The former Miami Heat security officer declares himself guilty of selling stolen memorabilia

Miami (AP) – A former Miami Heat security officer declared himself guilty on Tuesday to transport and transfer millions of dollars of daronged shirts to the stolen game and other memorabilia.

Marcos Thomas Perez, 62, was a 25 -year -old veteran from the Miami police department. Miami’s resident worked for Heat from 2016 to 2021 and as an NBA security employee from 2022 to 2025.

According to the United States prosecutor’s office for the southern district of Florida and the FBI Miami, Perez has stolen more than 400 shirts and other objects from a protected equipment room and has sold articles through various online markets. He had access because he worked on the details of the game of the game of the game at the Kaseya Center. It was one of the few employees with access to a room for protected equipment that stored cimeli the heat organization that had planned to show in a team’s future museum.

For a period of three years, the authorities say that Perez has sold more than 100 items stolen for about $ 1.9 million and sent them through state lines, often at business prices. They say he sold a shirt of Miami Heat Lebron James during the NBA finals for about $ 100,000. The same shirt later sold at Sotheby auction for $ 3.7 million.