Brooklyn Pimp Guilty Of 2011 Ridgewood Murder: DA

QUEENS — A Brooklyn pimp was convicted of murder in a 2011 beating death in Ridgewood, prosecutors said.

Jurors found Gerald Griffin, 46, guilty of beating Peter Polizzi with a baseball bat inside a Clover Place apartment Sept. 14, 2011, leading to the 31-year-old's death a few days later, said Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz.

“This cold-blooded killer thought he could get away with murder, but the NYPD tracked him down and we made sure he will go to jail for a long time," Katz said in a statement.

Polizzi was found naked and bludgeoned in his Ridgewood home in 2011, but the case went cold for years, authorities said.

Cold case investigators later zeroed in on Griffin.

Authorities believe Griffin, a woman who worked for him as a sex worker, and another man entered Polizzi's apartment. Griffin attacked Polizzi with a baseball bat and then the other man beat him, Katz said.

The men ransacked the apartment and stole two cell phones, money, a watch with a diamond-encrusted face, and a box containing a white powdery substance, the district attorney said.

Two men were seen leaving the apartment in 2011, prosecutors said.

In 2017, the woman who worked for Griffin identified him in a photograph as the attacker, Katz said. Officers found more evidence in Griffin’s Facebook account, where he posted a photo of him with the stolen watch, the district attorney said.

Griffin was indicted in 2018, and he is expected to be sentenced on June 15, prosecutors said.

He faces up to 25 years in prison.