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Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputy’s report on Stephon L. Perry’s arrest <\/p>\nMIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A 21-year-old man told deputies that a police officer\u2019s Miami Police Department-issued white RAM 1500 was unlocked with guns, a gold bracelet, external hard drives, and a backpack in Miami-Dade County, according to a deputy\u2019s report.<\/p>\n
Stephon L. Perry confessed to burglarizing the police officer\u2019s assigned unmarked pickup truck before sunrise on July 22 in the West Little River neighborhood, according to the Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office deputy\u2019s arrest report. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe victim\u2019s vehicle had been unlocked, allowing him to gain entry without force,\u201d Perry told the deputies, according to the arrest report. <\/p>\n
The police officer told deputies that two guns \u2014 a \u201cpersonally-owned Glock 48 handgun\u201d and his police department-issued \u201cGlock 17 handgun\u201d \u2014 had been stolen, according to the report. <\/p>\n
\u201cA personally-owned 10-karat gold Cuban link bracelet, valued at approximately $3,000 … had also been stolen from the front center console cup holder,\u201d a deputy wrote, according to the report. <\/p>\n
Three shield external T7 hard drives vanished, including two from the FBI and one from the MPD, according to the deputy\u2019s report. <\/p>\n
Detectives used surveillance videos to track Perry, who was wearing a \u201cdistinctive afro hairstyle,\u201d a dark-colored jacket, and blue shorts, to a house in Miami\u2019s Liberty City neighborhood, according to the report. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhile searching the kitchen area, I located a white styrofoam food container concealed inside the storage compartment beneath the oven,\u201d a deputy wrote, adding that the container had the officer\u2019s Glock and a Springfield Armory 9mm Hellcat, which had been reported stolen in another case. <\/p>\n
After a pursuit that included a perimeter, Perry returned to his home in Liberty City, and a deputy arrested him shortly before 7:50 p.m. on Tuesday, near Northwest Eighth Avenue and 70th Street, according to the deputy\u2019s report. <\/p>\n
Detectives questioned Perry at the nearby Northside District Station, and he confessed to throwing away the backpack and the hard drives in a dumpster in Liberty City, and selling the bracelet and the MPD-issued Glock 17, according to the report. <\/p>\n
A detective reported using a database to track the police officer\u2019s stolen bracelet to the King Cash Pawn & Jewelry in West Little River, according to the report.<\/p>\n
Miami-Dade corrections booked Perry shortly before 5:15 a.m. on Wednesday at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, according to inmate records. <\/p>\n
Perry, who had been arrested for burglary twice earlier this year in Miami-Dade, faced nine charges in two new cases filed by prosecutors on Wednesday, according to Miami-Dade court records. <\/p>\n
For the police vehicle burglary, Perry faced eight charges: Armed burglary, burglary of an unoccupied conveyance, two counts of third-degree grand theft of a firearm, two counts of dealing in stolen property, third-degree grand theft while armed, and resisting arrest without violence. <\/p>\n
For the stolen Springfield Armory Hellcat, Perry faced an additional charge of third-degree grand theft of a firearm, according to court records. <\/p>\n
A judge denied him bond on the armed burglary charge. Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Richard Hersch was set to preside over both cases. <\/p>\n
Read the arrest report\u2019s narrative:<\/p>\n
Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputy’s report on Stephon L. Perry’s arrest <\/p>\n
Local 10 News Assignment Editor Mercedes Cevallos contributed to this report. <\/p>\n
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