A former Miami Heat security worker has been charged in a massive memorabilia theft that involved millions of dollars' worth of game-used jerseys and other…
Marcos Thomas Perez, 62, is charged with transporting and transferring stolen goods in interstate commerce, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida said Tuesday.Marcos Thomas Perez, 62, is charged with transporting and transferring stolen goods in interstate commerce following an FBI investigation, the U.
S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida said Tuesday.Perez, a retired 25-year veteran of the Miami Police Department, is accused of stealing jerseys and other memorabilia and selling the items to online brokers, authorities said. Perez worked for the Heat from 2016 to 2021, and also worked as an NBA security employee from 2022 to 2025.During that time, Perez accessed a secured equipment room at Kaseya Center multiple times, stealing over 400 game-worn jerseys and other items, authorities said.Over a three-year period, Perez sold over 100 stolen items for about $2 million, often selling them at prices well below market value, authorities said. In one case, he sold a game-worn LeBron James Miami Heat NBA Finals jersey for approximately $100,000, and the same jersey laterLeBron James game-worn jersey from the athletes NBA finals game 7 victory over the Miami Heat in 2013, is on display during a press preview at Sotheby's auction House on January 20, 2023, in New York City. On April 3, law enforcement executed a search warrant at Perez’s home and seized nearly 300 additional stolen game-worn jerseys and memorabilia, which the Heat confirmed had been stolen from their facility, prosecutors said.first reported by NBA insider Amin Elhassan "As it was described to me, this is one of the largest, if not the largest, memorabilia heist in the history of this country. In any sport," Elhassan said on the podcast.
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