| Probable cause affidavit: |
SUBMITTED BY: SMITH, STEVEN 0292 (AR13-3978) (13-000407) 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: TO MANUFACTURE METHAMPHETAMINE, IN VIOLATION OF FLORIDA STATE STATUTE 893.13(1)(A)(1). DID UNLAWFULLY HAVE IN HIS/HER POSSESSION LISTED PRECURSOR CHEMICALS OR ESSENTIAL CHEMICALS USED IN THE MANUFACTURING OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE IN VIOLATION OF FLORIDA STATE STATUTE 893.149(1)(A) THESE CHEMICALS ARE CRITICAL TO THE CREATION OF THE CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE, TO WIT: LITHIUM METAL, AMMONIA NITRATE METHAMPHETAMINE. DID UNLAWFULLY HAVE IN HIS 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: SYRINGES USED TO SHOOT METHAMPHETAMINE, IN VIOLATION OF FLORIDA STATE STATUTES 893.145 AND 893.147(1)(B) ON 010113, DEPUTY PARSONS AND I WERE CONTACTED VIA TELEPHONE AND ADVISED BY PATROL DEPUTY HRYC THAT THEY WERE RESPONDING TO A RESIDENCE LOCATED AT 4901 WEST MENASHA STREET IN LECANTO, IN REFERENCE TO A THIRD PARTY CALLER WHO ADVISED THAT HIS MOTHER/DEFENDANT, MS LINDA CHOUNARD, HAD CALLED HIM AND ADVISED THAT HER BOYFRIEND/DEFENDANT, MR DENNIS MANSFIELD, HAD BEEN COOKING METHAMPHETAMINE INSIDE OF THEIR RESIDENCE OVER THE PAST SEVERAL DAYS AND THAT NOW THERE WERE FUMES INSIDE THE RESIDENCE. UPON DEPUTY HRYC, RESPONDING TO THE SCENE AND MAKING CONTACT WITH THE TWO DEFENDANT, HE CONTACTED DEPUTY PARSONS AND ADVISED HIM THAT BOTH DEFENDANTS WERE HIGH ON METHAMPHETAMINE. HE ALSO ADVISED THAT WITHOUT BEING PROMPTED, THEY SPONTANEOUSLY UTTERED THAT THERE WERE METHAMPHETAMINE ITEMS RELATED TO THE MANUFACTURING PROCESS INSIDE OF THE RESIDENCE, AND THEN BEGAN POINTING THEM OUT TO DEPUTY HRYC. DEPUTY HRYC WAS ADVISED TO SECURE THE SCENE AND TO KEEP THE TWO DEFENDANTS A SAFE DISTANCE FROM THE RESIDENCE. DEPUTY PARSONS AND I RESPONDED TO THE RESIDENCE. UPON ARRIVAL, WE MADE CONTACT WITH BOTH DEFENDANTS, WHO WERE OBVIOUSLY UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF METHAMPHETAMINE. THIS DEPUTY FIRST MADE CONTACT WITH DEFENDANT MANSFIELD. HE WAS THEN READ MIRANDA RIGHTS VIA PREPRINTED AGENCY CARD AND ASKED IF HE UNDERSTOOD HIS RIGHTS, TO WHICH HE REPLIED THAT HE DID. I THEN ASKED HIM IF HE WISHED TO SPEAK WITH ME AT THIS TIME, TO WHICH HE ADVISED THAT HE WOULD. DURING THIS INTERVIEW DEFENDANT MANSFIELD ADMITTED TO PURCHASING RED DEVIL LYE, LIQUID DRAIN OPENER, COLEMAN FUEL, AND APPROXIMATELY SIX PACKAGES OF SUDAFED. HE ALSO OPENLY ADMITTED THAT HE HAD BEEN USING METHAMPHETAMINE FOR A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. HE ADVISED THAT HE HAD ATTEMPTED TO MANUFACTURE METHAMPHETAMINE ON TWO SEPARATE OCCASIONS; THE FIRST DID NOT TURN OUT AND THE SECOND WAS APPROXIMATELY TWO DAYS AGO, WHICH IS WHERE THE METHAMPHETAMINE THAT THE TWO DEFENDANT HAD BEEN USING CAME FROM. HE ALSO WENT ON TO POINT OUT AND DESCRIBE WHERE THE ITEMS WOULD BE LOCATED IN THE RESIDENCE. HE OPENLY ADMITTED THAT HIS FINGERPRINTS WOULD BE ON ALL THE ITEMS. HE ALSO WAS ASKED DURING THIS INTERVIEW ABOUT THE CONSENT TO SEARCH THAT HE PROVIDED DEPUTY HRYC AND HE ADVISED THAT HE GAVE IT FREELY AND VOLUNTARILY. AT THIS TIME THE INTERVIEW WAS CONCLUDED. AT THAT TIME AN INTERVIEW WAS CONDUCTED WITH DEFENDANT CHOUNARD, WHO WAS READ MIRANDA RIGHTS VIA PREPRINTED AGENCY CARD AND ASKED IF SHE UNDERSTOOD HER RIGHTS, TO WHICH SHE REPLIED THAT SHE DID. I THEN ASKED HER IF SHE WISHED TO SPEAK WITH ME AT THIS TIME, TO WHICH SHE ADVISED THAT SHE WOULD. AT THAT TIME SHE CONFIRMED THE CONFESSION OF DEFENDANT MANSFIELD. SHE ADVISED THAT SHE DID NOT PURCHASE EPHEDRINE, HOWEVER SHE ADVISED THAT SHE DID HOLD THE CONTAINERS DURING THE GASSING OFF PROCESS. SHE ALSO SEPARATED THE AMMONIA NITRATE FROM THE COLD PACKS AND AFTER IT WAS SEPARATED, SHE WOULD CRUSH IT FOR THE COOKING PROCESS. SHE ALSO ADMITTED TO CLEANING UP AND WASHING THE ITEMS FROM THE COOK. WHEN ASKED IF THEY SOLD THE PRODUCT SHE ADVISED NO, THAT THE METHAMPHETAMINE THAT WAS MANUFACTURED WAS SMOKED BY THE TWO DEFENDANTS. UPON THE CONCLUSION OF THIS INTERVIEW, A SEARCH OF THE RESIDENCE LEAD TO THE DISCOVERY OF THE FOLLOWING ITEMS: UNDER THE KITCHEN SINK WAS LIQUID DRANO AND COLEMAN FUEL, BEHIND THE STOVE WAS A ONE POT METHAMPHETAMINE COOK, A CONTAINER OF LYE AND SOME TUBING WAS ALSO LOCATED IN THIS AREA. A PAIR OF RUBBER GLOVES WAS ALSO LOCATED BESIDE THE STOVE. BOTH DEFENDANTS ADVISED THAT THE WASTE FROM THE LABORATORY WAS IN THE GARBAGE BESIDE THE STOVE. A SEARCH OF THIS GARBAGE DID LEAD TO A PLASTIC BAG THAT WAS TIED SHUT. INSIDE THE PLASTIC BAG WERE COLD PACKS WHICH HAD BEEN RIPPED OPEN AND STILL CONTINUED AMMONIA NITRATE, ALSO LOCATED WERE LITHIUM BATTERY CASINGS, THREE LARGE PIECES OF LITHIUM METAL, THE BOXES THAT THE EPHEDRINE CAME IN AND THE RECEIPTS FROM THE PURCHASE, AND SEVERAL USED COFFEE FILTERS AND PAPER TOWELS. ALSO LOCATED IN THE RESIDENCE BY THE FRONT DOOR, WAS A WOOD BOX WHICH BOTH DEFENDANTS ADVISED WOULD CONTAIN SYRINGES AND PARAPHERNALIA USED FOR SHOOTING METHAMPHETAMINE. NEXT TO THE BOX A PIECE OF NOTEBOOK PAPER WAS LOCATED, LISTING THE INGREDIENTS NEED TO MAKE METHAMPHETAMINE AND A DETAILED RECIPE INSTRUCTIONS. UPON CHECKING THE SYRINGES, SEVERAL OF THEM WERE TESTED AND DID TEST POSITIVE FOR METHAMPHETAMINE. THE PARAPHERNALIA ITEMS AND THE METHAMPHETAMINE RECIPE PAPER WERE COLLECTED BY DEPUTY PARSONS AND TURNED IN TO EVIDENCE. ALL LABORATORY RELATED ITEMS WERE COLLECTED BY ME AND LATER TURNED IN TO THE LANDFILL FOR DESTRUCTION. A SEARCH OF THE OUTSIDE OF THE RESIDENCE ALSO LED TO THE DISCOVERY OF A PLASTIC GAS CAN CONTAINING MURIATIC ACID AND AN ADDITIONAL CAN OF COLEMAN FUEL. THESE ITEMS WERE ALSO RECOVERED BY ME AND TURNED IN WITH THE OTHER ITEMS MARKED FOR DESTRUCTION. THERE WERE SEVERAL BURN PILES IN THE YARD. IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT THESE PILES DID CONTAIN CUT BATTERY CASINGS. THE DEFENDANTS WERE THEN PLACED UNDER ARREST, HANDCUFFED, (DOUBLE LOCKED), BEHIND THEIR BACK, AND TRANSPORTED TO THE CITRUS COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY FOR BOOKING AND PROCESSING. THE DEFENDANT'S BONDS WERE SET AT $150,500 A PIECE, PER THE BOND SCHEDULE. |
