Doctor, awaiting trial for selling oxycodone, found dead at home

MONROE – A Monroe psychiatrist,
who was awaiting federal trial on charges that he sold medically unnecessary
prescriptions of over 10,000 oxycodone tables over a four-year period,
resulting in at least one death, was found dead in his Monroe home on
Monday.
The White Plains Federal Pre-Trial Office called Monroe State Police
asking them to check on the welfare of Alfred Ramirez, 78. Police found
him dead. Police said no foul plan is suspected. The investigation is
ongoing and a final determination into the cause of death is pending an
autopsy and toxicology report.
Ramirez had been confined to his home at Pinehurst Ridge in Monroe where he wore a GPS location device. The federals wanted to check his welfare after the device stopped sending information.
Starting around 2012 and continuing until his arrest one year ago, operated offices in Orange and Dutchess counties, where as a Board certified doctor and state licensed psychiatrist, wrote medically unnecessary prescriptions for more than 10,000 Oxycodone pills in exchange for cash.