MIAMI – A 35-year-old man was arrested early Wednesday morning after he scaled the side of a luxury high-rise apartment building in Miami and broke into a unit while fleeing from police, authorities said.
The incident occurred Tuesday night at the Bay Parc Apartments, located at 1756 N. Bayshore Drive.
According to an arrest report, detectives were executing a search warrant at an apartment unit when Peter Alexander Peraza fled from police, entering the balcony area of the unit and then scaling down the building by using other units’ balconies until he reached a unit that was seven floors below.
Miami police said Peraza then entered the unit, trying to hide from detectives.
But police said the victim who lives in the apartment unit has security cameras, and although he was out of town, he was able to alert building management that an intruder was inside his home. Management then notified police.
Peraza was arrested on charges of burglary of an unoccupied dwelling and resisting an officer without violence.
Police said he also faces multiple charges in connection with an incident that occurred April 1 at another apartment building, located at 10 SW S. River Drive.
In that case, police said Peraza entered a man’s apartment unit with the victim’s ex-girlfriend, Lillian Rebecca Goodman, 27, who demanded $2,000 from the victim so she could pay her rent.
According to an arrest report, the victim, who did not give Goodman the money, recognized Peraza from a gym called Omega and began to film the altercation inside his apartment until Peraza “forcibly” took his cellphone from his hand.
Police said the victim fell to the floor and Peraza began kicking him, telling him “I can murder you.”
According to the report, Peraza then went to the victim’s roommate’s room and started rummaging through his belongings as Goodman took the victim’s phone, MacBook, Gucci watch and camera.
Police said the victim, who lives on the 10th floor, fled the apartment unit, taking the stairs.
At one point, he fell, breaking his right foot “with the bone visibly protruding,” the report stated.
According to the report, the victim eventually made it downstairs and asked the front desk employees to call police.
Police said the victim’s injuries required him to get two screws in his right foot. Police said the victim is unable to walk for three months and needs six months of therapy.
According to the report, surveillance video shows Peraza and Goodman leaving the building in Goodman’s white Jeep while carrying out the victim’s belongings, valued at about $4,200.
Both Peraza and Goodman face charges of burglary with assault or battery, false imprisonment, grand theft, criminal mischief, tampering with a victim and strong-arm robbery.
Police said Peraza provided a statement to detectives about Monday’s incident as well as the April 1 incident, but the statement was redacted from the publicly released report.
As of Wednesday, he was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center where online jail records listed his bond as “to be set.”
Goodman was arrested April 16. While her mugshot still appeared in the online jail database Wednesday, jail records stated that “(the) defendant is not being held in a County facility.”