| Probable cause affidavit: |
SUBMITTED BY: ANSTEAD, LAURA 0459 (AR09107916) DID UNLAWFULLY AND MALICIOUSLY INJURE, DESTROY, REMOVE, OR IN ANY MANNER INTERFERE WITH the USE OF ANY VEHICLES, TOOLS, EQUIPMENT, WATER SUPPLIES, HYDROGEN, TOWERS, BUILDINGS, COMMUNICATION FACILITIES, OR OTHER INSTRUMENTS OR FACILITIES USED IN the DETECTION REPORTING, SUPPRESSION OR EXTINGUISHMENT OF FIRE TO WIT; THE DEFENDANT DID REMOVE SAFETY CAP FROM SPRINKLER SYSTEM ACTIVATING OVERHEAD SPRINKLERS WHICH DISABLED THE FIRE SAFETY APPARATUS FOR the ENTIRE WING IN VIOLATION OF FLORIDA STATE STATUTE, 806.10(1) ON 030109, I RESPONDED TO the CITRUS COUNTY DETENTION MEDICAL WING IN REFERENCE TO A POSSIBLE FIRE. UPON MY ARRIVAL, I OBSERVED THAT the ENTIRE WING WAS FLOODED WITH APPROXIMATELY ONE INCH OF WATER ON the FLOOR. THE DETENTION PERSONNEL HAD STOPPED the SPRINKLER AND WERE IN the PROCESS OF CLEANING UP. THE SERGEANT ON DUTY ADVISED THAT SOMEBODY HAD TAMPERED WITH THEIR SPRINKLER, CAUSING IT TO ACTIVATE, WHICH THEN DISABLED the FIRE SAFETY SYSTEM ON the WING. the SERGEANT THEN ADVISED THAT THERE WERE ONLY TWO INMATES IN the ROOM IN WHICH the SPRINKLER HAD BEEN SET OFF. the SERGEANT FURTHER ADVISED THAT THEY HAD BEEN HAVING PROBLEMS WITH the DEFENDANT SINCE HE HAD BEEN ARRESTED A FEW DAYS PRIOR. THE SERGEANT STATED THAT THE INMATE HAD BEEN ON SUICIDE WATCH AND HAD BEEN DISRUPTING the WING SINCE HE CAME IN. THE SCENE WAS TURNED OVER TO maintenance PERSONNEL, WHO ADVISED THAT IT WOULD TAKE THEM SEVERAL HOURS TO GET the FIRE SAFETY SYSTEM OPERATIONAL AGAIN. IT SHOULD BE NOTED; INSPECTION OF THE SPRINKLER SYSTEM REVEALED that the METAL CLIP HOLDING THE SAFETY WASHER IN PLACE HAD BEEN MOVED, CAUSING the SPRINKLERS TO ACTIVATE IT. BOTH INMATES WERE TRANSFERRED TO A HOLDING CELL, AT WHICH TIME I BROUGHT THE DEFENDANT INTO THE INTERVIEW ROOM AND MADE CONTACT WITH HIM FIRST. I ASKED THE DEFENDANT WHAT occurred, TO WHICH HE ADVISED THAT HE HAS BEEN ON SUICIDE WATCH FOR SEVERAL DAYS AND WAS BORED. HE FURTHER STATED THAT HE REACHED UP AND PUSHED ON THE METAL PIECE ON the BOTTOM OF the SPRINKLER RESULTING IN THE SPRINKLER BECOMING ACTIVATED AND FLOODING the ENTIRE ROOM. THE DEFENDANT ADVISED THAT HE DID NOT KNOW THAT WOULD CAUSE the SPRINKLER TO ACTIVATE. The DEFENDANT PROVIDED A SWORN statement WHICH WAS LATER TURNED IN TO RECORDS. I THEN SPOKE WITH THE SECOND INMATE, WHO ADVISED THAT HE WAS ON the TELEPHONE IN the CELL SPEAKING WITH HIS WIFE WHEN HE OBSERVED THE DEFENDANT PLAYING WITH the SPRINKLER HEAD. THE DEFENDANT ADVISED that THE SPRINKLER ACTIVATED, STARTLING HIM, AT WHICH TIME HE JUMPED UNDER THE BED BECAUSE HE DID NOT KNOW WHAT WAS SPRAYING OUT OF THE SPRINKLER HEAD. INMATE TWO PROVIDED A WRITTEN STATEMENT AND WAS THEN RELEASED BACK TO MEDICAL DIVISION. THE DEFENDANT WAS TURNED OVER TO BOOKING FOR PROCESSING AND RELEASED BACK TO MEDICAL. THE DEFENDANT'S BOND WAS SET AT $2,000.00 PER THE BOND SCHEDULE. *NOT-EXEMPT* |
