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Kevin Perez’s neighbors successful Miami-Dade County said they unrecorded with the fearfulness that the convicted Peeping Tom volition interruption into their backyards and masturbate portion spying connected them.
Perez is simply a repetition offender. Despite his transgression grounds and convictions, his parent and sister defended him connected Thursday successful the quiescent southwestern Miami-Dade Kendale Lakes neighborhood.
“My lad is not a criminal,” Teresa Sanchez, his mother, said successful Spanish.
Neighbors said the SWAT squad descended connected The Woodgate Community to apprehension Perez. Records amusement corrections booked him connected Wednesday astatine the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.
“Me increasing up here, helium has been present the full time, truthful it is benignant of uncomfortable,” said Leonardo Del Rio, a Woodgate Community resident.
Miami-Dade corrections held Perez without enslaved Thursday connected 2 probation warrant cases. His apprehension grounds successful Miami-Dade goes backmost to much than a decade.
Last year, Miami-Dade deputies arrested Perez connected June 22 for artillery connected an aged unfortunate and connected Sept. 26 for transgression mischief.
In 2020, Miami-Dade deputies arrested Perez for voyeurism, indecent exposure, and burglary of an occupied dwelling. Records amusement a justice ordered him to enactment distant from a woman.
Perez was successful the woman’s backyard erstwhile helium “sat successful a seat that faces the room rear sliding doorway ... exposed his intersexual organ and began to masturbate portion watching the victim,” a lawman wrote successful his report.
The pistillate reported that erstwhile she saw Perez connected March 5, 2020, she knocked connected the solid and yelled astatine him, and helium stopped and fled, according to the apprehension report.
On Aug. 10, 2020, deputies reported responding to the aforesaid vicinity aft Perez broke into a backyard “and began masturbating portion watching the unfortunate done the window” and fled. Deputies arrested him 8 days later.
In 2017, Miami-Dade deputies arrested him twice. Once for artillery and the different for voyeurism and burglary of an occupied dwelling, records show. A justice ordered him to enactment distant from the voyeurism victim.
Miami-Dade deputies arrested him connected 2 counts of expansive theft of a centrifugal conveyance and transgression mischief successful 2014, and for artillery successful 2013.
In 2009, Miami-Dade deputies arrested him for marijuana possession and Miami Beach constabulary officers for disorderly intoxication and transgression mischief.
Miami-Dade tribunal records amusement astir cases were dropped, but determination were 3 convictions aft arrests successful 2014, 2017, and 2020.
For the lawsuit successful 2014, Perez was connected probation until Sept. 28, 2016. For the lawsuit successful 2017, a justice gave him recognition for clip served and the lawsuit closed successful 2018.
For the lawsuit successful 2020, a justice issued a divided condemnation of incarceration followed by probation until March 11, 2031.
Perez besides has a grounds of violating his probation. Records amusement determination were 2 method violations successful 2016 and 3 past year.
Court records amusement determination were violations of probation affidavits filed connected April 25, 2024, and connected April 28. In the astir recent, a probation serviceman reported Perez wasn’t location erstwhile helium was expected to beryllium and failed to study 3 times successful April.
Perez “stated helium went with his parent to Cricket to person his compartment telephone repaired and didn’t deliberation it was wrong,” the probation serviceman wrote and reported Perez was unemployed, and did not person enactment offender and substance maltreatment attraction successful March.
The probation serviceman besides recommended that Perez beryllium resentenced for his crimes.
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