ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. -- A man showing off his OnStar system in his Cadillac Escalade found out the system worked too well.





Ralph A. Gomez, 38, was being held in the St. Johns County Jail Wednesday on $15,000 bond on charges of possession of an illegal narcotic within 1,000 feet of a church and possession of drug paraphernalia.





Gomez was showing off his OnStar system to his girlfriend, but the volume was set so low that he couldn't hear the OnStar operator. OnStar comes on many new General Motors vehicles and allows a customer to contact an OnStar representative in an emergency or to get directions.

If there is no response, OnStar contacts police.

That's what happened with Gomez on Friday night, Tom Clements, a spokesman for the St. Augustine Police Department, said Wednesday.

When police located Gomez' car, they determined there was no problem. But Clements said cocaine was clearly visible on the car's center console.

In addition to seizing $1,900 in the case, the Cadillac equipped with the OnStar system was also seized, Clements said.

There was no information available from Clements or the jail on whether Gomez has a lawyer.source

thats gotta be bad luck :/

yep --just wait until all cars have to have onstar and a built in drug sniffer ! the computer will rat you out to the police !

it will probably automatic charge to your CC or bank card for speeding or running a red-light!

a built in snitch ! auto tax and toll collector! prob owned by daubi corp !!--LOL

big oops...

That is stupid as hell, a church is not a public school nor is it a public area, so why is there a law for the church?

Kind of funny though, karma bit him in the arse.

I agree completely. Why should churches get treated so special?

That's a bit of bad luck...

OnStar is evil

Serves him right for showing off.