| Probable cause affidavit: |
SUBMITTED BY: REID, JUSTIN 0706 (AR13-4442) DID UNLAWFULLY COMMIT BATTERY UPON THE VICTIM (MR JAMES BENNIS, JR) BY ACTUALLY AND INTENTIONALLY TOUCHING OR STRIKING SAID PERSON AGAINST SAID PERSON'S WILL, OR BY INTENTIONALLY CAUSING BODILY HARM, TO WIT: PUNCHED THE VICTIM IN THE LEFT EYE WITH A CLOSED FIST AND SPIT ON HIM, IN VIOLATION OF FLORIDA STATE STATUTE 784.03(1)(A)(1); AND DID UNLAWFULLY COMMIT BATTERY UPON THE VICTIM (MS CHRISTINA BENNIS) BY ACTUALLY AND INTENTIONALLY TOUCHING OR STRIKING SAID PERSON AGAINST SAID PERSON'S WILL, OR BY INTENTIONALLY CAUSING BODILY HARM, TO WIT: GRABBED THE VICTIM BY HER HEAD AND SLAMMED HER FACE INTO A TABLE, IN VIOLATION OF FLORIDA STATE STATUTE 784.03(1)(A)(1). UNLAWFULLY ENDANGER THE SAFETY OF ANOTHER OR THEIR PROPERTY WHILE INTOXICATED OR DID WHILE INTOXICATED OR DRINKING AN ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE IN A PUBLIC PLACE CAUSE A PUBLIC DISTURBANCE, IN VIOLATION OF FLORIDA STATE STATUTE NUMBER 856.011. ON 021013 AT APPROXIMATELY 0251 HOURS, I WAS DISPATCHED TO 2380 NW HIGHWAY 19 IN CRYSTAL RIVER, WHICH IS the DENNYâS restaurant, IN REFERENCE TO A PHYSICAL DISTURBANCE IN PROGRESS. UPON MY ARRIVAL, I MADE CONTACT WITH THE COMPLAINANT/WITNESS, MR WILLIAM CASON, WHO IS THE MANAGER OF DENNYâS RESTAURANT. HE SAID AT APPROXIMATELY 0230 HOURS TWO INTOXICATED LADIES CAME INTO THE RESTAURANT and SAT AT BOOTH NUMBER 12. HE SAID THE OLDER OF THE TWO INTOXICATED LADIES WHO WAS LATER IDENTIFIED AS THE DEFENDANT WAS BEING VERY LOUD AND CAUSING A DISTURBANCE. HE SAID HE WAS COOKING WHEN HIS SERVER CAME UP TO HIM AND TOLD HIM THERE WAS A PROBLEM OUT in the FRONT LOBBY AT TABLE NUMBER THREE. THE SERVER TOLD HIM THAT THE DEFENDANT WAS YELLING AT THE PEOPLE WHO WERE SITTING AT THAT TABLE WHO WERE LATER IDENTIFIED AS VICTIM ONE, MS CHRISTINA BENNIS AND VICTIM TWO, MR JAMES BENNIS. HE SAID WHEN HE STARTED OUT TO the TABLE HE REACHED THE FRONT CASH REGISTER and OBSERVED THE DEFENDANT âHACK THE YOUNG LADY SITTING AT TABLE NUMBER THREE.â HE SAID IT LOOKED LIKE THE DEFENDANT GRABBED VICTIM ONE BY THE HEAD AND THEN SLAMMED HER HEAD ONTO the TABLE CAUSING A CUT TO VICTIM ONEâS TOP LIP. HE SAID THE DEFENDANT THEN THREW HER PURSE AT the VICTIMS SITTING AT the TABLE. HE SAID VICTIM TWO, WHO WAS LATER IDENTIFIED AS VICTIM ONEâS HUSBAND, PUSHED THE DEFENDANT AWAY FROM HIS WIFE. HE SAID THEN BOTH VICTIMS GOT UP AND WENT BEHIND the FRONT COUNTER TO GET AWAY FROM THE DEFENDANT, BUT THE DEFENDANT CONTINUED AFTER THEM. HE SAID VICTIM TWO PUSHED THE DEFENDANT AWAY FROM HIS WIFE ONCE AGAIN CAUSING THE DEFENDANT TO FALL DOWN. THE DEFENDANT AND THE OTHER INTOXICATED WOMAN THAT WAS WITH THE DEFENDANT BOTH LEFT THE DENNYâS RESTAURANT AND STARTED TO WALK TOWARDS THEIR HOTEL ROOM WHICH WAS AT the HOLIDAY INN THAT IS CONNECTED TO the DENNYâS RESTAURANT. HE SAID THAT HE FOLLOWED the TWO INTOXICATED LADIES TO THEIR ROOM WHICH WAS ROOM NUMBER 150 SO HE COULD TELL the SHERIFFâS OFFICE OF THEIR LOCATION. I THEN MADE CONTACT WITH VICTIM TWO, MR JAMES BENNIS. HE STATED THAT HE AND HIS WIFE, VICTIM ONE, WERE AT DENNYâS RESTAURANT EATING BREAKFAST AND MINDING their OWN BUSINESS. HE SAID the DEFENDANT WHO THEY HAVE NEVER MET BEFORE IN THEIR LIFE STARTED ARGUING WITH THEM ABOUT A FOOTBALL GAME. HE SAID the DEFENDANT CALLED HIM EVERY NAME THAT WAS POSSIBLE. HE SAID THE THEN TOLD THE DEFENDANT TO LEAVE US ALONE AND THAT WAS WHEN THE DEFENDANT PUNCHED HIM IN HIS LEFT EYE AND SPIT ON HIM. HE SAID AFTER the DEFENDANT SPIT ON HIM HE THREW HIS DRINK ON HER. AFTER HE THREW HIS DRINK ON the DEFENDANT THE DEFENDANT STARTED HITTING HIM MULTIPLE TIMES AND THAT WAS WHEN HIS WIFE, VICTIM ONE, STOOD UP TO TRY AND BREAK THEM APART. HE SAID THE DEFENDANT THEN ATTACKED HIS WIFE BY SLAMMING HER HEAD INTO the TABLE AND HE SAID AFTER IT WAS BROKE UP SHE CONTINUED TO HARASS THEM and THEN LEFT. I THEN made CONTACT with VICTIM ONE, MS CHRISTINA BENNIS. SHE STATED THAT THE DEFENDANT WHO SHE HAS NEVER MET BEFORE IN HER LIFE WAS BEING VERY LOUD AND ARGUING WITH HER AND HER HUSBAND FOR NO REASON. SHE SAID THAT the DEFENDANT STARTED TO HIT HER HUSBAND SO SHE GOT UP TO TRY AND SPLIT THE DEFENDANT and HER HUSBAND APART. SHE SAID the DEFENDANT THEN GRABBED HER BY the HAIR AND THREW HER FACE INTO A TABLE CAUSING A CUT ON HER TOP LIP. AT THAT TIME I DID ASK VICTIM ONE and TWO IF THEY NEEDED EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES (EMS) TO RESPOND IN REFERENCE TO THEIR INJURIES. THEY BOTH REFUSED MEDICAL TREATMENT. I THEN MADE CONTACT with THE DEFENDANT, MS RHONDA HOSKINS, IN HER HOTEL ROOM NUMBER 150. MS HOSKINS WAS SITTING ON HER HOTEL BED WITH THE HOTEL ROOM DOOR WIDE OPEN. THE SECOND INTOXICATED WOMAN WHO WAS STAYING WITH the DEFENDANT WAS YELLING AT the DEFENDANT ABOUT HER BEHAVIOR WHEN I ARRIVED. THE DEFENDANT IMMEDIATELY WALKED OUT OF THE HOTEL ROOM WITHOUT ANY INCIDENT AND ADVISED THAT SHE HAD NOTHING TO SAY. THE DEFENDANT WAS THEN ADVISED SHE WAS BEING PLACED UNDER ARREST FOR TWO COUNTS OF SIMPLE BATTERY AND DISORDERLY INTOXICATION. SHE WAS HANDCUFFED (DOUBLE LOCKED) BEHIND HER BACK and PLACED IN THE REAR OF MY PATROL VEHICLE. THE DEFENDANT WAS THEN AND TRANSPORTED TO THE COUNTY JAIL FOR BOOKING AND PROCESSING. HER TOTAL BOND WAS SET AT $1,150.00 PER the BOND SCHEDULE. THIS DEPUTY DID OBSERVE MINOR LACERATIONS TO the DEFENDANTâS LEFT AND RIGHT KNUCKLES WHICH CORROBORATED WITH THE VICTIMSâ AND COMPLAINANT/WITNESS STATEMENT. THE WITNESS and THE TWO VICTIMS ALL FILLED OUT and SIGNED SWORN WRITTEN STATEMENTS WHICH WERE LATER TURNED IN TO RECORDS. CRIME SCENE TECHNICIAN (CST) DEPUTY CLAUDE (0602) ARRIVED ON SCENE AND PHOTOGRAPHED the VICTIMSâ INJURIES, WHICH WAS LATER TURNED IN TO EVIDENCE. |
