A bare-knuckle fighter already known to Miami-Dade law enforcement for a dramatic high-rise escape attempt is back behind bars, accused this time of burglarizing a West Miami-Dade home and making off with roughly $103,600 in luxury handbags, jewelry and two firearms. Peter Alexander Peraza was arrested Thursday after Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office detectives executed a search warrant at his residence, according to the arrest report.
The burglary itself happened back on June 27, when detectives say Peraza broke into the West Miami-Dade home and stole several luxury handbags, jewelry, and a Glock .45-caliber handgun and a Taurus 9mm handgun, according to WSVN 7News. Police estimated the total value of the stolen property at about $103,600. Surveillance video captured the burglary, and detectives said the footage showed identifiable clothing and characteristics that helped tie Peraza to the scene.
Investigators built their case before seeking the search warrant executed at his home Thursday by the MDSO Special Response Team. During that search, detectives recovered luxury bags taken during the burglary, one of the stolen firearms, and clothing matching what was worn during the break-in, per the same report.
Drugs, Firearms and Property Damage Uncovered
The search of Peraza's residence didn't stop at recovering stolen goods. Detectives said they found suspected cannabis and THC cartridges, along with about 635 grams of suspected cannabis, four grams of suspected psilocybin, and five pounds of suspected THC wax, per the arrest report. After obtaining another search warrant, detectives say they recovered more than 7,000 grams of suspected liquid THC products.
Peraza is also accused of causing approximately $7,500 in property damage and of resisting an officer without violence during the encounter with detectives, according to police statements cited in the report. He now faces a lengthy list of charges: armed burglary, first-degree grand theft, two counts of grand theft of a firearm, multiple drug possession charges, criminal mischief, and resisting an officer without violence.
A Familiar Face to Miami-Dade Police
Peraza is not new to South Florida headlines. He competes as a professional bare-knuckle fighter under the ring name Dirt 2 Gold in the Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship and has built an Instagram following of more than 50,000 people, according to CiberCuba. That public profile helped fuel intense local media interest in May 2025, when Peraza tried to evade a SWAT search warrant by descending from the 19th floor to a unit seven floors below using other units' balconies at an Edgewater high-rise, an escape attempt that Local 10 News reported earned him comparisons to Spider-Man before he was captured.
That 2025 SWAT raid stemmed from an April 1, 2025 incident in downtown Miami, in which Peraza and an accomplice allegedly broke into an apartment, severely beat a resident who suffered a broken foot, and stole $4,200 in luxury goods during an alleged extortion attempt, as Hoodline previously reported. Following that arrest, Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Mindy S. Glazer ordered Peraza held without bail, noting his robbery with assault or battery charge carried potential life imprisonment under Florida law, per CiberCuba's account of the bond hearing. It remains unclear from available records what Peraza's bail status or trial schedule looks like from that earlier case as the new charges move forward.
What Peraza Could Be Facing Under Florida Law
The charges stemming from Thursday's arrest carry serious statutory exposure. Armed burglary of a dwelling is classified as a first-degree felony under Florida Statute 810.02, punishable by up to life imprisonment in state prison. Separately, grand theft is elevated to a first-degree felony under Florida Statute 812.014 once stolen property crosses $100,000 in value, carrying a maximum sentence of up to 30 years and a $10,000 fine — a threshold the $103,600 valuation in this case surpasses.
The drug charges also carry weight beyond what raw weight figures might suggest. Under Florida's drug statutes, possession of manufactured cannabis concentrates such as THC wax or liquid cartridges is prosecuted as an automatic felony regardless of quantity, unlike raw cannabis flower under 20 grams, according to Valiente Law's breakdown of the statute. That distinction helps explain why the THC wax and liquid THC products recovered from Peraza's home led to felony drug charges on top of the burglary and theft counts.
New Sheriff, Same South Florida Luxury-Theft Pattern
Thursday's search warrant was carried out by the Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office, the agency that officially replaced the Miami-Dade Police Department on January 7, 2025, under newly sworn Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz — restoring an elected sheriff to the county for the first time since 1966, per Miami-Dade County records. The case also fits into a broader pattern of high-value luxury property thefts across the region, including a March 2024 heist in Miami Beach in which thieves stole nearly $2 million in Hermès designer handbags from a hotel retail store, as Hoodline reported at the time in its coverage of the Setai Hotel Hermès heist.
Peraza's arrest put his name back in headlines for very different reasons. All charges against Peraza remain allegations at this stage, and the case is subject to further judicial proceedings.
