| Probable cause affidavit: |
SUBMITTED BY: WEAKS, DANIEL 0553 (AR10116285) did, knowing HER driver's license or driving privilege had been cancelled, suspended or revoked, drive a motor vehicle upon the highways of this state while such license or privilege was cancelled, in violation of Florida Statute 322.34(2)(a). ON 081210, I WAS CONDUCTING A SECURITY CHECK IN THE AREA OF 41 SOUTH and EAST GOBBLER DRIVE, AT WHICH TIME I OBSERVED A WHITE CHEVY MINI VAN DRIVING AT AN EXTREMELY HIGH RATE OF SPEED SOUTHBOUND ON HIGHWAY 41 WHICH WAS DRIVEN BY A WHITE FEMALE. I NOTIFIED DISPATCH and ATTEMPTED TO CATCH UP TO THE VEHICLE, which AT ONE POINT I WAS ABLE TO ROUGHLY PACE THE VEHICLE AT WHAT I ESTIMATED TO BE 100 MILES PER HOUR. I CONTINUED TO FOLLOW THE VEHICLE AND DID ACTIVATE MY LIGHTS AND SIRENS. I OBSERVED THE VEHICLE TURN EAST ONTO EAST NORTHLAKE, AND SUBSEQUENTLY TURN RIGHT ONTO EAST SOUTHLAKE DRIVE. WHEN I CAUGHT UP TO the VEHICLE IT HAD DRIVEN ERRATICALLY THROUGH THE YARD AT 7812 EAST SOUTHLAKE, LEAVING SKID MARKS AND TEARING UP THE GRASS AND THE VEHICLE WAS PARKED BEHIND this RESIDENCE. I APPROACHED THE VEHICLE ON FOOT AND THE DRIVER OF THE VEHICLE WHO WAS LATER IDENTIFIED AS THE DEFENDANT, MS ANGELA SMITH, HAD FLED ON FOOT. I CHECKED THE RESIDENCE WHICH APPEARED TO BE VACANT, AND LEAD ME TO BELIEVE the DEFENDANT HAD FLED INTO THE WOODS. I PROVIDED DISPATCH WITH THE LICENSE PLATE AND THEY ADVISED THE REGISTERED OWNER HAD AN ADDRESS IN INVERNESS WHICH LED ME TO BELIEVE THIS VEHICLE WAS NOT ASSOCIATED WITH THIS RESIDENCE. MYSELF AND SERGEANT LANE WHO HAD ARRIVED ON SCENE, THEN CONDUCTED A SEARCH ON FOOT IN the IMMEDIATE AREA. WHILE IN the WOOD LINE BEHIND THIS RESIDENCE, WE DID HEAR A LOUD BEEPING SOUND WHICH WE BELIEVED TO BE FROM A CELLULAR TELEPHONE AND DID SUBSEQUENTLY FIND A CELL PHONE IN the WOODS APPROXIMATELY 50 FEET FROM the VEHICLE. the CELL PHONE DID BELONG TO THE DEFENDANT AND SERGEANT LANE DID SUBSEQUENTLY DISCOVER THE DEFENDANT APPROXIMATELY 50 YARDS SOUTH OF THE CELL PHONE LAYING ON the GROUND CURLED UP HIDING. SERGEANT LANE AND I ESCORTED HER OUT OF the WOODS AND TO MY PATROL VEHICLE, AT WHICH TIME WE HAD THE DEFENDANT SIT IN the REAR SEAT OF MY PATROL VEHICLE WITH THE DOOR OPEN AND HER FEET HANGING out OF THE DOOR. AT this TIME I ADVISED HER OF HER MIRANDA RIGHTS VIA PREPRINTED CARD. I ASKED HER WHY SHE WAS TRAVELING AT SUCH A HIGH RATE OF SPEED DOWN 41 SOUTH, TO WHICH SHE ADVISED SHE WAS BEING CHASED AND WAS TRYING TO GET AWAY FROM UNKNOWN PERSONS. I ASKED HER WHERE THE CHASE STARTED, TO WHICH SHE ADVISED AT GRIFF'S. I ADVISED HER THAT GRIFF'S CLOSED AT 0200 HOURS and THAT I WAS IN the AREA. I ALSO ADVISED HER THAT WHEN SHE PASSED BY ME I DID NOT OBSERVE ANY OTHER VEHICLES. I ASKED HER WHY IF SHE WAS BEING CHASED, WHY SHE DID NOT STOP WHEN SHE SAW THE LIGHTS AND SIRENS BEHIND her, AND SHE ADVISED THAT THE POLICE HAD NEVER DONE ANYTHING FOR HER. I ASKED HER WHY she FLED INTO THE WOODS, FOR WHICH SHE COULD NOT ARTICULATE AN ANSWER. DURING ALL OF THIS QUESTIONING the DEFENDANT WAS SOMEWHAT HYSTERICAL AND BELLIGERENT. AFTER VERIFYING THE DEFENDANT'S IDENTITY, I RESEARCHED her DRIVER'S LICENSE USING BOTH PREMIER AND D.A.V.I.D., AND DISCOVERED THE DEFENDANT'S DRIVER'S LICENSE WAS SUSPENDED (KNOWINGLY) MULTIPLE TIMES. the OWNER OF THE VEHICLE WAS CALLED TO THE SCENE TO RECOVER THE VEHICLE. THE DEFENDANT WAS PLACED UNDER ARREST FOR DRIVING WHILE LICENSE SUSPENDED KNOWINGLY, HANDCUFFED AND SEARCHED, AND PLACED IN THE REAR OF MY PATROL VEHICLE AND TRANSPORTED TO the CITRUS COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY FOR PROCESSING. THE DEFENDANT'S BOND WAS SET AT $500.00, PER THE BOND SCHEDULE. THE DEFENDANT WAS ISSUED UNIFORM TRAFFIC CITATION NUMBER 7215-FRY9 FOR DWLS (KNOWINGLY); SHE WAS ISSUED CITATION NUMBER 216-FRYX FOR 100 MILES PER HOUR IN A 50 MPH ZONE, AND CITATION NUMBER 7217-FRYX FOR CARELESS DRIVING. *NOT-EXEMPT* |
