NEW YORK (1010 WINS) – A Long Island man was sentenced to 25-years-to-life in prison for murdering his girlfriend in her Mineola penthouse apartment in 2022 because she was planning to leave him and move to Florida, prosecutors said Friday.
Mark Small, 57, was handed the sentence Thursday after being convicted by a jury in September of second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon in connection with the killing of Marivel Estevez, 39.
“Rather than letting her leave New York to start a new job in a new state, this defendant decided that if he couldn’t have her, no one could,” said Nassau County D.A. Anne Donnelly in a statement…