Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., announced the sentencing of JOHN MARTINEZ, 40, to 18 years-to-life in prison for using an ice pick or knife to rob three women as they entered their homes in and around Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village on the East Side of Manhattan, and for attempting to do the same to a fourth woman. On November 10, 2011, MARTINEZ pled guilty to Burglary in the Second Degree and Attempted Robbery in the First Degree.