| Probable cause affidavit: |
SUBMITTED BY: SMITH, STEVE 0292 (AR14-13147) ANY PERSON WHO KNOWINGLY SELLS, PURCHASES, MANUFACTURES, DELIVERS OR BRINGS INTO THIS STATE OR WHO IS KNOWINGLY IN ACTUAL OR CONSTRUCTIVE POSSESSION OF 200 GRAMS OR MORE OF METHAMPHETAMINE IS GUILTY OF A FELONY OF THE FIRST DEGREE, WHICH FELONY SHALL BE KNOWN AS TRAFFICKING IN METHAMPHETAMINE, AND SUCH PERSON SHALL BE SENTENCED TO A MANDATORY MINIMUM OF 15 YEARS, IN VIOLATION OF FLORIDA STATE STATUTE 893.135(1)(F). DID UNLAWFULLY AND FELONIOUSLY SELL, MANUFACTURE OR DELIVER OR POSSESS WITH INTENT TO SELL, MANUFACTURE OR DELIVER OR CAUSE TO BE SOLD, MANUFACTURED OR DELIVERED TO ANOTHER PERSON, A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE, TO WIT: METHAMPHETAMINE, IN VIOLATION OF FLORIDA STATE STATUTE 893.13(1)(A)(1). DID UNLAWFULLY HAVE IN HIS 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: BOTTLES AND OTHER CONTAINERS, IN VIOLATION OF FLORIDA STATE STATUTE 893.147(1). ON 121214, I received A PHONE CALL FROM PATROL WHO ADVISED THAT THEY HAD RESPONDED TO 4524 NORTH PINE DRIVE, IN HERNANDO, IN REFERENCE TO AN ARGUMENT. PATROL ADVISED THAT UPON THEIR ARRIVAL AND KNOCKING ON THE DOOR, THERE WAS SMOKE COMING OUT OF THE VENT PIPE FROM THE BATHROOM AND AN OVER POWERING SMELL OF CHEMICALS COMING FROM INSIDE THE RESIDENCE. AT THAT TIME, DEPUTIES ADVISED THE HOME OWNER, MR TONY JACOBS, THAT THEY BELIEVED THE RESIDENCE WAS ON FIRE DUE TO THE SMOKE AND THE CHEMICAL SMELL BEING SO STRONG, WHICH ALMOST PREVENTED DEPUTIES FROM MAKING ENTRY IN TO THE RESIDENCE. UPON REQUESTING THE HOME OWNER OUTSIDE, MR JACOBS ADVISED THAT THERE WAS AN ADDITIONAL FEMALE INSIDE THE BATHROOM. AT THAT TIME, DEFENDANT JACOBS AND DEFENDANT MARY SMITH WERE ADVISED TO EXIT THE RESIDENCE. DEPUTIES THEN MADE ENTRY IN TO THE RESIDENCE, WHERE THEY MADE CONTACT WITH DEFENDANT, MS KIMBERLY ADCOCK, AND HAD HER EXIT THE RESIDENCE ALSO. AT THAT TIME, DEPUTIES REQUESTED FIRE TO RESPOND CODE 2, AND THEY NOTIFIED ME, DUE TO THE OVER POWERING CHEMICAL SMELL, WHICH WAS DUE TO THE MANUFACTURING OF METHAMPHETAMINE. IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT I AM FAMILIAR WITH ALL THREE DEFENDANTS AND I HAVE HAD AN ONGOING INVESTIGATION ON DEFENDANT ADCOCK AND DEFENDANT SMITH FOR AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME. NOT ONLY HAVE I HAD PRIOR EXPERIENCE WITH THEM, BUT CONTINUE TO receive CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE INFORMATION IN REGARDS TO THEM MANUFACTURING METHAMPHETAMINE AND IT IS ALSO KNOWN THAT THEY BOTH CONTINUE TO PURCHASE EPHEDRINE AND THE CHEMICALS KNOW TO MANUFACTURE METHAMPHETAMINE UPON MY ARRIVAL, I FIRST MADE CONTACT WITH DEFENDANT JACOBS. DEFENDANT JACOBS WAS READ HIS MIRANDA WARNING, VIA AN AGENCY ISSUED PREPRINTED MIRANDA CARD, TO WHICH HE STATED HE UNDERSTOOD HIS RIGHTS AND WISHED TO SPEAK TO ME. HE GAVE ME VERBAL CONSENT TO SEARCH HIS RESIDENCE. HE FURTHER ADVISED THAT HE WAS THE ONLY ONE THAT LIVED AT THE RESIDENCE AND OF THE OTHER DEFENDANTS RESIDED THERE. DEFENDANT JACOBS ALSO ADVISED ME THAT HE BELIEVED THAT THE OTHER TWO DEFENDANTS HID A BACK PACK ON TOP OF THE HOT WATER HEATER IN HIS BEDROOM AND THERE WAS POSSIBLY SOMETHING UNDERNEATH THE SINK IN THE BATHROOM. AT THAT TIME, FIRE PERSONNEL AND I MADE ENTRY IN TO THE RESIDENCE IN PROTECTIVE GEAR. THE RESIDENCE HAD METHAMPHETAMINE MANUFACTURING ITEMS THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE RESIDENCE. IN THE BATHROOM, THERE WAS A ONE POT METHAMPHETAMINE COOK, WHICH APPEARED TO HAVE RECENTLY BEEN DUMPED OUT. IT IS BELIEVED BY THIS DEPUTY, THE CHEMICAL REACTION OF THE ONE POT BEING DUMPED OUT IN THE BATHROOM CAUSED THE SMOKE. UPON CHECKING THE HOT WATER HEATER IN THE BEDROOM CLOSET, A BACK PACK WAS OBSERVED. UPON REMOVING THAT BACK PACK, A ONE POT METHAMPHETAMINE COOK WAS UNDER IT. THIS ONE POT COOK WAS FRESH. IT WAS DECIDED AT THAT TIME, TO GEAR UP AND MAKE THIS ONE POT SAFE. WHILE I WAS HANDLING THE ONE POT, THERE WAS NUMEROUS BAGS LOADED WITH METHAMPHETAMINE GARBAGE, LOCATED IN THE BACKYARD THROWN IN THE WOOD LINE. ALL OF THE METHAMPHETAMINE WASTE WAS RECOVERED AND COLLECTED. A THOROUGH SEARCH OF THE RESIDENCE WAS CONDUCTED. ALL OF THE METHAMPHETAMINE WASTE, CHEMICALS, AND DRUG PARAPHERNALIA WAS PHOTOGRAPHED, TESTED, AND COLLECTED. THE ONE POT THAT WAS COLLECTED UNDERNEATH THE BACK PACK IN THE MASTER BEDROOM CONTAINED 246 GRAMS OF METHAMPHETAMINE OIL, ALSO A SECONDARY CONTAINER WAS LOCATED IN THE RESIDENCE, WHICH CONTAINED 248 GRAMS OF METHAMPHETAMINE OIL. NUMEROUS RECEIPTS WERE COLLECTED FOR THE PURCHASE OF EPHEDRINE AND THE CHEMICALS USED IN THE MANUFACTURING PROCESS. AT THE TIME THAT THE THREE DEFENDANTS WERE TAKEN IN TO CUSTODY, DEFENDANT SMITH HAD A RECEIPT IN HER FRONT RIGHT POCKET FOR THE PURCHASE OF LYE, WITH TODAYâS DATE (121214) ON IT FROM ACE HARDWARE, IN INVERNESS. AT THAT TIME, I CONDUCTED AN INTERVIEW WITH DEFENDANT SMITH, WHERE I READ HER MIRANDA WARNING, VIA AN AGENCY PREPRINTED MIRANDA CARD, TO WHICH SHE STATED SHE UNDERSTOOD HER RIGHTS AND WISHED TO SPEAK TO ME. DEFENDANT SMITH ADVISED that DEFENDANT JACOBS HAD CALLED HER WANTING HELP IN THE MANUFACTURING PROCESS, SO SHE WENT TO HIS RESIDENCE TO ASSIST HIM. SHE ACKNOWLEDGED THAT SHE HAD BEEN PURCHASING EPHEDRINE, BUT SHE STATED THAT IT WAS FOR HER PERSONAL USE. WHEN ASKED IF SHE HAD PURCHASED ANY CHEMICALS, SHE ADVISED SHE HAD NOT. WHEN I CONFRONTED HER AND TOLD HER I KNEW SHE HAD BEEN PURCHASING CHEMICALS, SHE ADMITTED TO PURCHASING LIQUID FIRE. DEFENDANT SMITH ADVISED THAT SHE WOULD TAKE FULL responsibility OF THE ENTIRE METHAMPHETAMINE LAB AS LONG AS DEFENDANT ADCOCK COULD GO FREE. I THEN CONDUCTED AN INTERVIEW WITH DEFENDANT ADCOCK, WHERE I READ HER MIRANDA WARNING, VIA AN AGENCY PREPRINTED MIRANDA CARD, TO WHICH SHE STATED SHE UNDERSTOOD HER RIGHTS AND WISHED TO SPEAK TO ME. DEFENDANT ADCOCK ADVISED THAT SHE DID NOT KNOW ANYTHING AND SHE HAD JUST RECENTLY ARRIVED AT THE RESIDENCE. SHE ADVISED THAT WHEN THE DEPUTIES ARRIVED SHE WAS IN THE BATHROOM. SHE FURTHER STATED THAT SHE DID NOT NOTICE ANY SMOKE AND SHE DID NOT SMELL ANYTHING. I CONDUCTED ANOTHER INTERVIEW WITH DEFENDANT JACOBS, WHO ADMITTED TO USING METHAMPHETAMINE FOR THE PAST SIX MONTHS. HE FURTHER ADVISED THAT DEFENDANT ADCOCK AND DEFENDANT SMITH HAD MANUFACTURED METHAMPHETAMINE AT HIS RESIDENCE APPROXIMATELY FORTY TO FIFTY TIMES. HE ADVISED THAT THEY WOULD GIVE HIM AROUND TWENTY-FIVE TO FORTY DOLLARS WORTH OF DOPE IF HE ALLOWED THEM TO MANUFACTURE THE METHAMPHETAMINE. HE ADVISED THAT HE HAD ASSISTED THEM WITH THE MANUFACTURING PROCESS. WHEN ASKED IF HE WOULD BE ABLE TO CONDUCT A COOK, HE ADVISED THAT HE KNEW ALL OF THE STEPS; HOWEVER, HE WAS SCARED TO TRY. DEFENDANT JACOBS ADVISED THAT HE HAD BEEN BUYING EPHEDRINE APPROXIMATELY THREE TIMES A MONTH FOR THE PAST SIX MONTHS FOR DEFENDANT SMITH TO MANUFACTURE. WHEN ASKED WHERE THE MANUFACTURING NORMALLY OCCURRED, HE ADVISED IN THE LIVING ROOM, THE KITCHEN, THE BATHROOM, AND SOMETIMES IN HIS BEDROOM. DEFENDANT JACOBS ADVISED THAT HIS FINGER PRINTS WOULD PROBABLY BE ON SOME OF THE ITEMS. HE ALSO ADVISED THAT THE MARIJUANA AND THE FOUR PILLS IN HIS ROOM BELONGED TO HIM. ALL HAZARDOUS MATERIALS WERE COLLECTED, MADE SAFE, AND LATER TURNED IN TO THE CITRUS COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE METHAMPHETAMINE CONTAINER UNIT FOR DESTRUCTION. ALL OTHER ITEMS WERE TURNED IN TO EVIDENCE. ALL THREE DEFENDANTS WERE PLACED UNDER ARREST, HANDCUFFED (DOUBLE LOCKED) BEHIND THEIR BACKS, AND TRANSPORTED TO THE CITRUS COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY FOR BOOKING AND PROCESSING. DEFENDANT SMITHâS BOND WAS SET AT $21,000.00, PER THE BOND SCHEDULE. DEFENDANT ADCOCKâS BOND WAS SET AT $21,000.00, PER THE BOND SCHEDULE. DEFENDANT JACOBSâS BOND WAS SET AT $2,000.00, PER THE BOND SCHEDULE. |
