Overview
- Police say a man visiting from New York and his wife were confronted on Harding Avenue and that the suspect hurled antisemitic insults before striking the husband and threatening to kill him.
- The victim’s wife captured part of the encounter on her cellphone and investigators cite that footage along with witness accounts in their inquiry.
- Officers located and arrested 35-year-old Jorden Stephen Perozo at his workplace on Wednesday without incident and booked him on bias-enhanced charges.
- Perozo was charged with battery with prejudice and harassing or intimidating someone because of religious or ethnic heritage and is being held on $6,000 bond at Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.
- Investigators note a June arrest tying Perozo to damage of a large inflatable FIFA soccer ball in Miami Beach, a prior link that prosecutors say may show a pattern and that community leaders have raised as a concern.