One year of probation, twenty-four hours of community restitution, two hundred and eighty dollars of restitution, which is the service fee, which is a number I had put into a spreadsheet in September.

He wrote me a letter in the July, four pages, and the first two and a half pages are about his shop.

Ramirez Auto on Fifty-Ninth Avenue closed on the fourteenth of November 2025 after nineteen years, and the reason it closed is not the loans and it is not the conviction in the way people assume.

He had two fleet contracts left — a landscaping company and a plumbing outfit — and both of them required their vendors to carry a garage keepers’ policy, and his carrier non-renewed him in the September because a principal of the business had a theft-related conviction.

Not a felony.