Man who went after cherished 90-year-old East Town candy storekeeper captured: police

An ex-con portrayed as “powerful insane” has been caught for a terrible beatdown of a darling, 90-year-old East Town candy storekeeper, police said Saturday.

Luis Perozo, 39, was accused of attack after he was snatched up by cops late Friday, NYPD authorities said.
Perozo was needed for going after Beam Alvarez, who has possessed Beam’s Sweets Store on Road A starting around 1974. Alvarez was left with a bruised eye and an intense injury under his left ear following the early-Tuesday assault.

Investigators enlightened Alvarez concerning the capture late Friday, said Gabe Thorne, who works at the shop and was likewise a casualty in the 3 a.m. attack.

A lady named Stella, who guarantees she’s Alvarez’s significant other, said he was glad to catch wind of the bust and is recuperating.

“He’s greatly improved,” she said. “He wants rest.”

“The previous evening was a party here,” Thorne, 44, told the Everyday News Saturday. “We’re exceptionally feeling better… incredibly feeling better that everybody’s taken care of their business and we will continue to go about our responsibilities and this person stays where he should be.”

Alvarez was resting at home Saturday, however was “doing perfect,” Thorne said. “He is very hopeful.”
Perozo lives close to the treats store. Wearing a dark weave cap, a blue coat and dark workout pants with red stripes running at the edge, Perozo denied going after Alvarez as he was accompanied out of the ninth Region stationhouse in binds Saturday.

“No!” he said when inquired as to whether he perpetrated the wrongdoing.

Delegate Investigator Ralph Forgiving, the chief of the ninth Region, reported the capture on Twitter.

“We informed Beam that we recognized and caught the culprit answerable for this terrible wrongdoing,” Merciful posted “Exceptional thanks to Warrants Segment, ninth Analyst Crew, and Keen Division.”
Perozo and a subsequent man moved toward Alvarez close to E. seventh St. needing to sell him some La Croix seltzer, police and witnesses said. At the point when the old dealer declined, the suspect took steps to kill him and whipped the nonagenarian in the face with a belt that had a stone joined to the clasp.

One of the two men additionally punched Thorne as he attempted to mediate, Alvarez told The News.

“One of them hit [my employee] in the chest and the other person said, ‘Hold this, I need to kill this charlatan,'” reviewed Alvarez. “He took something that seemed to be a belt with a stone on it and he swung and hit me in the head. I tumbled down on the floor outside — I was endlessly dying.”
Perozo ran off, however was gotten on reconnaissance cameras two traffic lights away pushing a purple shopping basket loaded up with things, cops said.

The attacker sidestepped experts for three days, yet Alvarez was once again at his store in only a couple a couple of hours.
The first page of the New York Everyday News on Feb. 3, 2023. (New York Everyday News)
“I was stirred up downright horrendous, yet I returned,” he said. “I had a frozen yogurt conveyance and I had a great deal of activities.”
Thorne expressed one of the assailants asked Alvarez, “Do you have faith in Satan?” just before the beating.

“Beam didn’t actually have a clue,” Thorne said. “Furthermore, the person was very unusual… It was powerful insane.”

When the observation photographs of Perozo were delivered Thursday, individuals in the area began remembering him, Thorne said, guessing that the attacker might be deranged.

“He’s been surrounding,” he said. “There’s simply a ton of emotional well-being [issues] and a ton of terrible goals for other people. When something like this occurs, you need to lament and perceive this is our existence.”

Perozo has a broad criminal history tracing all the way back to the mid 2000s, yet the vast majority of his captures were for criminal wickedness and unimportant robbery, police sources said. He served five years in jail after he was sentenced for an attack in the Bronx in 2003 and was paroled in 2008, as per court records. After four years his parole finished.

Before he was captured for beating Alvarez, he was busted on criminal naughtiness and negligible burglary charges in August 2021, cops said.