A Miami doctor now faces professional consequences for his criminal actions.
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Violating a restraining order by showing up at his ex-wife’s job and trying to force her into his Camaro got a Miami doctor suspended by the state surgeon general last week.
That’s the first official professional consequence for Dr. Alfonso Ramirez after the 67-year-old Northwest Miami-Dade resident pleaded guilty in April 2025 to attempted kidnapping; felony battery (domestic strangulation); tampering with a witness or victim, a felony; misdemeanor battery; and violating a domestic violence restraining order.
Ramirez was sentenced to four years’ probation on each of the felony charges and a year probation on each of the misdemeanors, all probation clocks running concurrently. He’s scheduled to be on probation until April 25, 2029, but is eligible to have that end after two years if there’s no violation of probation.
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Professionally, Ramirez has been licensed in Florida since 2001 with one previous discipline blemish. In 2007, he was fined $10,000, charged $9,586 in case costs, ordered to do 100 hours of community service, assigned three continuing education courses, and put on probation for a year after he mishandled the care of an HIV-positive patient.
Dr. Alfonso Ramirez Florida Dept. of Corrections Domestic violence in a public parking lot
An arrest report from Miramar police officer Brandyn Dean says a domestic battery call directed him to the 3541 Enterprise Way office building parking lot around 8:15 p.m. Nov. 17, 2023. Dean said he found a woman “sitting on the sidewalk curb, crying and frantically breathing.”
The woman told Dean that she had a restraining order against her ex-husband, Ramirez. But when she went to her car after her workday, there was Ramirez, in violation of the order. The five-foot-three, 160-pound Ramirez grabbed her from behind, kept her from getting in her car and tried to muscle her toward his muscle car, a white Camaro.
Her furious attempts to extricate herself from Ramirez ended with her smacking her head on the parking lot asphalt and Ramirez hitting her in the right eye, according to the arrest report. When she managed to dial 911, Ramirez zoomed off in his Camaro.
As Ramirez’s ex-wife talked to police, Ramirez called her. Officers took the opportunity to talk to Ramirez.
Ramirez “stated he did attempt to force (her) into his vehicle, but did not strike her,” the arrest report said. “Officers asked (him) to return to the scene, so we could understand his story better, but he refused.”
The writ ordering Ramirez’s arrest was issued on March 11, 2024. He was arrested on May 31, 2024.
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