DEERFIELD, Mass. (WHDH) – An Agawam man is facing OUI drugs charges after striking and seriously injuring two Deerfield police officers Saturday morning.
Timothy M. Avery, 27, was detained by local police at Route 10 and Childs Cross Road in Deerfield after an investigation.
A trooper who responded to the crash around 2 a.m. determined that Avery was under the influence of narcotics, according to state police.
Dring a search of the 2001 Chrysler PT Cruiser Avery was driving, troopers found a pill canister containing one whole pill and two partial pills that he had no prescription for.
The pills were secured as evidence and will be submitted or analysis.
In addition to performing several field sobriety tests at the scene of the crash, Avery was examined at a police station by a certified Drug Recognition Expert.
Avery was charged with operating under the influence of drugs causing serious bodily injury, operating a motor vehicle negligently to endanger, and failure to move over for an emergency vehicle.
Avery was ordered held on $10,000 cash bail plus a $40 bail fee.
He transported to the Franklin County House of Correction to be held pending bail payment or arraignment Monday in Greenfield District Court.
The officers were transported to Baystate Medical Center with serious but not life-threatening injuries.
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