Glen Cove man gets 20 years to life in Central Islip kidnapping murder

Christopher Perdomo, a 29-year-old Glen Cove man, was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years to life in prison for his role in the kidnapping and murder of Linver Ortiz Ponce, a 29-year-old Central Islip man whose death began with a parking dispute in Bay Shore and ended in a church parking lot.

Suffolk County prosecutors said the case began late on Sept. 16, 2022, after Ortiz Ponce parked in front of Kayla Alvarenga’s home on Fifth Avenue in Bay Shore. Prosecutors said Alvarenga directed Perdomo and others to abduct and kill Ortiz Ponce, and that the group used a stolen BMW that had been taken in a carjacking hours earlier. Surveillance video from a gas station helped capture part of the abduction and flight, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office.

Investigators said the group dragged Ortiz Ponce from his vehicle, beat him and stole his Camaro. Prosecutors said he was later abducted again and taken to a church parking lot, where Perdomo shot him multiple times as he tried to crawl away. The Camaro was later abandoned in Smithtown, and the BMW was dumped in Brentwood. Prosecutors said money from Ortiz Ponce’s wallet was divided among the group before they returned to Alvarenga’s home by rideshare.

Perdomo pleaded guilty on Sept. 12, 2025, to murder, kidnapping, robbery and criminal possession of a weapon. Suffolk prosecutors said he was apprehended in Georgia in May 2024, giving the case an interstate reach that extended well beyond Suffolk County. The District Attorney’s Office said the prosecution involved seven co-defendants, including five adolescent offenders, and reflected a long investigation that brought together law enforcement from multiple states.

Alvarenga was sentenced on April 28, 2026, to life in prison without the possibility of parole after a jury trial. Perdomo’s sentence closes another major chapter in the case, but the violence that began in Central Islip and spilled across Bay Shore, Smithtown, Brentwood and Georgia left a lasting mark on Ortiz Ponce’s family and the Suffolk communities tied to the investigation. Prosecutors under District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney have framed the case as one of the county’s major violent-crime prosecutions, and the prison term now gives it a severe legal ending, even as the damage from the killing remains.