Ex-Miami Warmth Safety Officer Charged With Promoting $2M in Stolen Jerseys

A former Miami Warmth safety officer accused of promoting stolen jerseys and different memorabilia value thousands and thousands of {dollars} made his preliminary look in federal court docket on Tuesday.

Marcos Thomas Perez, 62, of Miami, was charged with transporting and transferring stolen items in interstate commerce.

A joint announcement from the Southern District of Florida and the Miami FBI stated legislation enforcement executed a search warrant at Perez’s residence on April 3 and seized about 300 stolen game-worn jerseys and different priceless memorabilia. The Warmth confirmed the objects had been stolen from their facility.

The charging doc stated Perez bought the objects to on-line brokers. Over a three-year interval, authorities say Perez bought greater than 100 stolen objects for about $2 million and shipped them throughout state strains, typically at discount costs. They are saying Perez bought a Miami Warmth jersey worn by LeBron James through the NBA Finals for about $100,000. That very same jersey later bought at a Sotheby’s public sale for $3.7 million.

Perez, a 25-year retired veteran of the Miami Police Division, labored for the Warmth from 2016 to 2021 and as an NBA safety worker from 2022 to 2025.

Perez labored on the game-day safety element on the Kaseya Heart. He was amongst just some workers with entry to a secured gear room that saved memorabilia the group supposed to show in a future staff museum. The paperwork say Perez accessed the gear room to steal, in all, greater than 400 game-worn jerseys and different objects.

Reporting by The Related Press.

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