dunn Road in Poland, where State Police Trooper Nathan Jamo took over from Ventresca.

Jamo said from there, Willette continued onto Bald Hill Road in New Gloucester, and Route 100 into Gray Square, then Route 115 to North Yarmouth where he dumped the bike trying to turn onto Doughty Lane.

“He flipped off” the bike when the right side foot peg hit the pavement and the machine stopped abruptly, Jamo said.

When police tried to take him into custody he resisted and a Cumberland County deputy zapped him with a Taser, Jamo said. Willette was taken to Maine Medical Center in Portland by ambulance after complaining of neck and back pain.

Jamo said Willette will be taken to Cumberland County Jail in Portland after treatment and state police plan to charge him with eluding an officer, passing a roadblock driving to endanger, operating after suspension and operating without a motorcycle license.

There are also Androscoggin County Sheriff’s Department warrants on Willette for operating after suspension and theft, the trooper said.

Jack said Oxford Police Department plans to charge Willette with terrorizing and failure to stop for a police officer.

The incident remains under investigation, he said.

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