Initially, investigators at the Queens district attorney’s office charged him as Carl Avinger. The investigation into the prisoner’s past that followed produced a lengthy list of names in a storied criminal career spanning nearly three decades, The New York Times reports. When he was in prison at Queensboro Correctional Facility in February 2002, he met Dwayne Avinger, Carl Avinger’s older half brother. Thus, the man became Carl Avinger. Between 2011 and 2022, he was arrested fifteen times for crimes ranging from drunk driving to intimidating a witness.