| Probable cause affidavit: |
SUBMITTED BY: SMITH, STEVE 0292 (AR10116639) DID UNLAWFULLY AND FELONIOUSLY SELL, MANUFACTURE OR DELIVER OR POSSESS WITH INTENT TO SELL, MANUFACTURE OR DELIVER OR CAUSE TO BE SOLD, MANUFACTURED OR DELIVERED TO ANOTHER PERSON, A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE, TO-WIT: METHAMPHETAMINE, IN VIOLATION OF FLORIDA STATUTES 893.13(6)(A); AND DID UNLAWFULLY HAVE IN HIS/HER ACTUAL OR CONSTRUCTIVE POSSESSION A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE, TO WIT: METHAMPHETAMINE, IN VIOLATION OF FLORIDA STATE STATUTE 893.13(6)(A); AND DID UNLAWFULLY AGREE, CONSPIRE, COMBINE, OR CONFEDERATE, WITH ANOTHER PERSON OR PERSONS TO COMMIT AN OFFENSE OF CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY, TO WIT: CONSPIRES TO MANUFACTURE METHAMPHETAMINE, IN VIOLATION OF FLORIDA STATE STATUTE 777.04(3); AND DID UNLAWFULLY HAVE IN HIS/HER ACTUAL OR CONSTRUCTIVE POSSESSION WITH THE INTENT TO USE, OR DID UNLAWFULLY USE, AN OBJECT INTENDED OR DESIGNED FOR USE IN STORING, CONCEALING OR INJECTING, INGESTING, INHALING OR OTHERWISE INTRODUCING INTO THE HUMAN BODY, A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE, TO WIT: GLASS METHAMPHETAMINE PIPE, IN VIOLATION OF FLORIDA STATE STATUTES 893.145 AND 893.147(1)(B). OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS THIS DEPUTY HAS RECEIVED INFORMATION THROUGH CONFIDENTIAL SOURCES AS WELL AS OTHER INVESTIGATIVE TOOLS ALLEGING THE ILLEGAL MANUFACTURING AND USE OF METHAMPHETAMINE AT 7175 NORTH PEARL POINT IN HERNANDO. UPON THIS DEPUTY beginning HIS INVESTIGATION AT THE RESIDENCE IT WAS LEARNED THAT ALL THREE RESIDENTS, DEFENDANT ABRAM CARVER, DEFENDANT JENNIFER CARVER, AND DEFENDANT RYAN FATZINGER HAVE MADE MULTIPLE PURCHASES OF PSEUDOEPHEDRINE FROM MULTIPLE STORES IN AND AROUND CITRUS COUNTY. ON 082310, THIS DEPUTY AS WELL AS DEPUTY COLEMAN RESPONDED TO THE RESIDENCE. UPON ARRIVAL, CONTACT WAS MADE WITH THE HOMEOWNER, DEFENDANT ABRAM CARVER. HE WAS ADVISED THAT WE HAD RECEIVED INFORMATION THAT DEFENDANT FATZINGER WAS DEALING IN STOLEN PROPERTY AND THAT SINCE WE HAD LEARNED THAT HE WAS AT THE RESIDENCE WE WERE WONDERING IF THERE WAS ANY STOLEN PROPERTY ON THE PROPERTY. DEFENDANT ABRAM CARVER IMMEDIATELY GAVE BOTH DEPUTIES PERMISSION TO CHECK THE YARD AND ESCORTED BOTH DEPUTIES DURING THE SEARCH. WHILE WALKING AROUND THE PROPERTY WITH MR CARVER THIS DEPUTY DID OBSERVE ON THE FRONT PORCH AREA A BOTTLE OF MURIATIC ACID WHICH IS USED DURING THE PRODUCTION AND MANUFACTURING OF METHAMPHETAMINE. UPON WALKING TO THE NORTHEAST AREA OF THE YARD A BURN PIT WAS LOCATED. INSIDE THE BURN PIT WAS A MOUNTAIN DEW BOTTLE, WHICH IN THIS DEPUTY'S EXPERIENCE WAS USED IN THE MANUFACTURING OF METHAMPHETAMINE. ALSO IN THE BURN PIT WAS AN APPROXIMATELY ONE FOOT LONG PIECE OF PLASTIC TUBING which WAS COMING FROM A BURNT PLASTIC BOTTLE, WHICH IN THIS DEPUTY'S EXPERIENCE WAS FROM A GAS GENERATOR USED IN THE FINAL PRODUCTION OF MANUFACTURING METHAMPHETAMINE. AT THAT TIME, THE DEPUTIES DEPARTED THE AREA. THIS DEPUTY WAS ABLE TO ASCERTAIN A SEARCH WARRANT SIGNED BY THE HONORABLE JUDGE THOMAS, WHICH WAS EXECUTED ON 090210. UPON ARRIVAL, WE MADE CONTACT WITH ALL THREE DEFENDANTS INSIDE THEIR VEHICLE IN THE FRONT YARD. ALL THREE DEFENDANTS WERE DETAINED. THE RESIDENCE WAS SECURED. AT THAT TIME, A COPY OF THE WARRANT WAS READ TO ALL PARTIES. AT THAT TIME, THIS DEPUTY AS WELL AS DEPUTY GREATREX CONDUCTED TAPED INTERVIEWS WITH ALL THREE DEFENDANTS. THE FIRST INTERVIEW WAS COMPLETED WITH DEFENDANT ABRAM CARVER. HE WAS READ MIRANDA FROM A PREPRINTED CARD. WHEN ASKED IF HE UNDERSTOOD HIS RIGHTS HE ADVISED HE DID. WHEN ASKED IF HE STILL WISHED TO TALK TO THIS DEPUTY HE ADVISED HE DID. AT THAT TIME, HE WAS INTERVIEWED IN REFERENCE TO THE DRUG MANUFACTURING AND DRUG USE AT THE RESIDENCE. HE DID OPENLY ADMIT TO THE MANUFACTURING OF METHAMPHETAMINE AT THE RESIDENCE. HE ADVISED THAT HE WAS USING THE RED PHOSPHORUS METHOD. HE ALSO ADVISED THIS DEPUTY WHERE ALL OF THE PRECURSOR CHEMICALS USED IN THE MANUFACTURING WERE USED IN THE RESIDENCE. IT should BE NOTED THAT ALL THE ITEMS THAT HE DESCRIBED WERE LOCATED IN the AREAS THAT HE TOLD THIS DEPUTY. HE ALSO PROVIDED THIS DEPUTY INFORMATION WHERE METHAMPHETAMINE PARAPHERNALIA AS WELL AS FINISHED METHAMPHETAMINE WOULD BE LOCATED. THIS INFORMATION WAS ALSO CONFIRMED BY SEARCHING DEPUTIES. HE ADVISED THAT HE HAD BEEN MANUFACTURING METHAMPHETAMINE AT THE RESIDENCE FOR SEVERAL MONTHS. HE WENT INTO DETAIL HOW DEFENDANT JENNIFER CARVER, DEFENDANT FATZINGER AS WELL AS ANOTHER SUSPECT PURCHASED SUDAFED. HE ADVISED THAT THEY ALL PURCHASED THE SUDAFED TOGETHER AND WHEN THE MANUFACTURING PROCESS WAS COMPLETE THEY WOULD ALL SHARE THE METHAMPHETAMINE. HE ALSO WENT INTO DETAIL IN REFERENCE TO DEFENDANT FATZINGER HELPING WITH THE MANUFACTURING PROCESS. HE ALSO ADVISED THAT SOMETIMES DEFENDANT JENNIFER CARVER ALSO WOULD HELP IN REFERENCE TO REMOVING STRIKER PLATES FROM MATCHES. UPON THE COMPLETION OF THE INTERVIEW WITH MR CARVER A TAPED INTERVIEW WAS CONDUCTED WITH MR FATZINGER. HE WAS READ MIRANDA FROM A PREPRINTED CARD. WHEN ASKED IF HE UNDERSTOOD HIS RIGHTS HE ADVISED HE DID. WHEN ASKED IF HE STILL WANTED TO SPEAK WITH THIS DEPUTY HE ADVISED HE DID. WE BEGAN DISCUSSING THE METHAMPHETAMINE USE AND MANUFACTURING AT THE RESIDENCE. DEFENDANT FATZINGER DID ADMIT TO HELPING WITH THE MANUFACTURING PROCESS AT THE RESIDENCE. HE ALSO WAS ABLE TO TELL WHERE SOME OF THE ITEMS USED FOR MANUFACTURING WERE LOCATED. HE ALSO ADMITTED TO HAVING METHAMPHETAMINE IN HIS ROOM AS WELL AS PARAPHERNALIA. HE ALSO ADMITTED AND CONFIRMED THAT ALL THREE DEFENDANTS AS WELL AS A FOURTH SUSPECT DID PURCHASE SUDAFED FOR THE MANUFACTURING PROCESS AT THE RESIDENCE AND THAT THEY SHARE THE METHAMPHETAMINE UPON THE COMPLETION OF THE COOK. AT THAT TIME, THE INTERVIEW WAS COMPLETED. A TAPED INTERVIEW WAS CONDUCTED WITH DEFENDANT JENNIFER CARVER. MS CARVER DID ADVISE THAT SHE WAS AWARE OF THE MANUFACTURING PROCESS AND THAT SHE HAD PURCHASED SUDAFED FOR THE COOKING PROCESS. SHE ALSO ADMITTED TO THIS DEPUTY THAT SHE HAD PARTICIPATED IN REMOVING STRIKER PLATES FROM MATCHBOOKS TO HELP WITH THE COOKING PROCESS. SHE ALSO PROVIDED THIS DEPUTY INFORMATION OF WHERE THE FINISHED PRODUCTS AS WELL AS PARAPHERNALIA WOULD BE LOCATED IN HER BEDROOM. SERGEANT JUSTIN FERRARA HANDLED THE LAB CLEANUP AT THE RESIDENCE. HE ALSO HANDLED ALL OF THE EVIDENCE AT THE RESIDENCE. IT SHOULD BE NOTED that ALL ITEMS BEING CONTAMINATED AND HAZARDOUS WERE DESTROYED OR DISPOSED OF. ALL OTHER CONTRABAND WAS TAKEN INTO THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE POSSESSION AND LATER TURNED IN TO EVIDENCE. ALL THREE DEFENDANTS WERE ARRESTED, HANDCUFFED (DOUBLE LOCKED), AND TRANSPORTED TO THE CITRUS COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY WITHOUT INCIDENT. DEFENDANT ABRAM CARVER'S BOND WAS SET AT $40,500.00, DEFENDANT FATZINGER'S BOND WAS SET AT $40,500.00, AND DEFENDANT JENNIFER CARVER'S BOND WAS SET AT $5,500.00. "If you are a person with a disability who needs any accommodation in order to participate in this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact the ADA Coordinator at the Office of the Trial Court Administrator, Citrus County Courthouse, 110 North Apopka Avenue, Inverness, Florida 34450, Telephone (352) 341-6700, at least 7 days before your scheduled court appearance, or immediately upon receiving this notification if the time before the scheduled appearance is less than 7 days; if you are hearing or voice impaired, call 711.” *NOT-EXEMPT* |
