| Probable cause affidavit: |
SUBMITTED BY: HESSE, BRYAN 0755 (AR15-14029) DID UNLAWFULLY, ACTUALLY AND INTENTIONALLY TOUCH OR STRIKE THE VICTIMS AGAINST THEIR WILL OR INTENTIONALLY CAUSE BODILY HARM TO SAID PERSONS, AND IN THE COMMISSION OF SAID BATTERY DID INTENTIONALLY OR KNOWINGLY CAUSE GREAT BODILY HARM, PERMANENT DISABILITY OR PERMANENT DISFIGUREMENT TO SAID PERSON, IN VIOLATION OF FLORIDA STATE STATUTE 784.045(1)(A)(1). ON 022715, AT APPROXIMATELY 0210 HOURS, I RESPONDED TO 7631 WEST RADIANCE LANE, IN HOMOSASSA, IN REFERENCE TO A PHYSICAL DISTURBANCE. UPON ARRIVAL, I OBSERVED A VEHICLE PARKED IN THE ROAD IN FRONT OF THAT RESIDENCE. STANDING BY THAT VEHICLE THERE WERE TWO MALES, MR ERIC BORGERSEN AND MR JEFFREY BRADY, WHO STATED THAT THEY HAD BEEN ATTACKED WITH A BASEBALL BAT. WHILE SPEAKING WITH THEM, I OBSERVED MR BORGERSEN TO HAVE SEVERAL INJURIES TO BOTH OF HIS FOREARMS AND HIS RIGHT HAND, WITH BRUISING AND SEVERE SWELLING. WHILE SPEAKING WITH MR BORGERSEN, I ALSO OBSERVED A FEMALE LAYING NEXT TO THE VEHICLE, LATER IDENTIFIED AS MS ALISHA HOLLAR, WHO WAS SCREAMING AND CRYING INCOHERENTLY. MR BORGERSEN STATED THAT SHE HAD ALSO BEEN STRUCK WITH A BASEBALL BAT. WHEN LOOKING AT MS HOLLAR, I OBSERVED SWELLING AND BRUISING ON HER RIGHT HIP AND BACK AREA, AS WELL AS HER UPPER BACK, CONSISTENT WITH BEING STRUCK WITH A BASEBALL BAT. EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES WAS CONTACTED AND MEDIC 127 LATER ARRIVED ON SCENE. I THEN MADE CONTACT WITH MS ASHLEIGH THORNTON IN FRONT OF HER RESIDENCE. SHE STATED THAT MS HOLLAR AND SHE WERE INVOLVED IN A PHYSICAL ALTERCATION THAT STEMMED FROM PREVIOUS COMMENTS AND THREATS THAT THEY BOTH HAD MADE TO EACH OTHER OVER SOCIAL MEDIA. MS THORNTON STATED THAT THEY WERE FIGHTING IN THE FRONT YARD, WHEN MR BRADY AND MR BORGERSEN GOT OUT OF THE VEHICLE TO BREAK UP THE FIGHT BETWEEN THEM. SHE STATED THAT HER BOYFRIEND/DEFENDANT, MR RICKY HUDGINS, WAS TRYING TO PROTECT HER WHEN HE PICKED UP AN ALUMINUM BASEBALL BAT THAT WAS LAYING IN THE YARD AND STRUCK MS HOLLAR AND MR BORGERSEN SEVERAL TIMES EACH. I THEN SPOKE TO THE DEFENDANT, MR HUDGINS, WHO PROVIDED A WRITTEN STATEMENT, ADVISING THAT MR BORGERSEN AND MR BRADY HAD BEEN THREATENING HIM AND HIS GIRLFRIEND. HE STATED THAT HE WAS IN FEAR FOR HIS GIRLFRIEND AND HIS OWN SAFETY, SO HE HIT MR BORGERSEN AND MS HOLLAR SEVERAL TIMES WITH THE ALUMINUM BASEBALL BAT. MS HOLLAR WAS TRANSPORTED TO OAK HILL; HOWEVER, WHILE EN ROUTE SHE STATED THAT SHE HAD NUMBNESS IN HER LEGS AND FEET, AT WHICH TIME MEDIC 127 UPGRADED HER TO A TRAUMA ALERT AND TRANSPORTED HER TO BAYONET POINT. MR BORGERSEN REFUSED TREATMENT FROM EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES EVEN THOUGH HIS ARM AND HAND WERE MOST LIKELY BROKE. THE BASEBALL BAT WAS COLLECTED AND LATER TURNED IN TO EVIDENCE. MR HUDGINS WAS HANDCUFFED, (DOUBLE LOCKED) BEHIND HIS BACK, AND TRANSPORTED TO THE CITRUS COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY, WHERE HE WAS CHARGED WITH TWO COUNTS OF AGGRAVATED BATTERY, WITH A TOTAL BOND OF $10,000.00, PER THE BOND SCHEDULE. |
