| Probable cause affidavit: |
SUBMITTED BY: HUGHES, JAMES 0500 (AR10113417) DID UNLAWFULLY AND KNOWINGLY OBTAIN, USE OR ENDEAVOR TO OBTAIN OR USE THE PROPERTY OF THE VICTIM, TO-WIT: AIR CONDITIONER UNIT, OF THE VALUE OF THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($300.00) OR MORE, BUT LESS THAN FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($5,000.00), TO WIT: $4,000.00 WITH THE INTENT TO EITHER TEMPORARILY OR PERMANENTLY DEPRIVE THE VICTIM OF A RIGHT TO THE PROPERTY OR A BENEFIT THEREOF, OR DID APPROPRIATE THE SAID PROPERTY TO HIS OWN USE OR THE USE OF ANY PERSON NOT ENTITLED THERETO, IN VIOLATION OF FLORIDA STATUTES 812.014. (AND) did unlawfully traffic in or endeavor to traffic in property that HE knew or should have known was stolen, to-wit: AIR CONDITIONER, the property of THE VICTIM, in violation of Florida Statute 812.019(1); (AND) Any person who knowingly gives false verification of ownership or who gives a false or altered identification and who receives money or other consideration from a secondary metals recycler, in return for regulated metals, AND THE value of the money or other consideration received is less than $300.00, IN VIOLATION OF FLORIDA STATE STATUTE 538.23(3)(A) ON 021910 AT APPROXIMATELY 1100 HOURS, DETECTIVE STRICKLAND AND I RESPONDED TO 6587 SOUTH PREMIERE AVENUE IN HOMOSASSA IN REFERENCE TO FOLLOWING-UP ON A GRAND THEFT. DETECTIVE STRICKLAND ADVISED THAT HE OBTAINED A STATEMENT FROM THE NEIGHBOR OF THE VICTIM ADVISING SHE HAD OBSERVED TWO SUBJECTS AT THE VICTIM'S RESIDENCE RUNNING AROUND THE AIR CONDITIONER UNIT. DETECTIVE STRICKLAND ALSO ADVISED THAT HE HAD OBTAINED SURVEILLANCE PHOTOGRAPHS FROM CRYSTAL RIVER METAL RECYCLING WHERE THE DEFENDANT WAS TURNING IN AIR CONDITIONER PARTS APPROXIMATELY ONE HOUR AFTER THE VICTIM REPORTED THE INCIDENT. AT THAT TIME I MADE CONTACT WITH THE CO-DEFENDANT, MR CHRISTOPHER WALTER AT HIS RESIDENCE AND ADVISED HIM THAT THERE WAS PROBABLE CAUSE FOR HIS ARREST IN REFERENCE TO THE THEFT OF AN AIR CONDITIONER. AT THAT TIME THE CO-DEFENDANT ADVISED THAT HE DID NOT DO ANYTHING BUT THAT HE WOULD LIKE TO TALK ABOUT THE INCIDENT. AT THAT TIME WE ALSO MADE CONTACT WITH THE DEFENDANT, MR DENNIS YOUNCE, WHO WAS ADVISED THERE WAS PROBABLE CAUSE FOR HIS ARREST REFERENCE THE THEFT OF AN AIR CONDITIONER. AT THAT TIME BOTH DEFENDANTS WERE TRANSPORTED TO THE CRYSTAL RIVER COMMUNITY RESOURCE OFFICE SO THEY COULD BE INTERVIEWED BY DETECTIVE STRICKLAND. WHILE AT THE COMMUNITY RESOURCE OFFICE DETECTIVE STRICKLAND FIRST INTERVIEWED DEFENDANT, MR DENNIS YOUNCE, WHERE MR YOUNCE ADMITTED TO THE CHARGES HE WAS BEING ACCUSED OF. MR YOUNCE ADVISED THAT HE AND THE CO-DEFENDANT WENT TO THE VICTIM'S RESIDENCE IN THE EARLY MORNING HOURS AND THAT THEY HAD CUT THE AIR CONDITIONER LINES BUT LEFT THE AIR CONDITIONER AT THE PROPERTY AT THAT TIME. MR YOUNCE ADVISED THEY HAD GONE OVER TO A FRIEND'S HOUSE TO DO SOME WORK ON A VEHICLE AND DISASSEMBLE OTHER AIR CONDITIONER UNITS THAT HAD BEEN GIVEN TO THEM BY ANOTHER FRIEND. MR YOUNCE ADVISED THAT THE CO-DEFENDANT HAD GONE TO GET RID OF SOME SCRAP METAL AT INTER-COUNTY RECYCLING AND ON THE WAY BACK HAD REMOVED THE AIR CONDITIONER FROM THE VICTIM'S RESIDENCE WHICH THEY HAD PREVIOUSLY CUT THE LINES ON. MR YOUNCE THEN ADVISED THAT CO-DEFENDANT WALTERS PICKED UP THE AIR CONDITIONER FROM THE VICTIM'S RESIDENCE AND BROUGHT IT BACK TO THE RESIDENCE WHERE THEY WERE WORKING ON THE VEHICLE. MR YOUNCE ADVISED THEY DISASSEMBLED THAT AIR CONDITIONER UNIT AND BOTH BROUGHT IT TO THE CRYSTAL RIVER METAL RECYCLING WHERE HE RECYCLED IT UNDER HIS NAME. MR YOUNCE ADVISED THEY HAD RECEIVED $86.00 FOR THE AIR CONDITIONER PARTS. MYSELF AND DETECTIVE STRICKLAND THEN MADE CONTACT WITH THE CO-DEFENDANT, MR CHRISTOPHER WALTER, WHO AFTER SPEAKING WITH HIM FOR A SHORT TIME, HE ALSO ADMITTED TO STEALING THE AIR CONDITIONER UNIT AND CORROBORATED THE DEFENDANT'S STORY. AT THAT TIME DEFENDANT, DENNIS YOUNCE WAS PLACED UNDER ARREST AND TRANSPORTED TO THE CITRUS COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY FOR BOOKING. DUE TO THE DEFENDANT'S COOPERATION WITH DETECTIVE STRICKLAND HE WAS RELEASED ON HIS OWN RECOGNIZANCE. *NOT-EXEMPT* |
