| Probable cause affidavit: |
SUBMITTED BY: WEST, JAMES 1286 (AR15-15701) DID UNLAWFULLY HAVE IN HIS/HER ACTUAL OR CONSTRUCTIVE POSSESSION WITH THE INTENT TO USE, OR DID UNLAWFULLY USE, AN OBJECT INTENDED OR DESIGNED FOR USE IN STORING, CONCEALING OR INJECTING, INGESTING, INHALING OR OTHERWISE INTRODUCING INTO THE HUMAN BODY, A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE, TO WIT: ONE GLASS MULTICOLORED PIPE, TWO NEEDLES AND A PLASTIC SPOON, IN VIOLATION OF FLORIDA STATE STATUTES 893.147(1). ON 071215, AT APPROXIMATELY 1035 HOURS, I WAS SITTING AT THE STOP SIGN OF WEST YULE DRIVE AND WEST FISHBOWL DRIVE WHEN I OBSERVED A MAROON, 4-DOOR OLDSMOBILE VEHICLE BEARING FLORIDA TAG NUMBER 3297PS TRAVELLING NORTH ON FISHBOWL DRIVE. I OBSERVED the DRIVER OF THIS VEHICLE NOT TO BE WEARING HIS SEAT BELT. I THEN FOLLOWED THE VEHICLE ON WEST FISHBOWL DRIVE AND CONDUCTED A TRAFFIC STOP JUST SOUTH OF SOUTH LE WOODS DRIVE. THE VEHICLE TURNED LEFT ONTO SOUTH LE WOODS DRIVE AND STOPPED APPROXIMATELY 50 YARDS DOWN the ROAD. I APPROACHED the VEHICLE AND ASKED the DRIVER LATER IDENTIFIED AS DEFENDANT JOHN YOUNG FOR HIS DRIVERâS LICENSE, REGISTRATION, and PROOF OF INSURANCE. MR YOUNG ADVISED HE DID NOT HAVE HIS LICENSE WITH HIM. MR YOUNG PROVIDED ME WITH HIS NAME, DATE OF BIRTH, and SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER AS A WAY TO VERIFY HIS IDENTITY. I ASKED the PASSENGER LATER IDENTIFIED AS MR ROBERT MERRITT IF HE HAD HIS IDENTIFICATION, TO WHICH HE ADVISED THAT I HAD CONFISCATED IT ON A PREVIOUS DATE. MR MERRITT PROVIDED ME WITH HIS NAME, DATE OF BIRTH, AND HIS SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER TO VERIFY HIS IDENTITY. I RETURNED TO MY PATROL VEHICLE TO CONFIRM the IDENTITIES OF THE defendantS WHILE DEPUTY WHIRLE STOOD BY NEAR the PASSENGERS DOOR OF the VEHICLE. WHILE IN MY VEHICLE, I OBSERVED MR MERRITT OPEN the PASSENGERS DOOR OF THE VEHICLE SLIGHTLY. DEPUTY WHIRLE THEN BEGAN GIVING COMMANDS TO MR MERRITT NOT TO REACH UNDER the SEAT. DEPUTY WHIRLE THEN REMOVED MR MERRITT FROM the VEHICLE and SECURED HIM IN HANDCUFFS. I RETURNED TO THE DRIVER AND ADVISED HIM TO KEEP HIS HANDS ON the STEERING WHEEL WHERE I COULD SEE THEM. DEPUTY WHIRLE ADVISED ME MR MERRITT HAD OPENED THE PASSENGERS DOOR, REACHED DOWN BETWEEN the DOOR and the PASSENGERS SEAT and BEGAN MOVING A SMALL, BLACK OBJECT. I ASKED MR MERRITT WHAT HE WAS REACHING FOR, TO WHICH HE ADVISED HE HAD A SMALL BLACK CASE, WHICH CONTAINED ââRIGS.ââ IT WAS KNOWN TO ME THAT ââRIGSââ IS A COMMON TERM USED TO IDENTIFY SYRINGES USED TO INJECT INTRAVENOUS NARCOTICS. I HAD MR YOUNG EXIT THE VEHICLE and ASKED IF HE HAD ANYTHING ILLEGAL ON HIS PERSON. MR YOUNG ADVISED ME HE HAD TWO ââRIGSââ IN the FRONT, RIGHT POCKET. HE ADVISED ME THEY WERE CAPPED and WRAPPED UP IN A SOCK. I HANDCUFFED MR YOUNG AND CONDUCTED A SEARCH OF HIS PERSON, TO WHICH I LOCATED A GREEN and BLUE SOCK IN MR YOUNG'S RIGHT POCKET. CONTAINED INSIDE the SOCK WERE TWO SYRINGES AND A PLASTIC SPOON. DEPUTY WHIRLE CONDUCTED A SEARCH OF the VEHICLE AND LOCATED A GLASS MULTICOLORED PIPE COMMONLY USED TO SMOKE MARIJUANA IN the CENTER CONSOLE. I DETECTED the ODOR OF BURNT MARIJUANA ON THE PIPE. MR YOUNG ADVISED the MARIJUANA PIPE BELONGED TO HIM.. I ASKED BOTH DEFENDANTS WHO THE BLACK CLOTH BAG NEXT TO PASSENGERS SEAT BELONGED TO. MR MERRITT ADVISED the CASE WAS HIS. INSIDE THE CASE WAS FOUND FOUR SYRINGES, THREE METAL SPOONS, AND A METAL NAIL FILE. I ASKED THE defendantS WHAT THE SYRINGES WERE USED FOR, TO WHICH THEY BOTH STATED âPILLSâ. I ASKED THEM WHAT KIND OF PILLS THEY DID, TO which MR YOUNG RESPONDED MORPHINE. I INFORMED BOTH DEFENDANTS THEY WERE BEING PLACED UNDER ARREST AT THIS TIME FOR POSSESSION OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIA. BOTH DEFENDANTS WERE SEARCHED and PLACED IN THE REAR OF MY PATROL VEHICLE AND TRANSPORTED TO THE CITRUS COUNTY JAIL FOR PROCESSING. THEIR BOND WAS SET AT $1,000.00 FOR EACH DEFENDANT. THE PARAPHERNALIA WAS COLLECTED AND SUBMITTED IN TO EVIDENCE. DUE TO THE VEHICLE BEING IN A ROADWAY AND THE OWNER NOT ABLE TO BE CONTACTED, IT WAS TOWED. SEE DEPUTY WHIRLEâS SUPPLEMENT. |
