| Probable cause affidavit: |
SUBMITTED BY: LYNN, KURT 0349 (AR08104582) ON 080708 AT 0058 HOURS, THE CITRUS COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE RECEIVED A CALL FROM THE RESIDENTS LOCATED AT 2218 HERCALA LANE IN HERNANDO REFERENCE TO A WHITE MALE SUBJECT POINTING A LOADED FIREARM AT THE SUBJECTS INSIDE THE RESIDENCE. THE SUBJECT STEPPED OUT THE DOOR, TO WHICH THE VICTIMS IMMEDIATELY LOCKED THE DOOR. DURING THIS TIME, THE SUBJECT, LATER IDENTIFIED AS JEFFERY D SCOTT, REMAINED OUTSIDE OF THE RESIDENCE WITH THE FIREARM, WAVING IT AROUND AND PLACING IT IN HIS WAISTBAND. UPON THIS DEPUTY'S ARRIVAL, THE SUBJECT, MR JEFFERY SCOTT, WAS STANDING AT THE FRONT DOOR OF THE RESIDENCE ALONG WITH A VICTIM/WITNESS TO THE INCIDENT. THIS DEPUTY MADE CONTACT WITH THE SUBJECT, WHO STATED THAT HE HAD BEEN HAVING PROBLEMS WITH HIS GIRLFRIEND, WHO WAS IN THE RESIDENCE. AT THAT TIME, CONTACT WAS MADE WITH THE OTHER SUBJECT WHO WAS ACCOMPANYING MR SCOTT. THIS SUBJECT HAD ONE LOADED .45 CALIBER MAGAZINE IN HIS RIGHT FRONT POCKET WITH TEN BULLETS IN THE MAGAZINE. WHEN QUESTIONED WHERE HE HAD OBTAINED THE MAGAZINE AND BULLETS FROM, HE TOLD THIS DEPUTY THAT HE HAD TAKEN HIS OWN HANDGUN, WHICH HAD BEEN SECURED IN THE GLOVE COMPARTMENT OF HIS VEHICLE, FROM MR SCOTT. HE HAD NO IDEA HOW MR SCOTT HAD OBTAINED THE WEAPON; HE THEREFORE REMOVED THE WEAPON FROM MR SCOTT, UNLOADED THE WEAPON, AND TRIED TO CALM MR SCOTT DOWN VERBALLY. AT THAT TIME, THIS DEPUTY CONTACTED THE THREE VICTIMS WHO WERE INSIDE THE RESIDENCE, TO WHICH THEY STATED EARLIER IN THE EVENING MR SCOTT HAD BEEN OVER AT THE RESIDENCE DRINKING WITH THE VICTIMS, WHEN AN ARGUMENT HAD ENSUED AND MR SCOTT HAD LEFT THE RESIDENCE TO GO HOME. MR SCOTT RETURNED A SHORT TIME LATER, KNOCKED ON THE DOOR, AND WAS ALLOWED IN TO THE RESIDENCE BY THE VICTIMS AND THE VICTIM WHO RENTS THE RESIDENCE. UPON LETTING MR SCOTT INTO THE RESIDENCE, ALL THREE VICTIMS OBSERVED WHAT APPEARED TO BE A LARGE CALIBER BLACK SEMI-AUTOMATIC HANDGUN TUCKED INTO THE FRONT WAISTBAND OF MR SCOTT'S SHORTS. MR SCOTT BECAME AGITATED, REMOVED THE FIREARM FROM HIS WAISTBAND, AND POINTED IT AT THE THREE VICTIMS' FACES AND HEADS. HE THEN JOKED THAT THE PISTOL WAS A FAKE AND THEN HE REMOVED THE CLIP, SHOWING THE VICTIMS REAL BULLETS, AND STARTED TO LAUGH. HE THEN WAS CALLED OUTSIDE BY THE OWNER OF THE FIREARM, AT WHICH TIME THE OWNER OF THE FIREARM REMOVED THE WEAPON FROM MR SCOTT. MR SCOTT IS A CONVICTED FELON WHO HAS SERVED TIME IN THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS FOR CONVICTIONS OF BURGLARY OF AN OCCUPIED STRUCTURE AND POSSESSION OF NARCOTICS. THE OWNER OF THE FIREARM PROVIDED A WRITTEN, SWORN STATEMENT THAT HE DID NOT GIVE PERMISSION TO MR SCOTT TO REMOVE THE WEAPON FROM HIS VEHICLE OR HAVE THE WEAPON IN HIS POSSESSION. IT IS UNKNOWN HOW MR SCOTT REMOVED THE FIREARM FROM THE GLOVE COMPARTMENT OF THE HANDGUN OWNER'S VEHICLE. THE THREE VICTIMS IN THE RESIDENCE PROVIDED SWORN STATEMENTS STATING THAT ALL THREE HAD A WEAPON POINTED AT THEIR HEADS AND FACES AND ALL THREE WERE IN FEAR OF THEIR LIVES DUE TO MR SCOTT'S ACTIONS. AT THAT TIME, CONTACT WAS MADE WITH MR SCOTT, WHO WAS READ MIRANDA AND GIVEN AN OPPORTUNITY TO EXPLAIN THE SITUATION TO THIS DEPUTY. MR SCOTT STATED THAT THE WEAPON HE HAD POINTED AT THE THREE SUBJECTS IN THE RESIDENCE WAS A WATER PISTOL, AND HE DENIED KNOWLEDGE OF HAVING A REAL FIREARM IN HIS POSSESSION. DUE TO THE SWORN STATEMENTS OF THE THREE VICTIMS AND THE SWORN STATEMENT OF THE FIREARM OWNER, IT WAS DETERMINED THAT MR SCOTT HAD OBTAINED POSSESSION OF THE FIREARM WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE FIREARM OWNER AND HAD USED IT IN A THREATENING MANNER BY POINTING IT AT THE THREE VICTIMS IN THE INTERIOR OF THE RESIDENCE. MR SCOTT WAS THEN TRANSPORTED TO THE CITRUS COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY. BOND SET PER SCHEDULE. *NOT-EXEMPT* |
