Nelson Alejandro Perez-Valdivia turned himself in final week after police recognized him as the person in an Instagram video firing greater than a dozen rounds into the air from the passenger seat of the Lamborghini because it darted down the Palmetto Expressway on December 23. He was charged with a number of counts of discharging a firearm on a public street inside 1,000 toes of individuals.
Records obtained by New Times present that Perez-Valdivia had been charged for 3 earlier incidents during which police claimed he illegally exhibited or discharged a firearm in public. In one incident, police mentioned Perez-Valdivia waved loaded weapons round in a automotive for a social media video in Kendall. Another incident amounted to an alleged tried homicide, although prosecutors dropped the case, citing a scarcity of witness cooperation.
The first incident dates again to May 16, 2020, when a detective driving westbound on Southwest 88th Street in Kendall noticed Perez-Valdivia within the passenger seat of a white Mercedes Benz, waving round two firearms, an arrest affidavit alleges. The detective pulled over the automobile and ordered Perez-Valdivia out, after which level he “spontaneously said that he was making a social media video” and that the weapons didn’t belong to him, the affidavit states.
Two loaded firearms — one Glock 9mm and a .40-caliber Smith and Wesson — have been recovered.
Perez-Valdivia was charged with improper exhibition of a firearm, although the case is listed as nolle prosequi, indicating prosecutors didn’t pursue the cost.
About a year-and-a-half later, in January 2022, a white Toyota Corolla pulled up subsequent to a dark-colored Corvette during which Perez-Valdivia was using on Southwest 117th Avenue close to Southwest fortieth Street in Miami. An arrest affidavit alleges that an unspecified “argument ensued” between Perez-Valdivia and a passenger within the again seat of the Corolla, and that Perez-Valdivia opened hearth on the automobile, hanging its rear door, roof, and entrance windshield earlier than fleeing on Southwest fortieth.
Two different occupants of the Toyota positively recognized Perez-Valdivia when police confirmed them a photograph array. No one was reported injured within the incident.
On January 5, 2022, the day after the alleged capturing, a detective and a sergeant for the Miami-Dade Police Department paid Perez-Valdivia a go to at his listed Miami residence and located him standing on the sidewalk. According to a 3rd affidavit, Perez-Valdivia pulled out a black pistol, lifted it within the air, and chambered a dwell spherical in entrance of the officers. The affidavit states that Perez-Valdivia dropped the gun onto the bottom after legislation enforcement surrounded him. He was taken into custody with out incident.
Perez-Valdivia was charged with tried homicide for allegedly capturing on the Toyota. He was slapped with extra costs of unlicensed carry of a hid firearm and improper exhibition of a firearm for the January 5 incident with Miami-Dade police.
According to a closeout memo from the Miami-Dade County state legal professional’s workplace, the “victims have been initially on board” within the tried homicide case however stopped responding to prosecutors’ makes an attempt to contact them. One sufferer said that he was not fascinated about pursuing the case, in line with the memo.
In March 2022, the state dropped the tried homicide counts and “filed a bind-down info charging the defendant with improper exhibition of a weapon.”
Perez-Valdivia is at the moment housed at Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, in line with county information.
On December 28, after his arrest for allegedly spraying bullets into the air on the Palmetto Expressway, Perez-Valdivia’s bond on one more legal case was revoked. His legal professional, Andrew Rier, clarified that the revoked bond stemmed from a March 2022 case towards Perez-Valdivia involving a cost of fleeing or eluding police.
“My consumer is cooperating, and we hope to have the matter resolved rapidly,” Rier tells New Times.