The man convicted of murder for driving the getaway car in the 2016 shooting of an Anchor Bar employee was sentenced to more than eight years in prison on federal drug and domestic violence charges.
Gregory Ramos, 29, of Buffalo, is serving time for his role in the shooting death of Freddie Dizon and for strangling a former girlfriend.
U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo sentenced Ramos to serve 101 months in prison, which is to run consecutively with the sentence of 20 years to life that he received on the murder charges.
Ramos was convicted of possessing with intent to distribute cocaine, possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime and possessing a firearm by a person subject to a domestic violence order of protection, according to U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy Jr.
On May 23, 2016, three days after Dizon's murder, Niagara Falls Police officers spotted Ramos' car on Pine Avenue and tried to stop it. As officers approached, Ramos sped away.
A high-speed chase ensued during which Ramos threw bags of cocaine and a gun from his car window, prosecutors said. The cocaine struck the windshield of the officers’ car on Hyde Park Avenue, while the gun struck and shattered the rear window of another driver’s vehicle.
The chase continued onto Grand Island, where Ramos abandoned his vehicle on Stony Point Road. He fled into a wooded area, and was taken into custody a short time later.
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Barbara O'Brien
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I grew up in Rochester, graduated from St. Bonaventure University and worked in radio before joining The Buffalo News. I report on issues in local communities. Over the years I have covered stories in every town in Erie County.
