| Probable cause affidavit: |
SUBMITTED BY: PATTERSON, DEREK 0560 (AR09111725) (0572) (0351) UNLAWFULLY, WILLFULLY AND WITHOUT AUTHORIZATION USED OR POSSESSED WITH THE INTENT TO FRAUDULENTLY USE, THE PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION OF ANOTHER WITHOUT FIRST OBTAINING THAT INDIVIDUAL'S CONSENT, IN VIOLATION OF FLORIDA STATE STATUTE 817.568(2)(A) ON 110209, I WAS DISPATCHED TO CITRUS MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM (CMH) LOCATED AT 502 WEST HIGHLAND BOULEVARD IN INVERNESS IN REFERENCE TO A PATIENT WHO WAS ATTEMPTING TO REGISTER UNDER ANOTHER PATIENT'S NAME. UPON ARRIVAL, I MADE CONTACT WITH WITNESS TWO, THE TRIAGE NURSE, WHO ADVISED THAT A MALE HAD ATTEMPTED TO REGISTER AT THE HOSPITAL AS MR THORSTEN HASS BUT THAT HE HAD DIFFICULTY RECALLING BASIC INFORMATION SUCH AS HIS DATE OF BIRTH OR HIS SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER. WITNESS TWO RETRIEVED MR HASS' MEDICAL RECORDS INCLUDING A PHOTO COPY OF MR HASS' DRIVER'S LICENSE AND RECOGNIZED THAT THE MALE WHO WAS ATTEMPTING TO REGISTER WAS NOT THE SAME INDIVIDUAL. I MADE CONTACT WITH THE VICTIM, WHO WAS AT HOME, WHO STATED HE HAD NOT AUTHORIZED ANYONE TO USE HIS NAME. THE VICTIM CONTINUED THAT HE DID NOT KNOW WHO MADE THE ATTEMPT TO REGISTER AS HIM. DEPUTY HAY RESPONDED TO THE RESIDENCE AND OBTAINED A WRITTEN STATEMENT FROM THE VICTIM. AT THAT TIME, HOSPITAL STAFF CONTACTED ME STATING THE MALE WAS IN THE TREATMENT AREA OF THE HOSPITAL AND HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO LEAVE AFTER RECEIVING BASIC TREATMENT. I ENTERED THE EMERGENCY ROOM AREA AND MADE CONTACT WITH MR JOHN DOE, WHO WITNESS TWO POINTED OUT AS BEING THE INDIVIDUAL WHO HAD REGISTERED AS MR THORSTEN HASS. WHEN I INFORMED MR DOE THAT I WAS THERE TO DETERMINE WHAT WAS GOING ON, MR DOE STATED HIS ACTUAL NAME WAS MR ART HASS AND THAT HE HAD REGISTERED AS MR THORSTEN HASS. MR DOE CONTINUED THAT HE HAD DONE SO BECAUSE HE WAS TOLD BY A DEPUTY PREVIOUSLY THAT HE WOULD BE ARRESTED IF HE DID NOT USE THAT NAME. I ONCE AGAIN MADE CONTACT WITH WITNESS TWO WHO STATED WHEN MR DOE HAD INITIALLY COME IN TO REGISTER, SHE ASKED HIS NAME, AT WHICH TIME HE REPLIED "THEY TELL ME I'M THORSTEN HASS." SHE ASKED IF HE WAS IN FACT THORSTEN HASS, TO WHICH HE REPLIED "THAT'S WHAT THEY TELL ME." WHEN SHE ASKED FOR HIS DATE OF BIRTH, MR DOE REPLIED HE DID NOT KNOW. WHEN PRESSED, MR DOE REVEALED THAT IT WAS 021545. WITNESS TWO STATED THAT AT NO TIME DID HE REVEAL HIS ACTUAL NAME WAS MR ART HASS. I PROCEEDED TO MAKE CONTACT WITH THE ADMISSIONS CLERK/WITNESS ONE, WHO HAD ADMITTED MR DOE. SHE STATED MR DOE CONTINUED TO REGISTER WITH HER AS MR THORSTEN HASS AND THAT AT NO TIME DID HE IDENTIFY HIMSELF TO HER AS MR ART HASS. MR DOE WAS THEN READ HIS MIRANDA WARNINGS VIA CARD, TO WHICH HE STATED HE UNDERSTOOD HIS RIGHTS AND DESIRED TO SPEAK TO ME REGARDING THIS CASE. HE STATED HE HAD BEEN TRESPASSED FROM WAL-MART RECENTLY AND THAT THE DEPUTY WHO HAD TRESPASSED HIM HAD TOLD HIM HE NEEDED TO IDENTIFY HIMSELF AS MR THORSTEN HASS. A PS-NET CHECK REVEALED THAT THE TRESPASS WARNING WHICH HAD BEEN ISSUED TO MR DOE UNDER THE NAME OF MR THORSTEN HASS WAS ISSUED BY DEPUTY C PHILLIPS. I MADE CONTACT WITH DEPUTY C PHILLIPS WHO RECALLED MR DOE IDENTIFYING HIMSELF TO HIM AS MR ART HASS BUT THAT HE WAS UNABLE TO LOCATE MR ART HASS IN PS-NET, FCIC/NCIC, OR "D.A.V.I.D.". HE CONTINUED THAT MR DOE WAS WEARING AN IDENTIFICATION BRACELET FROM SEVEN RIVERS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER WHICH IDENTIFIED HIM AS MR THORSTEN HASS WHICH DEPUTY PHILLIPS BELIEVED TO BE MR DOE. MR DOE DENIED CHECKING INTO SEVEN RIVERS UNDER THE NAME OF MR THORSTEN HASS. I ONCE AGAIN MADE CONTACT WITH THE VICTIM WHO STATED HE HAD LAST BEEN AT SEVEN RIVERS OVER A YEAR AGO. DEPUTY MELHADO RESPONDED TO SEVEN RIVERS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER AND WAS ABLE TO DETERMINE THAT SOMEONE HAD CHECKED INTO THE HOSPITAL ON 101609 UNDER THE NAME OF MR THORSTEN HASS WHICH WAS THE SAME DAY THAT DEPUTY PHILLIPS HAD OBSERVED THE SEVEN RIVERS IDENTIFICATION BRACELET ON MR DOE. CONTACT WAS MADE WITH DETECTIVE KANTER AND MS JULIA METTS OF THE STATE ATTORNEY'S OFFICE FOR COUNSEL, REGARDING THIS CASE, AFTER MR DOE WAS PLACED UNDER ARREST FOR THE CRIMINAL USE OF ANOTHER'S IDENTIFICATION. WHILE MR DOE WAS WALKING OUT OF THE HOSPITAL, HE BEGAN TO EXPERIENCE CHEST PAINS AND WAS SUBSEQUENTLY ADMITTED TO THE HOSPITAL. NIGHT SHIFT REMAINED AT THE HOSPITAL WITH MR DOE DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT PS-NET, FCIC/NCIC, "D.A.V.I.D.", AND CRIMINAL HISTORY CHECKS FAILED TO ASSIST IN DETERMINING WHETHER THE NAME PROVIDED BY MR DOE, MR ART HASS, WAS IN FACT A CORRECT AND LEGAL NAME AND MR DOE HAD NO TYPE OF IDENTIFICATION ON HIM. ADDITIONALLY, THE ADDRESS PROVIDED BY MR DOE WHEN HE REGISTERED AT THE HOSPITAL (2906 FOREST RIDGE BOULEVARD IN HERNANDO) WAS NOT A VALID ADDRESS PER DEPUTY HUNTER WHO ATTEMPTED TO LOCATE THE RESIDENCE. DURING CONVERSATION AT THE HOSPITAL, MR DOE CONVERSED WITH ME REGARDING LEGAL PRINCIPLES SUCH AS WRITS OF REPLEVIN AND REPOSSESSIONS AS WELL AS CASE LAW REGARDING ROE VERSUS WADE. HE ADDITIONALLY RECALLED PRIOR ENCOUNTERS WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT BOTH RECENTLY AS WELL AS IN THE 1960S AND 1970S AS WELL AS OTHER EVENTS DURING HIS LIFETIME. HOWEVER, WHEN MR DOE WAS ASKED ABOUT HIS SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER, PLACE OF BIRTH, OR OTHER BASIC INFORMATION, HE REPLIED THAT HE HAD DEMENTIA AND COULD NOT REMEMBER. THE WRIST BAND WHICH HAD BEEN ON MR DOE'S ARM IDENTIFYING HIM AS MR THORSTEN HASS WAS SUBMITTED TO EVIDENCE. WHILE AT THE HOSPITAL, DETECTIVE SPIDDLE CONTACTED ME REGARDING THIS CASE. HE ADVISED HE HAD OBTAINED FINGERPRINTS FROM MR DOE AND THAT MR DOE HAD BEEN ARRESTED IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA UNDER THE NAME OF "MR ARNOLD HASHER" WITH A DATE OF BIRTH OF 071035; UNDER THE NAME OF "MR MARK GREEN" WITH A DATE OF BIRTH OF 100735; AND UNDER THE NAME OF "MR ART HASS." DETECTIVE SPIDDLE ADDED THAT THIS INFORMATION WAS OBTAINED FOR FLORIDA ONLY AND THAT MR DOE MAY HAVE ADDITIONAL ARRESTS ELSEWHERE IN THE UNITED STATES UNDER OTHER NAMES BUT THAT INFORMATION WAS UNKNOWN AT THIS TIME. SINCE ONE OF THE NAMES THAT WAS GIVEN, ARNOLD HASHER, CURRENTLY HAS A FLORIDA IDENTIFICATION CARD, ID NUMBER H260-000-35-250-0 ASSOCIATED WITH IT, I MADE CONTACT WITH LISA EMPLOYEE ID 9575, OF THE CRYSTAL RIVER DRIVER'S LICENSE OFFICE. LISA STATED THAT SHE RECALLED MR DOE RECEIVING AN IDENTIFICATION CARD FROM THEIR OFFICE AND THAT IT WAS APPROVED BY THE DIRECTOR'S OFFICE SINCE MR DOE DID NOT HAVE ANY TYPE OF IDENTIFICATION WITH HIM WHEN HE MADE THAT ATTEMPT. AT THIS TIME IT WAS UNKNOWN AS TO MR DOE'S ACTUAL IDENTITY. MR DOE WAS SUBSEQUENTLY MEDICALLY CLEARED FROM CITRUS MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM AND TRANSPORTED TO THE CITRUS COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY BY DEPUTY THEN FOR BOOKING AND PROCESSING. MR DOE WAS HELD ON NO BOND, SINCE HE WAS BEING CHARGED AS AN UNKNOWN PERSON UNDER THE NAME "JOHN DOE.” *NOT-EXEMPT* |
