“We pulled up to the convenience store and jumped out,” said Ramsey as she explains the fateful sequence of events that afternoon that would change her life forever. “The street dealer is the one who is stealing your car, breaking into your house,” said Ramsey, “they’ll take over an elder persons’ house and hold them hostage in their bedroom and use the rest of their house for their dope-dealing.”Īfter hearing “Bingo, Bingo,” Ramsey and her team swarmed the location where the drug deal occurred only to see the suspect flee on foot from the location and sprint into a nearby convenience store. Known as SAU (street approach unit) their mission is to take down local street dealers and clean the community of Fort Worth of illicit narcotics.
It was January 2, 2003, and Officer Lisa Ramsey and her four-member undercover narcotics team had already been crisscrossing the city earlier that day, making street buys of illegal drugs before arresting drug dealers and shutting down their operations. A four-member narcotics unit from the Fort Worth Police Department who were idling in their vehicles nearby could now move in and arrest the drug dealer. The codeword was repeated over the radio by an undercover police officer, indicating a successful drug buy had happened.
