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EX-CON WHO ALLEGEDLY ATTACKED AUTISTIC NYC STOP & SHOP WORKER, 20, RELEASED
WITHOUT BAIL: ‘INNOCENT PEOPLE SUFFER’

By Katherine Donlevy and Joe Marino

Published May 18, 2024
Updated May 18, 2024, 8:43 p.m. ET

The ex-con who allegedly attacked a 20-year-old worker with autism in a Queens
Stop & Shop parking lot was cut loose without bail Saturday — enraging the
victim’s family.

Alvin Martinez, 62, was granted non-monetary release despite the Queens District
Attorney’s pleas to set bail against the alleged attacker.

Alvin Martinez, 62, was sprung free without bail. Obtained by NY Post

“Another example of our revolving door justice system working on behalf of the
violent offenders while innocent people suffer,” a family member of the victim,
who has not been publicly identified, told The Post.

Martinez allegedly targeted the disabled worker outside the Rockaway Park store
Thursday — marking the second time in just six months the employee was roughed
up by a violent stranger.

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Martinez — who has a rap sheet dating back to 1982 — was arraigned on one count
of felony robbery, and various counts of assault, menacing and criminal
possession of stolen property, all misdemeanors. He also faces a violation for
harassment.

Martinez — who has a rap sheet dating back to 1982 — was arraigned on various
counts of attempted robbery, assault, menacing, harassment and criminal
possession of stolen property.

The ex-con allegedly attacked a 20-year-old autistic worker at the Queens Stop &
Shop. Paul Martinka

Judge Germaine August — a former legal aid attorney for almost 30 years —
released the career criminal with only an order of protection standing between
him and his alleged victim.

“The judge is going against the request of the DA’s Office and against the legal
desire of the victims,” the employee’s family fumed.

The Queens DA did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.

Martinez allegedly pounced on the worker as he was putting away shopping carts —
with witnesses saying he ripped the man’s headphones out and smacked him around
with his own hat.

“He’s blocking the kid, shoving him, he won’t let him pass. He’s screaming and
cursing at this kid,” Thomas Willis, who was in the lot campaigning for state
Assembly candidate Tom Sullivan, recalled to The Post.

The scuffle lasted around 40 seconds until the young worker managed to escape,
but Martinez allegedly tried to put up a fight when cops arrived at the scene.

“Once the authorities were there, [Martinez] decided to run for it, which is a
stupid thing to do. Then the police chased him in the parking lot and got him,”
fellow Sullivan campaigner Rosat Ramgopal said.

Last December, the same disabled store worker made headlines when he was beaten
and punched by a shoplifter who had run out of the store and cornered him in the
parking lot. A store butcher saw what was happening and intervened, saving the
young man.

The brave employee returned to the job, only to be faced with another alleged
wacko, who witnesses said was hanging around the lot for at least an hour before
the attack.

Martinez was allegedly shouting about “cage fighting and beating people” as he
used screwdrivers and a broomstick to break into his beat-up car, which he
claimed he could not unlock.

“The guy was obviously not well, and I wouldn’t like him to be in a parking lot
where families are just going about their business. It’s not a particularly safe
environment,” Ramgopal said.

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Records show that Martinez had a lengthy list of priors over the last decade,
but had not been arrested since 2006.

His rap sheet includes priors for criminal possession of stolen property,
criminal possession of controlled substance, petit larceny and grand larceny.

Martinez is due back in court July 3.

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