Self-professed S.A. drug dealer picks wrong place to get high

Gilbert Ramirez, 41, faces six felony drug charges and a misdemeanor evading arrest charge. He was booked into the Bexar County Jail Friday on a $42,000 bond. Gilbert Ramirez, 41, faces six felony drug charges and a misdemeanor evading arrest charge. He was booked into the Bexar County Jail Friday on a $42,000 bond. Photo: Bexar County Jail Photo: Bexar County Jail Image 1 of / 26 Caption Close Self-professed S.A. drug dealer picks wrong place to get high 1 / 26 Back to Gallery

A self-professed drug dealer was arrested last month after parking next to an unmarked police squad car to do drugs.

Gilbert Ramirez, 41, faces six felony drug charges and a misdemeanor evading arrest charge. He was booked into the Bexar County Jail Friday on a $42,000 bond.

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According to his arrest affidavit, San Antonio police officers were monitoring an unidentified area that "has been plagued with narcotic trafficking, property crimes and prostitution."

While surveying the area, Ramirez and another man pulled up and parked directly next to the officers, who were in an unmarked car.

Police say Ramirez parked close enough to where they could see into his window as he pulled out a large plastic bag with smaller plastic bags filled with a white substance.

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The officers got out of their car and flashed their badges. Ramirez then "apologized and dropped the baggie onto his driver's seat."

He then "blurted out that all he had was a little 'cream,'" a slang term for methamphetamine.

As he was arrested, Ramirez said "he had been through this s--t before" and that he "picks up and sells cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine throughout" San Antonio.

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Ramirez said he had just finished doing "drops" and had pulled over so he could "'hit' some of the product he had in his custody."

Ramirez was caught with 2.4 grams of cocaine, 7.4 grams of meth and 1 gram of heroin.

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