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Maximum Sentence for Hampton Bays Man in 2020 Murder and Robbery

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Alcides Lopez Cambara, the Hampton Bays man convicted last month in the murder and robbery of Sag Harbor resident Marco Grisales was given the maximum sentence – 25 years to life in prison. COURTESY SUFFOLK COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY

Alcides Lopez Cambara, the Hampton Bays man convicted last month in the murder and robbery of Sag Harbor resident Marco Grisales was given the maximum sentence – 25 years to life in prison. COURTESY SUFFOLK COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY

Kitty Merrill on Jan 23, 2023

Alcides Lopez Cambara, the Hampton Bays man convicted last month in the murder and robbery of Sag Harbor resident Marco Grisales, was given the maximum sentence — 25 years to life in prison, Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney announced on Monday, January 23.

“This was a violent and premeditated murder and robbery. We are gratified that the judge imposed the requested maximum sentence and hope the victim’s loved ones find some solace in the sentence,” Tierney said in a release lauding the sentence.

In November of 2020, Lopez Cambara, then 40, and his girlfriend Tyara Lemus, then aged 18, conceived a scheme to rob Grisales, devising a plan to have Lemus lure Grisales to a secluded spot in Riverhead and rob him. Once they, and two cohorts, got their victim to a secluded spot — a buffalo farm — Lopez Cambara and the unidentified male dragged Grisales out of the car and bludgeoned him to death with the barrel of a shotgun. One of the cohorts, Hernandez Abanao, and Lemus stole jewelry and other valuables from the victim’s car. Before the three men put the victim’s lifeless body into the bed of the pickup truck, Lopez Cambara tore a gold chain from his neck. Officials have not identified the third man.

They drove the victim’s pickup truck, with his body in the back, and parked it on Roanoke Avenue.

Lemus turned her boyfriend and one of the assailants in, then detailed the crime during the trial. On December 9, 2020, Lemus and Lopez Cambara were arrested and charged with the murder and robbery of Grisales. Lemus pleaded guilty to robbery in the first degree for her role in the crime. Abanao pleaded guilty to attempted murder in the second degree. Sentences for both are pending.

On December 13, 2022, Lopez Cambara was convicted of second degree murder and first degree robbery after a jury trial heard before Supreme Court Justice Anthony S. Senft, Jr. The maximum sentences includes an additional five years of post-release supervision.

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