| Probable cause affidavit: |
SUBMITTED BY: TAYLOR, MATTHEW 0400 (AR09107672) did knowingly give false information to a law enforcement officer, to-wit: DEPUTY LABELLE, concerning the alleged commission of a crime, to-wit: ATTEMPTED ABDUCTION, in violation of Florida Statute 837.05(1). ON 021009 AT APPROXIMATELY 0936 HOURS, DEPUTIES OF THIS AGENCY RESPONDED TO 1660 NORTHWEST 19TH STREET, REGARDING AN ATTEMPTED ABDUCTION. AT THAT TIME, DEPUTY LABELLE MADE CONTACT WITH THE DEFENDANT, MS LACEY GHABAYEN, WHO REPORTED TO HIM THAT A WHITE MALE IN A SMALL TAN/CHAMPAGNE COLORED TRUCK ATTEMPTED TO PULL HER INTO THE TRUCK AND ABDUCT HER. SHE STATED THIS OCCURRED AT the CRYSTAL RIVER MALL IN THE AREA OF KMART. AS DEPUTY LABELLE OBTAINED INFORMATION from the VICTIM, THREE OTHER DEPUTIES, PLUS A SERGEANT AND A CORPORAL RESPONDED TO the IMMEDIATE AREA AND BEGAN AN INTENSE SEARCH FOR THE SUSPECT and SUSPECT VEHICLE. AS DEPUTY LABELLE OBTAINED ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FROM THE DEFENDANT, THE DEFENDANT STATED that THE SUSPECT HAD ALLOWED HER TO USE HIS CELLULAR TELEPHONE PRIOR TO THE ATTEMPTED ABDUCTION AND THAT NUMBER SHOULD BE ON HER CALLER IDENTIFICATION AT HER RESIDENCE. THAT INFORMATION WAS FORWARDED TO DETECTIVE ALEXANDER, WHO BEGAN AN INTENSE SEARCH FOR USER INFORMATION. ONCE THAT WAS OBTAINED, THAT INFORMATION WAS FORWARDED TO the CRIME ANALYSIS UNIT WHO THEN BEGAN A DILIGENT SEARCH FOR IDENTIFYING A POSSIBLE SUSPECT and THE WHEREABOUTS OF SAID SUSPECT. UPON A REQUEST OF the PATROL SERGEANT, I RESPONDED TO the DEFENDANT'S RESIDENCE AND BEGAN A IN-DEPTH INTERVIEW with THE DEFENDANT. THE DEFENDANT INFORMED ME WHILE IN THE AREA OF KMART AT THE CRYSTAL RIVER MALL, A WHITE MALE IN A TAN TRUCK APPROACHED HER AND ASKED HER IF SHE WANTED A RIDE. SHE STATED she REPLIED NO AND THAT HE THEN OFFERED HER HIS CELLULAR TELEPHONE. SHE STATED the SUSPECT DIALED THE NUMBER the DEFENDANT REQUESTED HE CALL, WHICH WAS TO HER RESIDENCE. she STATED AS she ATTEMPTED TO RETURN the TELEPHONE, the ALLEGED SUSPECT HAD HIS WINDOW UP AND MOTIONED THE DEFENDANT AROUND TO THE PASSENGER SIDE OF HIS VEHICLE. SHE STATED SHE COMPLIED, WALKED AROUND TO THE PASSENGER SIDE OF THE TRUCK, OPENING THE PASSENGER DOOR AND ATTEMPTED TO HAND THE TELEPHONE TO THE ALLEGED SUSPECT. SHE STATED AT THAT TIME, the SUSPECT ATTEMPTED TO GRAB HER RIGHT ARM AND PULL HER INTO THE TRUCK, STATING THEY HAD TEN MINUTES. DURING THIS INTERVIEW, I ASKED THE DEFENDANT SEVERAL TIMES TO CLARIFY HERSELF DUE TO INCONSISTENCIES OF THE TIME AND THE STATEMENT SHE PROVIDED WAS NOT MAKING SENSE. AFTER COMPLETING THE INTERVIEW, I THEN UTILIZING ANOTHER DETECTIVE, OBTAINED A PHOTO LINE UP OF THE ALLEGED SUSPECT AND SHOWED IT TO THE DEFENDANT. THE DEFENDANT CIRCLED ANOTHER INDIVIDUAL WITHIN THE PHOTO LINE UP, STATING HE WAS THE INDIVIDUALS WHO ATTEMPTED TO ABDUCT HER. I THEN RESPONDED TO THE LAST KNOWN ADDRESS OF THE INDIVIDUAL THE DEFENDANT HAD IDENTIFIED IN THE PHOTO LINE UP AND found THAT INDIVIDUAL HAD NOT BEEN SEEN SINCE 060708 AND WAS LAST KNOWN TO BE RESIDING IN TENNESSEE. I THEN RESPONDED TO AN ADDRESS IN INGLES, which IS THE RESIDENCE OF THE INDIVIDUAL'S WHOSE TELEPHONE NUMBER WAS LOCATED WAS ON THE DEFENDANT'S CALLER IDENTIFICATION, WHICH HAD BEEN RESEARCHED THROUGH CRIME ANALYSIS and DETECTIVE ALEXANDER. UPON MAKING CONTACT with THE ALLEGED SUSPECT, THE ALLEGED SUSPECT PROVIDED ME INFORMATION THAT HE WOULD HAVE NOT HAVE KNOWN IF THE OFFENSE HAD OCCURRED the WAY THE DEFENDANT HAD DESCRIBED. IN ADDITION, THE ALLEGED SUSPECT STATED HE HAD GIVEN THE DEFENDANT A RIDE AND ALLOWED HER TO USE HIS CELLULAR TELEPHONE. HE STATED THE DEFENDANT ALSO STATED SHE WAS NEW TO THE AREA AND LOST AND THAT ALL HE WAS TRYING TO DO WAS HELP HER GET HOME. AFTER SECURING THE ALLEGED SUSPECT'S RESIDENCE, I THEN RESPONDED BACK TO THE DEFENDANT'S RESIDENCE, AND QUESTIONED HER ON the INCONSISTENCIES, AS WELL AS the STATEMENTS PROVIDED TO ME BY THE ALLEGED SUSPECT. the DEFENDANT WAS ADAMANT SHE HAD NOT LIED AND AT THAT TIME I PROVIDED HER the OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE A LIE DETECTION AND TRUTH VERIFICATION EXAMINATION, TO WHICH SHE STATED SHE WOULD. ON 021109, AFTER UTILIZING ANOTHER DETECTIVE TO LOCATE THE DEFENDANT, the DEFENDANT AGREED TO RESPOND TO THE CITRUS COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE (CCSO) OPERATIONS CENTER AT 1000 HOURS. UPON ARRIVAL AT THE CCSO OPERATIONS CENTER, THE DEFENDANT WAS TAKEN TO AN INTERVIEW ROOM AND AGAIN I BEGAN INQUIRING AS TO the INCONSISTENCIES OF HER STATEMENT. THE DEFENDANT LOOKED DOWN AND STATED, "FUCK THIS AND FUCK YOU." AT THAT TIME, THE DEFENDANT ABRUPTLY LEFT THE INTERVIEW ROOM, SUBSEQUENTLY LEAVING THE CCSO OPERATIONS CENTER. APPROXIMATELY TWO HOURS LATER, I RECEIVED CALL FROM the DEFENDANT'S MOTHER, TO REQUEST ANOTHER LIE DETECTION AND TRUTH VERIFICATION EXAM BE SET THE FOLLOWING DAY. ON 021209 AT APPROXIMATELY 1300 HOURS, THE DEFENDANT RESPONDED TO the CCSO OPERATIONS CENTER AND MADE CONTACT WITH DETECTIVE SEFFERN. DURING THE PRE TEST INTERVIEW with THE DEFENDANT, THE DEFENDANT ADMITTED THAT SHE and HER AUNT HAD MADE UP THE ATTEMPTED ALLEGATION, STATING THAT SHE DID ACCEPT A RIDE FROM THE ALLEGED SUSPECT AND USED his CELLULAR TELEPHONE TO CALL HER AUNT. SHE STATED ONCE SHE ARRIVED AT THE CRYSTAL RIVER MALL, THAT THE ALLEGED SUSPECT HAD ASKED HER ABOUT THE TWO OF THEM GETTING TOGETHER, POSSIBLY FOR SEX AND AT THAT TIME, the DEFENDANT EXITED the ALLEGED SUSPECT'S VEHICLE. SHE STATED WHEN SHE TOLD HER AUNT WHAT OCCURRED, HER AUNT STATED THEY NEEDED TO MAKE UP A statement SO THAT THE DEFENDANT'S MOTHER WOULD NOT GET UPSET. SHE FURTHER STATED TO DETECTIVE SEFERN SHE WANTED TO TELL LAW ENFORCEMENT THAT DAY, BUT SHE WAS SCARED. IT SHOULD BE NOTED THROUGHOUT THIS PROCESS, TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION THE DETECTIVES and DEPUTIES INVOLVED, OVER THIRTY EIGHT MAN HOURS WERE UTILIZED IN ATTEMPTING TO SOLVE THIS ALLEGED CRIME. ON 021309, AT APPROXIMATELY 1445 HOURS, I RESPONDED TO THE DEFENDANT'S LOCATION, WHERE I MET WITH the DEFENDANT'S AUNT AND INQUIRED AS TO WHETHER OR NOT SHE and THE DEFENDANT HAD MADE UP THE ABDUCTION STATEMENT, TO WHICH THE AUNT STATED, "WHY THE HELL WOULD I DO THAT, I ONLY REPORTED WHAT SHE TOLD ME" REFERRING TO WHAT THE DEFENDANT HAD STATED. I THEN MADE CONTACT WITH THE DEFENDANT AND INFORMED HER THAT DETECTIVE SEFFERN HAD FORWARDED THE INFORMATION and THE STATEMENT SHE PROVIDED HIM, TO WHICH she STATED, "I WANT TO DROP IT ALL, I CAN'T FUCKING STAND YOU." AT THAT TIME, THE DEFENDANT WAS PLACED UNDER ARREST FOR FILING A FALSE POLICE REPORT AND TRANSPORTED TO THE CITRUS COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY BY DEPUTY M FARMER. THE DEFENDANT'S BOND SET AT $500.00 PER THE BOND SCHEDULE. *NOT-EXEMPT* |
