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COURIER LIFE, D 14 ECEMBER 10-16, 2021
Lookout in 2011
murder of cafe
owner sentenced
BY BEN VERDE
A man who acted as
an accomplice to a 2011
murder in Ditmas Park
will spend 18 years in
prison, after a federal
judge sentenced the 27-
year-old on Dec. 6.
Judge Jed Rakoff
handed down the 216-
month punishment to
Michael Mazur for acting
as the lookout during
the murder of Joshua Rubin
on Oct. 31, 2011 — a
case that remained cold
for years, and shocked
the neighborhood where
the victim was a widley
known as a beloved
small business owner.
Mazur had pled guilty
to one count of Hobbs Act
robbery, which implicated
him in the murder.
According to prosecutors,
the Halloweennight
mayhem began
when Mazur, along with
defendants Gary Robles
and Kevin Taylor, plotted
to rob Rubin of a pound
of marijuana, which he
had been selling to help
pay for his business, the
Whisk Bakery Cafe on
Newkirk Avenue.
The trio led Rubin to
an apartment under the
guise of purchasing weed,
Joshua Rubin. File photo
but, once he arrived, Taylor
and Robles brandished
a fi rearm and demanded
the victim hand over the
drugs. When he refused,
the pair shot Rubin —
while Mazur waited as a
getaway driver, according
to investigators.
The defendants then
drove out to rural Pennsylvania
with Rubin’s body,
where they dumped him
in a garbage can and set
him on fi re. Rubin’s body
was so disfi gured that he
was not identifi ed until
December of that year.
The case shocked
Brooklyn and remained
cold for years, until federal
agents arrested the
three suspects in 2020.
Both Taylor and Robles
are awaiting sentencing
in this case.
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