CRANSTON — David V. Barry, who allegedly plowed his Nissan into a uniformed patrolman during a traffic stop Saturday night, has surrendered to the state police.

Barry, 28, of North Providence, turned himself at the state police headquarters, in Scituate, at 8:20 p.m. on Monday, two days after the altercation on Pleasant Street and a day after he allegedly rammed two occupied state police vehicles to avoid arrest.

“It’s good he’s off the street,” Maj. Steven G. O’Donnell, the state police spokesman, said yesterday.

Barry was detained overnight in Scituate, and yesterday morning he was ordered held on $2,500 bail by District Court Judge Michael A. Higgins at an initial court appearance.

He is being detained at the Adult Correctional Institutions, according to prison spokeswoman Tracey Z. Poole.

The state police charged Barry with two felony counts of assault with a dangerous weapon and a misdemeanor charge of leaving the scene of an accident that caused property damage.

The first incident occurred around 11:15 p.m. on Saturday, after the Cranston police patrolman, driving a marked cruiser, stopped Barry for driving erratically.

As the patrolman approached Barry’s 1995 Nissan Maxima, Barry shifted into reverse and struck him, toppling him and dragging him 15 feet, the police said.

He then attempted to hit the patrolman a second time, prompting him to fire his .40-caliber Glock pistol at the Nissan, the police said. The bullet shattered the rear, driver’s-side window and Barry allegedly sped off, crossing a front yard as he raced toward Providence.

As the patrolman was taken to Rhode Island Hospital, the police initiated a massive response, placing midnight phone calls to off-duty detectives as well as the police chief, Col. Stephen C. McGrath.

(The police have declined to identify the patrolman, who had been working a traffic enforcement detail that night. He was released from the hospital early Sunday. The police have not disclosed whether he has recovered from his injuries.)

Despite the combined efforts of at least 20 officers — and a statewide bulletin describing the Nissan and its driver, a balding man with a light goatee — Barry remained at large for most of Sunday.

Late that night, the police received information indicating that they could find Barry and his Nissan at a condominium complex at 630 Smithfield Rd., in North Providence. Cranston detectives and the state police found the car, and at around 11 p.m. Barry returned to the parking lot, driving his girlfriend’s Ford Mustang.

By that time, the Cranston police had charged Barry with a felony count of assault, a felony count of assault with a dangerous weapon and misdemeanor charges of vandalism and eluding a police officer.

The state police attempted to trap him in the parking lot, positioning one vehicle blocking the exit and another behind the Mustang. But Barry escaped again, the police said, by maneuvering backward into one state police cruiser and then careering into the second, nearly striking Sgt. Kevin Hawkins, who dove into the car just before the collision.

“He would have been crushed,” state police Lt. John T. Leyden III, the officer in charge of the Intelligence Unit, said yesterday. “He hit the whole driver’s side of the car.”

The police did not pursue Barry, fearing that a high-speed chase would result in property damage and injuries to bystanders. But less than an hour later they had contacted Barry on his girlfriend’s cellular phone for the first of several conversations with him over the next 24 hours.

Barry’s girlfriend, Maria Ranieri, 34, lives with Barry in North Providence, according to a police affidavit.

Barry and Ranieri stashed the Mustang at the Barnstable Municipal Airport and hid out at a hotel in Hyannis, Mass., the police said.

But he was not trying to flee, Leyden said, and he consented to at least five conversations with Cranston police detectives and members of the state police, including Leyden, Hawkins and Detectives Timothy Allen and William Accardi.

“We pleaded with him just to turn himself in before there’s any other injured officers or innocent bystanders,” Leyden said. “He was very anxious and nervous, but ultimately he did the right thing and turned himself in.”

Barry is scheduled to appear today in Kent County District Court, where the Cranston police filed charges, police Cmdr. Kevin M. Lynch said.

The two cases will be reviewed by the attorney general’s office and then transferred to Superior Court, according to Michael J. Healey, a spokesman for the attorney general.

This is not Barry’s first run-in with the police. Last December, he pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of obstructing a police officer in East Providence. He received a one-year suspended sentence and one year of probation.

bgedan@projo.com