{"id":396149,"date":"2026-09-10T19:56:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T19:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/396149\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T19:56:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T19:56:17","slug":"fbi-offers-50k-reward-for-most-wanted-fugitive-in-1m-jewelry-heist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/396149\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Offers $50K Reward for \u2018Most Wanted\u2019 Fugitive in $1M Jewelry Heist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  Fort Myers, Fla.\u2014The FBI is now offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of a man charged in a violent Florida jewelry store robbery. <\/p>\n<p>Alberto Perez-Elias is one of four men charged with breaking into Tio Jewelers in Cape Coral, Florida, on Jan. 6.<\/p>\n<p>Perez-Elias and another man entered the jewelry store by breaking through the wall of a vacant business next door.<\/p>\n<p>The two men held the manager at gunpoint and gained access to the safe, taking off with jewelry worth more than $1 million, the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office said.<\/p>\n<p>All four of the men fled to Miami after the robbery, said officials, and three were later arrested. <\/p>\n<p>Perez-Elias remains at large and has been <a href=\"https:\/\/nationaljeweler.com\/articles\/15130-man-charged-in-1m-jewelry-store-heist-lands-on-fbi-most-wanted-list\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">placed on the FBI\u2019s Most Wanted List<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>He is in his mid-50s and is described as 5 feet 6 inches tall and 150 pounds. He was born in Cuba and has ties to Hialeah and Miami, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>He faces federal charges of conspiracy to interfere with commerce by robbery, interference with commerce by robbery, and use of a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence.<\/p>\n<p>If convicted, Perez-Elias could serve up to 20 years in federal prison, as well as a seven-year consecutive sentence for the gun charge.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI said Perez-Elias is believed to be armed and dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about the case is asked to contact their local FBI office, the nearest American embassy or consulate, or submit their tip on the FBI <a href=\"https:\/\/tips.fbi.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Related stories will be right here \u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fort Myers, Fla.\u2014The FBI is now offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[157995,157994,209,211,210,105329,157989,157990,157996,157991,157992,157993],"class_list":["post-396149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-alberto-perez-elias-fbi-most-wanted","tag-armed-robbery-of-jewelry-store-cape-coral-florida","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-fbi-most-wanted-list","tag-fbi-reward-alberto-perez-elias","tag-fbi-reward-cape-coral-jewelry-store-robbery","tag-jewelry-crime","tag-jewelry-criminals-on-fbi-most-wanted-list","tag-jewelry-robbers-on-fbi-most-wanted-list","tag-robbery-of-tio-jewelers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}