The incorrect-way Mercedes driver who almost plowed into an NYPD detective in a wild caught-on-video crash stored a stash of heroin in a fanny pack within the automotive, officers mentioned.
Juan Tenorio Ramos, 24, put the pedal to the metallic in his white Mercedes with Florida plates down Henry Road in Carroll Gardens round 8:25 a.m. Sunday, barely lacking the detective earlier than he T-boned a blue Audi with Connecticut plates, based on cops and a legal grievance.
The Audi then slammed into the Backyard Gourmand Deli and Grill on the nook — utterly shattering the entrance show window and bending the entrance entrance door on its hinges, based on the court docket doc and wild surveillance footage confirmed.
“We simply heard an enormous brake. … Impulsively, I noticed a automotive flying and hit my retailer,” proprietor Khalid Sarsour, 63, instructed The Submit. “I don’t suppose I’ll have the ability to sleep due to a few of the trauma.”
Ramos was arrested on the scene of the caught-on-video smash-up and located to be driving with a fanny pack holding heroin, MDMA and LSD, based on the grievance.
He was not intoxicated on the time of the crash, cops mentioned.
In the meantime, his front-seat passenger was left with a fractured arm, and the Audi driver suffered a minimize on his foot and whiplash, the court docket doc mentioned. Each had been hospitalized in secure situation, cops mentioned.
Ramos was charged with legal possession of a managed substance, reckless endangerment, legal mischief and reckless driving, prosecutors mentioned.
About 10 minutes earlier and a couple of mile from the deli destruction, Ramos allegedly sideswiped one other Mercedes driver and took off — leaving her with whiplash, based on that grievance.
He was charged with leaving the scene of an accident with out reporting and reckless driving, prosecutors mentioned.
He was arraigned in connection to each incidents and granted supervised launch on the non-bail-eligible fees, based on the Brooklyn District Lawyer’s Workplace.
Ramos was beforehand arrested on July 4 at Simonsen Place and Castleton Avenue on Staten Island — the place cops caught him and an confederate in possession of cocaine inside a Mercedes with the intent to promote the drug, based on that grievance.
A switchblade was additionally discovered within the automotive, and Ramos was present in possession of $3,900, the court docket doc mentioned.
In that case, Ramos was additionally granted supervised launch.
“Sadly, because of New York State’s so-called bail reform legal guidelines, all drug crimes are bail ineligible except for one, permitting the overwhelming majority of alleged drug sellers and traffickers to be launched again onto the streets,” a spokesperson for the Richmond County District Lawyer’s Workplace mentioned in an announcement.
He was additionally arrested in Harlem again in April for drug possession, aggravated unlicensed operation of a car and failure to yield to a pedestrian, cops mentioned.
The outcomes of that case weren’t instantly clear.
