A State College man was apprehended and placed in Centre County Prison without bail after a high-speed chase through three townships yesterday afternoon.

Duane L. Custred, 21, 1762 N. Atherton St., was clocked at 88 m.p.h. on State Route 550 near the University Park Airport, state police at Rockview said yesterday. Police pursued Custred after he did not pull off the road when first spotted. The chase occurred from 2 to 2:20 in the afternoon.

Custred led officers from Patton Township, Penn State and state police at Rockview on a chase through Benner, Patton and Half Moon townships. He ran several partial roadblocks before he was stopped, police said.

Custred, who was on probation from Centre County Prison, has been returned to the prison for his second parole violation, a Centre County Prison official said last night. He will also be charged with reckless endangerment and numerous traffic violations, state police at Rockview said.

Custred had been in Centre County prison last year for a parole violation, prison officials said. He was imprisoned on June 4 for receiving stolen property. Custred was released and put on probation again Dec. 2, officials said.

A University student died in late 1988 after he crashed while attempting to elude State College police who began pursuing him in the Parkway Plaza on Westerly Parkway.

Gerald Alan Biacchi, 21, of Berwick, died instantly when his motorcycle crashed into an unmarked state police cruiser set up as a roadblock on East College Avenue near Squirrel Drive.

The police were widely criticized for the chase, but a coroner's jury last summer ruled Biacchi caused his own death by attempting to escape at speeds of nearly 100 miles per hour.