| Probable cause affidavit: |
SUBMITTED BY: CHENOWETH, JACOB 0708 (12-100404) (AR12-1436) DID, KNOWING HIS DRIVERâS 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 STATE STATUTE 322.341. DID UNLAWFULLY RESIST, OBSTRUCT OR OPPOSE DEPUTY CHENOWETH, WHO WAS THEN AND THERE IN THE LAWFUL EXECUTION OF A LEGAL DUTY, OR EXECUTION OF LEGAL PROCESS, TO WIT: ATTEMPTED TO FLEE ON FOOT TO PREVENT ARREST, WITHOUT OFFERING OR DOING VIOLENCE TO THE PERSON OF SUCH OFFICER, IN VIOLATION OF FLORIDA STATE STATUTE 843.02. ON 060212 AT APPROXIMATELY 0523 HOURS, I WAS AT 960 NORTH ROCK CRUSHER ROAD IN REFERENCE TO INVESTIGATING AN INCIDENT. WHILE INVESTIGATING THE INCIDENT, I OBSERVED A BLACK GMC VAN HEADING SOUTHBOUND ON NORTH ROCK CRUSHER ROAD THAT REFUSED TO SLOW THE VEHICLEâS SPEED DOWN. THE VEHICLE NEARLY STRUCK DEPUTY PERUCHE, SERGEANT FIELDS AND I WITH THE PASSENGER SIDE MIRROR. I RETURNED TO MY PATROL VEHICLE AND PURSUED THE VEHICLE SOUTH ONTO NORTH ROCK CRUSHER ROAD MAKING A LEFT ONTO WEST PINE CIRCLE. I THEN INITIATED MY OVERHEAD LIGHTS AND ATTEMPTED TO CONDUCT A TRAFFIC STOP. THE VEHICLE BEARING FLORIDA TAG BAQL43 REFUSED TO STOP, AT WHICH TIME I INITIATED MY PATROL VEHICLE SIREN. THE VEHICLE THEN PULLED INTO THE DRIVEWAY OF 6022 WEST PINE CIRCLE. AT WHICH TIME, I OBSERVED THE DRIVER DESCRIBED AS A WHITE MALE WEARING A BLACK T-SHIRT, BLUE JEANS AND A BLACK BASEBALL CAP EXIT THE DRIVERâS SIDE OF THE VEHICLE AND ATTEMPT TO FLEE ON FOOT RUNNING IN AN EASTERLY DIRECTION THROUGH THE YARD. I THEN EXITED MY PATROL VEHICLE AND PURSUED THE SUBJECT ON FOOT. I THEN DREW MY DEPARTMENT ISSUED TASER, POINTED THE TASER AT the SUBJECT AND DEPLOYED the TASER STRIKING THE SUBJECT IN the BACK. the SUBJECT/DEFENDANT IDENTIFIED AS MR DAVID MATTOX, THEN FELL TO THE GROUND. AFTER A FULL CYCLE OF THE TASER, I ORDERED THE DEFENDANT TO PLACE HIS HANDS BEHIND HIS BACK, TO WHICH HE COMPLIED. I THEN PLACED HANDCUFFS ON THE DEFENDANT BEHIND HIS BACK DOUBLE LOCKED. I ASKED THE DEFENDANT SEVERAL TIMES IF HE NEEDED EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES, WHICH HE REFUSED. the TASER BARBS WERE REMOVED FROM THE DEFENDANTâS BACK AND WHILE DOING SO, THE DEFENDANT STATED the REASON HE RAN WAS BECAUSE HE ALREADY HAD FOUR DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCES AND COULD NOT HAVE ANOTHER ONE. the DEFENDANT ALSO STATED THAT HE DID NOT HAVE A VALID DRIVER'S LICENSE AND WAS TRYING TO REACH HIS NEPHEWâS HOUSE. the DEFENDANT FURTHER STATED THAT HE KNEW IF HE WAS CAUGHT HE WAS FACING PRISON TIME SO WHEN HE WAS CAUGHT HE DECIDED HE WOULD GIVE THIS DEPUTY A RUN FOR HIS MONEY. SERGEANT FIELDS WAS ADVISED OF THE SITUATION AND RESPONDED to the SCENE. the DEFENDANT WAS SECURED IN the REAR SEAT OF THIS DEPUTYâS PATROL VEHICLE. THE DEFENDANTâS VEHICLE WAS TOWED BY KNIGHTLY AUTO WHICH DEPUTY B HESSE STOOD BY WITH THE VEHICLE UNTIL THE WRECKER ARRIVED ON SCENE. AFTER RESEARCHING the DEFENDANTâS DRIVING RECORD THROUGH DRIVER AND VEHICLE INFORMATION DATABASE IT REVEALED FOUR DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE CONVICTIONS ON 043089, 082998, 061601, AND 031905 AND THREE DRIVING WHILE LICENSE SUSPENDED OR REVOKED CONVICTIONS ON 071199, 031905, AND 103006. the DEFENDANT WAS THEN TRANSPORTED TO THE CITRUS COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY FOR BOOKING AND PROCESSING. UPON ARRIVAL AT THE CITRUS COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY, THIS DEPUTY WAS ADVISED THAT the CITRUS COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY WOULD NOT ACCEPT THE DEFENDANT WITHOUT MEDICAL CLEARANCE FROM A DOCTOR. EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES RESPONDED TO THE CITRUS COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY WHERE MEDIC 2 TRANSPORTED the DEFENDANT TO CITRUS MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM WHILE THIS DEPUTY FOLLOWED IN MY PATROL VEHICLE. THIS DEPUTY STOOD BY WITH THE DEFENDANT AT CITRUS MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM WHILE HOSPITAL STAFF EVALUATE THE DEFENDANT. DEPUTY CROSNOE ARRIVED AT CITRUS MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM AND THE DEFENDANT WAS TURNED OVER TO DEPUTY CROSNOE. THE DEFENDANT WAS ISSUED UNIFORM TRAFFIC CITATION NUMBER 6829GQF6 FOR DRIVING ON A PERMANENTLY REVOKED DRIVER'S LICENSE WITH A MANDATORY COURT APPEARANCE OF 062112 AT 1300 HOURS AT THE CITRUS COUNTY COURTHOUSE. the DEFENDANT WAS ISSUED WARNING 338156B FOR CARELESS DRIVING. |
