MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. — A Miami-Dade felon who was arrested in 2024 following a police chase collapsed in court Friday morning after he learned that he was being sentenced to 30 years in prison.
Kevin P. Prater, 42, who is a convicted felon, was arrested Nov. 20, 2024, on more than 50 charges, including cyberstalking.
According to Florida Department of Corrections records, Prater was a drug offender on probation from Aug. 8, 2023, to Aug. 7, 2033, after a burglary conviction when he fled from police officers while driving a GMC Sonoma.
According to Detective Andre Martin, a spokesman for what was then the Miami-Dade Police Department, Prater collided with both civilians’ cars and police cars near Southwest 41st Street and 72nd Avenue and showed “no regard for anyone’s safety, including his own father, who was a passenger in that vehicle.”
According to an arrest report, Prater was wanted at the time for cyberstalking/harassing his niece who had been granted a protective injunction against him.
Detectives said that beginning in September 2024, Prater created multiple social media accounts using the victim’s name and picture without her consent, and then posted multiple videos and pictures threatening to kill the victim and her two children, who were then ages 3 and 4.
“You’re going to have a lot of people at your funeral,” he texted her, according to the report.
Detectives said he also showed up at her house uninvited and banged on her front door before leaving.
Prater also posted a video on social media of him walking through a hallway in his niece’s apartment building, and that same day she noticed him following her while she was driving, authorities said.
In the pending case before the police pursuit, Prater faced 18 charges: Three counts of written threats to kill or cause bodily injury; three counts of aggravated stalking; three counts of aggravated stalking, harassing, or cyberstalking; three counts of cyber intimidation or threat; three counts of cyber intimidation or inciting violence; and three counts of possession of identification information used to harass.
In the case after the police pursuit, Prater faced 31 charges: Seven counts of aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer; eight counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon; aggravated assault on a person 65 or older; fleeing and eluding a police officer; seven counts of resisting an officer with violence to his person; and seven counts of resisting an officer without violence to his person.
The three warrant cases were for a probation violation, reckless driving and a hold for the magistrate.
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