AUGUST 14, 1999

BROOKLYN MAN SENTENCED IN ROBBERY AND HOMICIDE OF OZONE PARK BUSINESS MAN: MURDERER WALKED AWAY WITH $60

Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown announced today the sentencing of a man August 12th on two counts of murder in the second degree charges in connection with the June 25th, 1994 robbery and murder of Marvin Zaretsky.

District Attorney Brown said that the defendant, Alan Ramirez, 24, of 271 Nicholls Avenue, Brooklyn was convicted of robbing and murdering Marvin Zaretsky as he parked his car outside an Ozone Park convenience store on his way home from the Brooklyn carwash business he owned. Justice Randall Eng sentenced the defendant to 25 years to life, the maximum sentence, consecutive to an 8 to 25 year sentence the defendant is serving for the earlier manslaughter.

District Attorney Brown said, "This defendant followed his victim from his place of business until he saw an opportunity to waylay, rob and murder him. He has shown himself to be a vicious career criminal and deserves to be in prison the rest of his life."

According to testimony at the trial, the defendant, who was to start serving his sentence for manslaughter in a Brooklyn case in five days, murdered Mr. Zaretsky while attempting to steal the money he believed him to be carrying. In seeking the maximum penalty, Assistant District Attorney Eugene Reibstein pointed out the terrible loss that Mr. Zaretsky's family had sustained.

Assistant District Attorney Eugene P. Reibstein of District Attorney Brown's Coordinator of Trials of the Major Crimes Division, which is under the supervision of Executive Assistant District Attorney for Major Crimes Gregory L. Lasak, was in charge of the prosecution.

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