Photo Courtesy of State Department of Correction
Felix Perez
By Forum Staff
A 38-year-old Brooklyn man who plead guilty to burglarizing a Maspeth, Queens home will now be sentenced to a very long term of incarceration as a mandatory persistent felon, according to District Attorney Richard Brown.
District Attorney Brown said, “In pleading guilty, the defendant has admitted to burglarizing a home in broad daylight – violating the sanctity of the victim’s residence – in an attempt to enrich himself by taking another person’s valuables. As a persistent felon, the defendant will find himself incarcerated for a very long time as a result of this criminal act.”
The defendant has been identified as Felix Perez, 38, of Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Perez pleaded guilty yesterday to second-degree burglary before Queens Supreme Court Justice Ira Margulis, who set sentencing for October 13, 2017. Perez faces 16 years to life in prison as a mandatory persistent felon.
According to the criminal charges, police officers responded to a 911 call of a burglary in progress on 66th Street in Maspeth, Queens, on the afternoon of Monday, August 1, 2016. When police entered the home, they observed the defendant Perez to be unlawfully inside the residence. A physical altercation ensued and the defendant was shot in the upper thigh, but managed to flee the house. Perez was apprehended soon afterwards approximately a block away from the home.
