UPDATE: Suspect accused of hitting DEA officer with car during drug arrest identified

MIDDLETOWN, R.I. (WLNE) — Middletown police have identified the suspect in a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) arrest that resulted in the suspect allegedly ramming an officer with his car, prompting other officers to fire their service weapons.

Justin Deprospo, 39, of Rochester, Mass., is charged with three counts of felonious assault, one count of manufacturing, delivering, possessing with intent to distribute Schedule I-V, one count of conspiracy of manufacturing, one count of resisting legal arrest among several other counts.

The incident occurred Thursday at 12:30 p.m. at a Home Depot in Middletown, where DEA officers attempted to arrest Deprospo before he allegedly hit an officer with his car and fled.

Officers discharged their service weapons at the car and the suspect entered a residential neighborhood a half mile away and crashed into a cruiser on Ridgewood Road.

Both the suspect and the officer he is accused of striking were treated for non-life-threatening injuries.

Deprospo will be arraigned in Second Division District Court in Newport Friday.