OAKLAND — After pleading guilty to drug dealing, an Antioch man avoided jail time for his involvement in an illicit scheme to acquire opiate pills by trading cocaine to a popular dentist who wrote phony prescriptions, court records show.
Ramon Ramos, 35, was lauded by both prosecutors and his attorney for completing a rehabilitation program and turning his life around. He was sentenced to one year of supervised release and no jail time. Prosecutors said his “transformation” and work in sober-living facilities helped influence their recommendation for no jail, and the defense wrote in court filings that he was heavily using drugs at the time of the offense.
“(Ramos) confirmed that his drug use was a big component of what influenced him to commit the offense, stating ‘I was not thinking straight, and my head was not fully there,’” his lawyers wrote in court filings.
Ramos was charged in 2021 with trading cocaine to Alireza Moheb, a popular East Bay dentist who coached Ramos and their co-defendant, Kevin Ramirez, on how to avoid scrutiny from pharmacies, according to federal prosecutors. Moheb also avoided prison and wrote a lengthy apology letter taking responsibility for his actions.
The case against Ramirez is still active, records show.
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