| Probable cause affidavit: |
SUBMITTED BY: SMITH, STEVE 0292 (AR11120939) THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS EXISTING PERMITTED MAINTAINED KEPT OR CAUSED BY AN INDIVIDUAL SHALL CONSTITUTE PRIMA FACIE EVIDENCE OF MAINTAINING A NUISANCE INJURIOUS TO HEALTH UNTREATED OR IMPROPERLY TREATED HUMAN WASTE GARBAGE, IN VIOLATION OF FLORIDA STATE STATUTE 386.041(1)(A), AND IT IS UNLAWFUL FOR ANY PERSON KNOWINGLY TO ABANDON OR DISCARD OR PERMIT TO BE ABANDONED OR DISCARD ON PREMISES UNDER HIS OR HER CONTROL ANY ICE BOX, REFRIGERATOR, CLOTHES DRYER, WASHER, DEEP FREEZER OR SIMILAR AIR TIGHT UNITS HAVING AN INTERIOR STORAGE CAPACITY OF 11/2 CUBIC FEET, TO WIT: TWO CLOTHES DRYERS AND ONE WASHER, IN VIOLATION OF FLORIDA STATE STATUTE NUMBER 823.07(2); AND THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS EXISTING PERMITTED MAINTAINED KEPT OR CAUSED BY AN INDIVIDUAL SHALL CONSTITUTE PRIMA FACIE EVIDENCE OF MAINTAINING A NUISANCE INJURIOUS TO HEALTH UNTREATED OR IMPROPERLY TREATED HUMAN WASTE GARBAGE, IN VIOLATION OF FLORIDA STATE STATUTE 386.041(1)(E). ON 052411, A LAWFUL SEARCH WARRANT WAS EXECUTED AT 7082 WEST POLARIS COURT IN HOMOSASSA. UPON ARRIVAL, ALL THE DEFENDANTS WERE TAKEN INTO CUSTODY. THEY WERE ALL READ A COPY OF THE SEARCH WARRANT BY THIS DEPUTY. THEY WERE THEN ALL READ MIRANDA FROM AN AGENCY PRE-PRINTED CARD. EACH INDIVIDUAL WAS ASKED IF THEY UNDERSTOOD THEIR RIGHTS. THEY ALL ADVISED THAT THEY DID. AT THIS TIME, I CONDUCTED AN INTERVIEW WITH MR MILTON FORD, WHO IS THE PRIMARY HOMEOWNER. IT WAS EXPLAINED TO MR FORD WHY WE WERE AT THE RESIDENCE IN REFERENCE TO THE ILLEGAL MANUFACTURE OF METHAMPHETAMINE, USE OF METHAMPHETAMINE, USE OF PILLS AND HOUSEHOLD NUISANCES. AT THIS TIME, MR FORD ADMITTED THAT HE HAD NUMEROUS PRESCRIPTIONS. HE ALSO ADVISED THAT THE MAJORITY OF THE OTHER DEFENDANTS AT THE RESIDENCE ALSO HAD SCRIPTS AND THERE WAS CONTINUAL USE OF PRESCRIPTION PAIN PILLS MAINLY OXYCODONE. WHEN ASKED WHAT WAS ILLEGAL IN HIS ROOM HE ADVISED NOTHING EXCEPT FOR THERE MIGHT BE A PILL CRUSHER/GRINDER THAT HE USED TO CRUSH HIS OXYCODONE. WHEN ASKED ABOUT THE NUISANCES AT THE RESIDENCE IT WAS EXPLAINED TO HIM THAT WHEN MYSELF AND DEPUTY COX WAS AT THE RESIDENCE ON 051211 IT WAS EXPLAINED TO DEFENDANT MILTON FORD, DEFENDANT JASON FORD, DEFENDANT BUCKY SMITH AND DEFENDANT KEVIN JONES THAT SINCE THEY LIVED AT THE RESIDENCE THESE NUISANCES NEEDED TO BE TAKEN CARE OF. THESE NUISANCES ARE AS FOLLOWS: NUMEROUS AMOUNTS OF HOUSEHOLD GARBAGE, TWO DRYERS, ONE WASHER WHICH STILL HAD THEIR LIDS ON THEM AND ALSO NUMEROUS CONTAINERS CONTAINING WATER WHICH DID HAVE A LARGE QUANTITY OF MOSQUITO LARVAE WHICH WAS CAUSING AN INFESTATION OF MOSQUITOES. DEFENDANT MILTON FORD COULD NOT GIVE AN EXPLANATION AS TO WHY THESE NUISANCES HAD NOT BEEN TAKEN CARE OF. I THEN CONDUCTED AN INTERVIEW WITH DEFENDANT SHANNON JONES. IT WAS EXPLAINED TO HER WHY I WAS AT THE RESIDENCE. A DIGITAL RECORDED STATEMENT WAS CONDUCTED WITH HER. SHE EXPLAINED TO THIS OFFICER THAT SHE ALSO HAS NUMEROUS PRESCRIPTIONS OF PAIN MEDICATION WITH A DOCTOR IN TAMPA. WHEN ASKED IN REFERENCE TO ALL THE PILLS SHE ADVISED SHE HAD GOTTEN HER PRESCRIPTION FILLED A COUPLE OF DAYS AGO OF 150 PILLS. SHE ADVISED SHE HAD LEFT. SHE ADVISED THAT EVERYONE IN THE HOUSE WOULD TRADE THE PILLS AMONGST EACH OTHER. WHEN ASKED WHEN THE LAST TIME WAS SHE HAD USED METH SHE ADVISED A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO. WHEN ASKED HOW SHE USED IT SHE ADVISED THERE WAS A METH PIPE IN HER BEDROOM UNDERNEATH THE MATTRESS. SHE ALSO ADVISED THERE WOULD BE NUMEROUS SYRINGES AND OTHER PARAPHERNALIA ITEMS IN THE ROOM. WHEN ASKED IF SHE SHARED THE ROOM WITH HER HUSBAND, DEFENDANT KEVIN JONES, SHE ADVISED SHE DID. SHE ALSO ADVISED THAT BOTH HER AND HER HUSBAND SHARED THE METH PIPE. A SEARCH OF THIS ROOM DID LEAD TO THE DISCOVERY OF MULTIPLE PARAPHERNALIA ITEMS. IT ALSO LED TO THE DISCOVERY OF THE METH PIPE WHICH THIS DEPUTY RETRIEVED APPROXIMATELY 0.2 GRAMS OF METHAMPHETAMINE OUT OF IT WHICH WILL BE SENT OFF TO "FDLE" FOR TESTING. THIS METH DID TEST POSITIVE AT THE SCENE. UPON COMPLETION OF THE INTERVIEW WITH DEFENDANT SHANNON JONES I THEN CONDUCTED AN INTERVIEW WITH HER HUSBAND DEFENDANT KEVIN JONES. A TAPED RECORDED STATEMENT WAS CONDUCTED WITH DEFENDANT KEVIN JONES. HE ADVISED THAT HE ALSO HAD PRESCRIPTIONS FOR MEDICATION AND THAT THEY DID ALL TRADE PILLS AMONGST THEMSELVES. WHEN CONFRONTED ABOUT THE METH HE ADVISED HE HAD SMOKED METH APPROXIMATELY TWO WEEKS EARLIER. HE ALSO ADMITTED TO USING THE METH PIPE UNDERNEATH THE MATTRESS. HE ALSO ADVISED THERE WOULD BE A LARGE NUMBER OF PARAPHERNALIA INCLUDING SYRINGES IN THE ROOM. HOWEVER, HE ADVISED THAT THE METH THAT HIM AND HIS WIFE USED WAS HOMEMADE METH WHICH DEFENDANT BUCKY SMITH HAD MANUFACTURED AND SOLD THEM. HE WAS THEN ASKED IF HE HAD BEEN PURCHASING PSEUDOEPHEDRINE, TO WHICH HE ADVISED HE HAD APPROXIMATELY 2 WEEKS AGO. HE WENT WITH DEFENDANT BUCKY SMITH, AT WHICH TIME, HE PURCHASED PSEUDOEPHEDRINE. WHEN ASKED WHAT HE DID WITH THIS BOX HE ADVISED THAT HE HAD BEEN PROMISED REIMBURSEMENT BY DEFENDANT BUCKY SMITH IF HE WOULD GIVE HIM THE BOX OF PSEUDOEPHEDRINE TO DEFENDANT BUCKY SMITH. HE FURTHER ADVISED THAT LAST NIGHT HE HAD PURCHASED A BOX OF PSEUDOEPHEDRINE AND HE AND DEFENDANT BUCKY SMITH WERE HAVING AN ARGUMENT IN REFERENCE TO THIS BOX. IT SHOULD ALSO BE NOTED THAT UPON DEFENDANT KEVIN JONES BEING TAKEN INTO CUSTODY HE DID HAVE IN HIS POSSESSION PSEUDOEPHEDRINE PILLS IN HIS POCKET. THE PSEUDOEPHEDRINE PILLS, WHICH WERE LOCATED IN HIS POCKET, IT IS BELIEVED BY THIS DEPUTY THAT THEY WERE TO BE USED IN THE MANUFACTURING OF METHAMPHETAMINE; THEREFORE, AMONGST HIS OTHER CHARGES DEFENDANT KEVIN JONES WAS CHARGED WITH POSSESSION OF A LISTED CHEMICAL. UPON THE COMPLETION OF THIS INTERVIEW, I THEN MADE CONTACT WITH DEFENDANT JASON FORD. DEFENDANT FORD ADVISED THIS DEPUTY HE KNEW NOTHING ABOUT WHAT WAS GOING ON A THE HOUSE NOTHING. AT THAT TIME DEFENDANT JASON FORD WAS ARRESTED IN REFERENCE TO THE NUISANCE VIOLATIONS THAT HAD ALSO BEEN POINTED OUT TO HIM ON THE 051211 BY MYSELF AND DEPUTY COX. AT THIS TIME, I MADE CONTACT WITH DEFENDANT MELISSA FORD. DURING HER INTERVIEW DEFENDANT MELISSA FORD ALSO ADVISED THAT THERE WAS NOTHING GOING ON, SHE HAD NO KNOWLEDGE OF ANYTHING. UPON THE COMPLETION OF THE INTERVIEW WITH MELISSA FORD AN INTERVIEW WITH DEFENDANT BUCKY SMITH WAS CONDUCTED, WHO ALSO ADVISED HE KNEW NOTHING ABOUT ANYTHING. A SEARCH OF DEFENDANT MELISSA FORD AND DEFENDANT BUCKY SMITH'S ROOM DID LEAD TO THE DISCOVERY OF A CAN OF COLEMAN FUEL, A CONTAINER OF LIQUID FIRE, NUMEROUS LITHIUM BATTERIES, A PILL GRINDER, WHICH DID HAVE A WHITE RESIDUE WHICH TESTED POSITIVE FOR PSEUDOEPHEDRINE. ALSO FOUND WAS A SMALL AMOUNT OF MARIJUANA. A CONTAINER OF ACETONE WAS ALSO LOCATED IN THEIR ROOM. A SMALL LOCK BOX WAS LOCATED IN THE ROOM. UPON ASKING DEFENDANT BUCKY SMITH WHERE THE KEY WAS HE GAVE THE LOCATION OF THE KEY WHICH WAS IN HIS ROOM WHICH OPENED THE BOX. INSIDE THIS BOX WAS TRACE AMOUNTS OF METHAMPHETAMINE AND A DIGITAL SCALE. ALL OF THE CHEMICALS WHICH WERE RECOVERED IN HIS ROOM ARE USED IN THE MANUFACTURING OF METHAMPHETAMINE/ONE POT METHOD. ON THE EXTERIOR OF THE HOUSE THIS DEPUTY WAS ABLE TO LOCATE A SMALL GAS CAN WHICH APPEARED TO HAVE BEEN USED AS A GAS GENERATOR, PLASTIC TUBING, AND A BOTTLE OF MURIATIC ACID. ALSO IN THE GARBAGE PILE BURN PIT WERE SEVERAL CANS OF ETHER OR BRAKE CLEANER, WHICH HAD BEEN PUNCTURED AT THE BOTTOM TO REMOVE THE LIQUID. THERE WERE ALSO SEVERAL BATTERY CASINGS FROM LITHIUM BATTERIES WHICH HAD BEEN CUT OPEN AND THE LITHIUM REMOVED. DUE TO THE CO-DEFENDANT'S TESTIMONY AS WELL AS THE SUDAFED PURCHASED BY DEFENDANT MELISSA FORD AND DEFENDANT BUCKY SMITH AS WELL AS ALL THE CHEMICALS FOUND IN THEIR ROOM THEY WERE CHARGED WITH MANUFACTURE OF METHAMPHETAMINE, POSSESSION OF A LISTED CHEMICAL, POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA, POSSESSION OF METHAMPHETAMINE AND POSSESSION OF PARAPHERNALIA. DEFENDANT BUCKY SMITH WAS ALSO CHARGED WITH THE NUISANCES DUE TO HIM BEING ADVISED BY MYSELF AND DEPUTY COX ON THE 12TH THAT THE NUISANCES NEEDED TO BE CLEANED UP. ALL ITEMS WHICH WERE NOT RELATED TO THE MANUFACTURE PROCESS WERE PHOTOGRAPHED AND TURNED IN TO EVIDENCE. ALL OTHER ITEMS RELATED TO THE METH MANUFACTURE WERE PHOTOGRAPHED AND TURNED OVER TO THE LANDFILL AS HAZARDOUS MATERIAL. ALL DEFENDANTS WERE PLACED UNDER ARREST AND TRANSPORTED TO THE CITRUS COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY FOR BOOKING AND PROCESSING. THEIR BONDS WERE SET ACCORDING TO THE BOND SCHEDULE. "If you are a person with a disability who needs any accommodation in order to participate in this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact the ADA Coordinator at the Office of the Trial Court Administrator, Citrus County Courthouse, 110 North Apopka Avenue, Inverness, Florida 34450, Telephone (352) 341-6700, at least 7 days before your scheduled court appearance, or immediately upon receiving this notification if the time before the scheduled appearance is less than 7 days; if you are hearing or voice impaired, call 711.” *NOT-EXEMPT* |
