Dashboard camera video was released Tuesday after an Arkansas prosecutor announced that law enforcement officers were justified when they opened fire on a suspect who ran over a deputy with his vehicle.
Six Benton County deputies and a Cave Springs police officer were involved in the undercover operation on April 23 in Rogers in which they planned to buy methamphetamine from 33-year-old Jose Luis Centeno Jr., according to KFSM-TV.
The officers moved in on the suspect in the parking lot of a 24-hour Walmart Supercenter on Pleasant Grove Road around 1 a.m. Two of the deputies and the police officer blocked Centeno's car in from the back while two other deputies blocked his car in from the front.
The law enforcement officers then exited their vehicles and ordered the suspect to show his hands.
Centeno started the car and rammed the Cave Springs officer's truck, causing the officer to fall to the ground. He then swerved the car toward the deputy who told him to show his hands and continued to swerve until he struck the deputy causing him to flip over the hood of the vehicle.
The other deputies and the officer then fired shots at the suspect, who continued to flee from the scene and jumped the median to leave the Walmart parking lot.
Centeno was taken into custody just north of the intersection of New Hope Road and 26th Street and faces charges of attempted capital murder, aggravated assault, leaving the scene of a personal injury accident, conspiracy to deliver methamphetamine, possession with intent to deliver methamphetamine, fleeing in a vehicle and tampering with physical evidence.
