You snooze, you lose - especially if you're in a car blocking traffic on Gallivan Boulevard with a loaded gun on your lap, police say

Boston Police report they caught a man with a loaded gun red handed - and fast asleep - outside the East Boston Savings Bank branch on Gallivan Boulevard in Dorchester on Tuesday.

Police say officers on patrol responded to the bank branch at 489 Gallivan Blvd. around 9:30 p.m. after being flagged down by somebody forced to slow because of a car parked on the roadway - who noticed that "the driver of the motor vehicle appeared to be asleep with a gun on his lap."

Officers activated their lights and sirens, exited their cruiser and when they approached the vehicle, they observed the driver, later identified as, Khari Wilcox, 24, of Brockton, to be asleep. Officers observed the firearm on Wilcox’s lap and as they attempted to awake him, he became non-compliant. After a brief struggle he was safely placed under arrest.

The gun was "a Beretta PX4 Storm with one round in the chamber and thirteen rounds in the magazine," police say, adding they also found Wilcox had a plastic bag of crack, another bag of Xanax pills, a third bag with as yet unknown pills and $2,718 in bills.

Wilcox was charged with unlawful possession of a firearm, unlawful possession of ammunition, possession of Class B and Class E drugs and resisting arrest, police say.

Innocent, etc.