| Probable cause affidavit: |
submitted by: BEETOW, CHARLES 0295 (AR 15-16032) (15-104470) ROBBERY, MEANS OF TAKING OF MONEY OR OTHER PROPERTY WHICH MAY BE THE SUBJECT OF LARCENY FROM THE PERSON OR CUSTODY OF ANOTHER, WITH THE INTENT TO EITHER PERMANENTLY OR TEMPORARILY DEPRIVE THE PERSON OR THE OWNER OF THE MONEY OR OTHER PROPERTY, WHEN IN THE COURSE OF TAKING THERE IS A USE OF FORCE, VIOLENCE, ASSAULT, OR PUTTING IN FEAR, IN THE COURSE OF THE ROBBERY THE DEFENDANT DID NOT CARRY A FIREARM, DEADLY WEAPON, OR OTHER WEAPON, IN VIOLATION OF FLORIDA STATE STATUTE 812.13(2)(C). ON 081015, AT APPROXIMATELY 0950 HOURS, I WAS DISPATCHED TO THE SUNTRUST BANK, LOCATED 2001 HIGHWAY 44 WEST, INVERNESS. WHILE EN-ROUTE, DISPATCH ADVISED that the SUSPECT WAS A WHITE FEMALE, HEADING WESTBOUND, WEARING DARK JEANS, A SWEATER, AND A BALL CAP. UPON ARRIVAL AT THE SCENE, CONTACT WAS made WITH THE BANK TELLER. HE ADVISED THAT AT APPROXIMATELY 0924 HOURS, A FEMALE WEARING DARK PANTS, AN AZTEC OR INDIAN PRINT SWEATER, WHITE SHIRT, AN FSU BALL CAP, AND DARK BROWN SUNGLASSES WALKED IN TO THE BANK CARRYING A WHITE OR LIGHT COLOR VINYL OR LEATHER PURSE. THE TELLER FURTHER DESCRIBED THE SUSPECT AS BEING APPROXIMATELY FIVE FEET TO FIVE FEET FOUR INCHES WITH A STOCKIER BUILD. THE TELLER STATED that WHILE HE WAS ON HIS TELLER LINE FACING THE DRIVE THRU, HE NOTICED THE FEMALE WALKING IN FROM THE FRONT DOOR. AS SHE WALKED to the TELLER LINE, HE WALKED to the WINDOW TO ASSIST HER. SHE REMOVED A THIN WHITE PIECE OF PAPER FROM HER PURSE AND SLID IT TO HIM UNDER THE GLASS PARTITION. THE TELLER ADVISED THAT HE RECALLED SEEING the WORDS ''GIVE ME THE MONEY FROM THE TOP DRAWER AND SIDE VAULT. NO DYE PACKS. COOPERATE and NOBODY WILL GET HURT.'' AT THIS TIME, WHILE HE WAS READING the NOTE, THE SUSPECT ASKED HIM SEVERAL TIMES FOR the NOTE BACK. AFTER THE SECOND TIME, HE BECAME NERVOUS AND SLID THE NOTE BACK TO HER UNDER THE GLASS PARTITION. AFTER SLIDING THE NOTE BACK, THE TELLER WALKED TO HIS DRAWER AND REMOVED ALL THE MONEY. THE MONEY IN HIS DRAWER RANGED FROM SINGLES TO $100.00 BILLS. WITHIN THIS CURRENCY WAS APPROXIMATELY $120.00 IN MUTILATED CURRENCY. THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF CURRENCY TAKEN WAS $1,344.00. AFTER GIVING THE SUSPECT THE MONEY, SHE PLACED THE CASH IN HER PURSE, WALKED OUT OF THE FRONT DOOR, AND HEADED IN A WESTERLY DIRECTION. HE ADVISED THE SUSPECT CONTINUED WALKING WESTBOUND PARALLELING HIGHWAY 44 WEST. AFTER COLLECTING THIS INFORMATION, CONTACT WAS MADE WITH SUNTRUST BANK SECURITY COORDINATOR, MR HERB LORENZ. MR LORENZ WAS ABLE TO PROVIDE COPIES OF THE DVD SHOWING THE ENTIRE INCIDENT. MULTIPLE ANGLES WERE ALSO PUT on the DVD. AFTER REVIEWING THE VIDEO, the WEIGHT OF THE SUSPECT WAS ESTIMATED AT APPROXIMATELY 150 POUNDS. ANOTHER "BOLO" WAS ISSUED FOR THE SUSPECT WITH THE UPDATED INFORMATION. CONTACT WAS MADE WITH CRIME INTELLIGENCE. THIS DESCRIPTION WAS PROVIDED TO THEM IN WHICH THEY WERE ABLE TO POST THE IMAGES OF THE SUSPECT ON SOCIAL MEDIA IN AN ATTEMPT TO OBTAIN FURTHER INFORMATION BASED ON THE PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS. THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON, NUMEROUS LEADS WERE POSTED THROUGH CRIMINAL INTELLIGENCE, E-MAILS, AND SOCIAL MEDIA. ON 081115, NUMEROUS OTHER TIPS HAD COME TO THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE THROUGH E-MAIL AND SOCIAL MEDIA. ALL TIPS WERE THOROUGHLY INVESTIGATED. ONE NAME THAT WAS REPORTED TO THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA WAS THE NAME OF MS ELLEN KING. SEVERAL TIPS ADVISED THAT THE SUBJECT IN the VIDEO HAD A STRIKING SIMILARITY TO THE SUSPECT DUE TO THEIR KNOWLEDGE OF HER. IT WAS ALSO REPORTED THAT A PHOTOGRAPH THAT WAS POSTED ON FACEBOOK BY SUSPECT SHOWS her WEARING THE SAME TYPE OF FSU HAT. ON 081215, CONTACT WAS MADE WITH SUSPECT AT HER PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT. SUSPECT WAS ASKED IF WE COULD SPEAK WITH HER IN REFERENCE TO THIS CASE. SHE ADVISED SHE WAS WILLING TO SPEAK WITH US. THE SUSPECT CHOSE THE OFFICE IN WHICH SHE WISHED TO SPEAK WITH US. WHILE SPEAKING WITH SUSPECT, SHE WAS ADVISED to the NATURE OF OUR INVESTIGATION, WHICH SHE STATED she UNDERSTOOD. AFTER EXPLAINING WE HAD RETRIEVED EVIDENCE FROM WITHIN THE BANK, NUMEROUS INTELLIGENCE UPDATES, AND SOCIAL MEDIA TIPS, SHE BEGAN TO BREAK DOWN AND ADVISED SHE HAD ROBBED THE SUNTRUST BANK. SHE FURTHER STATED that SHE IS IN FINANCIAL TROUBLE AND BEHIND ON NUMEROUS BILLS. SHE ADVISED THAT HER BANK ACCOUNTS HAVE BEEN OVERDRAWN AND SHE WAS DESPERATE. SHE VOLUNTARILY and FURTHER STATED that ON 081015, SHE DROPPED HER DOG OFF AT A GROOMING KENNEL. AFTER LEAVING THE KENNEL, SHE DROVE TO INVERNESS MEDICAL IMAGING, WHICH IS LOCATED ON THE SAME SIDE OF THE STREET AND JUST WEST OF SUNTRUST BANK. SHE ADVISED she WROTE A GENERAL NOTE ON TISSUE PAPER ADVISING THAT SHE WANTED THE MONEY OUT OF THE TOP DRAWER AND SIDE VAULT. she HAD ALSO PUT IN THE NOTE, NO DYE PACK, NO ONE WILL GET HURT. AFTER the TELLER HANDED HER THE MONEY, SHE HURRIEDLY WALKED BACK TO WHERE HER CAR WAS PARKED. AFTER LEAVING INVERNESS MEDICAL IMAGING, SHE THEN WENT BACK TO HER RESIDENCE. AT APPROXIMATELY 1415 HOURS, AFTER SUSPECT HAD PICKED UP HER DOG FROM THE GROOMER, SHE TRAVELED TO CAPITAL CITY BANK AND DEPOSITED $650.00. AFTER MAKING THIS DEPOSIT, SHE WENT BACK HOME AND DROPPED THE DOG OFF. AT APPROXIMATELY 1750 HOURS SHE WENT BACK OUT AND TRAVELED TO WELLS FARGO BANK. AT THIS TIME, SHE DEPOSITED $865.00. DUE TO THE DIFFERENT AMOUNTS FROM THE REPORTED STOLEN MONEY AND the MONEY DEPOSITED IN HER ACCOUNTS, THE SUSPECT ADVISED SHE USED APPROXIMATELY $185.00 OF HER OWN MONEY INCLUDING THE STOLEN MONEY FOR THE DEPOSITS. SUSPECT FURTHER STATED THAT SHE HAD DESTROYED APPROXIMATELY $10.00 OF THE MUTILATED MONEY AT HER RESIDENCE. THE MUTILATED MONEY WAS DESCRIBED AS SEVERAL $2.00 AND $1.00 BILLS. AFTER MAKING THE SECOND DEPOSIT, SHE ADVISED SHE RETURNED HOME. ON 081115, SUSPECT ADVISED SHE STAYED HOME FROM WORK DUE TO ILLNESS. AT APPROXIMATELY 0715 HOURS, SUSPECT HAD BAGGED HER AZTEC PRINT SWEATER, SUNGLASSES, TAN PURSE, AND THE REMNANTS OF THE BURNED FSU HAT INTO A GARBAGE BAG ALONG WITH HOUSEHOLD GARBAGE. AFTER THROWING THE BAG IN THE DUMPSTER BEHIND HER PLACE OF BUSINESS, SHE RETURNED HOME AND LAID DOWN. ON 081115, APPROXIMATELY 0830 HOURS, OFFICERS FROM THE CITRUS COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE STOPPED BY SUSPECT'S RESIDENCE AND ASKED SEVERAL GENERAL QUESTIONS. SUSPECT ADVISED she DID NOT COME OUT AND OPENLY ADMIT ANYTHING TO THE OFFICERS OUT OF FEAR OF SHAMING HER FATHER. SHE ADVISED SHE ALSO HAD THE IMPRESSION that SHE LOOKED NOTHING LIKE THE FEMALE IN the VIDEO. ON 081215 DETECTIVE BERGEN AND I RESPONDED TO SUSPECT'S PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT AND THE SUSPECT AGREED TO SPEAK WITH US. AT THAT TIME, SHE FELT IT WAS BEST TO TELL the TRUTH AND ADMIT WHAT SHE HAD DONE. SHE IMMEDIATELY STATED THE CLOTHES SHE HAD WORN WERE IN A BLACK GARBAGE BAG LOCATED IN the DUMPSTER BEHIND HER PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT. AFTER INTERVIEWING SUSPECT, I ADVISED HER that SHE WAS BEING PLACED UNDER ARREST. SHE WAS THEN HANDCUFFED (DOUBLE LOCKED) BEHIND HER BACK AND PLACED IN THE REAR OF MY PATROL VEHICLE. AFTER RETRIEVING the BAG FROM the DUMPSTER, IT WAS DISCOVERED, WITHIN THE BAG, AN AZTEC PRINT LONG SLEEVE SWEATER, DARK BROWN SUNGLASSES, TAN PURSE AND FSU HAT. ALSO LOCATED NEXT TO the BALL CAP WERE REMAINS OF BURNED $2.00 BILLS and WHAT APPEARED TO BE A BURNED $1.00 BILL. THE SUSPECT ADVISED SHE HAD BURNED THE CURRENCY IN HER HAT WHILE AT HER RESIDENCE. SHE ADVISED SHE HAD BURNED THE CURRENCY IN HER HAT WHICH WAS IN THE SHOWER IN AN ATTEMPT TO DESTROY the BALL CAP. THE SUSPECT WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE CITRUS COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY WHERE SHE WAS BOOKED, PROCESSED, AND HELD ON A $15,000.00 BOND PER THE BOND SCHEDULE. |
