Riverhead Man Convicted of Murdering Woman

By Timothy Bolger Posted on May 30, 2014

A Riverhead man has been convicted of raping and killing a 29-year-old woman he met in a bar on Cinco de Mayo two years ago.

A Suffolk County jury found Guillermo Alfonso Alvarado-Ajcuc guilty Friday of two counts of second-degree murder—one for intentionally killing the victim, the other for killing her while committing a felony.

Prosecutors said the 23-year-old landscaper from Guatemala fatally strangled Mirian Yohana Garcia and left her nude body in a wooded area near the bar on Old Country Road in Flanders in May 2012.

Alvarado-Ajcuc faces up to 25 years to life in prison when he is sentenced July 9.

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Timothy Bolger

Timothy Bolger is the Editor in Chief of the Long Island Press who’s been working to uncover unreported stories since shortly after it launched in 2003. When he’s not editing, getting hassled by The Man or fielding cold calls to the newsroom, he covers crime, general interest and political news in addition to reporting longer, sometimes investigative features. He won’t be happy until everyone is as pissed off as he is about how screwed up Lawn Guyland is.