| Probable cause affidavit: |
SUBMITTED BY: CALLAHAN, CRAIG 0643 (AR13-4375) DID UNLAWFULLY HAVE IN HER ACTUAL OR CONSTRUCTIVE POSSESSION A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE, TO WIT: COCAINE WITH A TOTAL PACKAGE WEIGHT OF APPROXIMATELY ONE GRAM, IN VIOLATION OF FLORIDA STATE STATUTE 893.13(6)(A), AND DID UNLAWFULLY HAVE IN HER 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: CHOIRBOY, SCISSORS AND A LIGHTER, IN VIOLATION OF FLORIDA STATE STATUTES 893.145 AND 893.147(1). ON 020413 AT APPROXIMATELY 1851 HOURS, I WAS TRAVELLING SOUTHBOUND ON SOUTH WADSWORTH AVENUE IN BEVERLY HILLS. UPON DOING SO I OBSERVED GOLD IN COLOR 4-DOOR CADILLAC ALSO TRAVELLING SOUTHBOUND ON WADSWORTH AVENUE. UPON THE VEHICLE APPROACHING THE INTERSECTION IT FAILED TO COME TO A COMPLETE STOP AT the STOP SIGN AND PROCEEDED TO TRAVEL WESTBOUND ON ROSE AVENUE FAILING TO USE A TURN SIGNAL. THE VEHICLE THEN TURNED SOUTH ON SOUTH WASHINGTON STREET WHERE I ACTIVATED MY EMERGENCY EQUIPMENT AND CONDUCTED A TRAFFIC STOP ON SOUTH WASHINGTON IN THE AREA OF HOOVER STREET. UPON EXITING MY VEHICLE I ALSO OBSERVED THAT THE VEHICLEâS TAG WAS HANGING FROM THE VEHICLE AND NOT PROPERTY AFFIXED TO THE VEHICLE. I THEN MADE CONTACT WITH THE DRIVER/CO-DEFENDANT, MS CYNTHIA SEXTON, AND THE FRONT SEAT PASSENGER, DEFENDANT SALIMA SIBBLIES. UPON DOING SO, I REQUESTED MS SEXTONâS DRIVERâS LICENSE and REGISTRATION, BOTH OF WHICH SHE WAS ABLE TO PROVIDE ME. WHILE SPEAKING WITH MS SEXTON IT WAS OBVIOUS THAT she WAS NERVOUS AND FIDGETING THOUGH HER PURSE, WHICH WAS PLACED NEXT TO HER in the FRONT SEAT. DUE TO BOTH SEXTON AND SIBBLIES NERVOUS BEHAVIORS I ASKED BOTH IF THEY WOULD MIND STEPPING OUT OF THE VEHICLE, AT WHICH TIME THEY DID SO. UPON DOING SO, I OBSERVED A SMALL AMOUNT OF CHOIRBOY HANGING OUT OF DEFENDANT SABBLIES' RIGHT POCKET, WHICH IS KNOWN TO ME TO BE CONSISTENT WITH SMOKING CRACK COCAINE. UPON ASKING MS SIBBLIES FOR PERMISSION TO SEARCH HER PERSON SHE ADVISED I COULD. UPON DOING SO I ALSO LOCATED A LIGHTER AND A PAIR OF SCISSORS IN MS SIBBLIESâ LEFT, FRONT POCKET WHICH IS ALSO CONSISTENT WITH BEING USED TO CUT PIECES OF THE CHOIRBOY IN ORDER TO PLACE THEM IN A CRACK PIPE. UPON ASKING THEM IF THEY USE NARCOTICS MS SIBBLIES DENIED SMOKING CRACK, HOWEVER MS SEXTON ADVISED THAT SHE STARTED SMOKING CRACK APPROXIMATELY TWO DAYS AGO. A SHORT TIME LATER, CANINE DEPUTY DEARDEN ARRIVED ON SCENE WHERE AN EXTERIOR STIFF WAS CONDUCTED USING CANINE TYSON, WHICH WAS MET WITH NEGATIVE RESULTS. I THEN RETURNED MS SEXTON HER INFORMATION AND ADVISED HER THAT she would RECEIVE VERBAL WARNINGS FOR THE INFRACTIONS. PRIOR TO BOTH OCCUPANTS LEAVING the SCENE I AGAIN MADE CONTACT WITH MS SEXTON WHERE SHE VOLUNTARILY PROVIDED CONSENT TO SEARCH HER VEHICLE. UPON DOING SO I LOCATED A YELLOW PRESCRIPTION PILL BOTTLE WITH A PRESCRIPTION FOR MS CYNTHIA SEXTON. UPON OPENING the BOTTLE I LOCATED A CELLOPHANE WRAPPER WHICH CONTAINED A SMALL AMOUNT OF BROWN DRIED MUSHROOMS. I IMMEDIATELY IDENTIFIED THE MUSHROOMS THROUGH MY TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE TO BE THAT OF PSILOCYBIN, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS âSHROOMSâ. UPON OBSERVING THESE ITEMS CONTACT WAS AGAIN MADE WITH MS SEXTON. She WAS DETAINED IN HANDCUFFS. BOTH MS SEXTON AND MS SIBBLIES WERE THEN READ THEIR MIRANDA RIGHTS VIA A PRE PRINTED AGENCY ISSUED CARD. BOTH WAIVED THEIR RIGHTS and ADVISED THEY WISHED TO SPEAK with ME. UPON SPEAKING WITH MS SEXTON SHE ADMITTED THAT THE MUSHROOMS WERE INDEED âSHROOMSâ and THEY HAD BEEN GIVEN TO HER BY A FRIEND. I THEN CONTINUED TO SEARCH the VEHICLE WHERE I LOCATED A PINK IN COLOR EYEGLASS CASE SITTING ON THE FRONT PASSENGER SEAT OF VEHICLE WHERE DEFENDANT SIBBLIES HAD BEEN PREVIOUSLY SEATED. UPON doing SO I NOTICED A CLEAR CELLOPHANE WRAPPER WHICH CONTAINED A WHITE, CHUNKY SUBSTANCE WHICH WAS IMMEDIATELY IDENTIFIED BY ME TO BE THAT OF CRACK COCAINE. FURTHERMORE, THE SUBSTANCE WAS LATER FIELD TESTED POSITIVE FOR THE PRESENCE OF COCAINE. I THEN AGAIN MADE CONTACT WITH DEFENDANT SEXTON WHO ADVISED ME THAT SHE and DEFENDANT SIBBLIES HAD JUST PURCHASED the CRACK FOR A FRIEND WHO LIVES IN INGLIS. MS SEXTON ADVISED THAT the TRANSACTION HAD BEEN CONDUCTED BY MS SIBBLIES, HOWEVER SHE HAD KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRANSACTION AND THAT the COCAINE WAS IN the VEHICLE AS she HAD VOLUNTARILY DRIVEN MS SIBBLIES TO THE DEALER IN ORDER TO PURCHASE the NARCOTICS FOR $60.00. FURTHERMORE DEFENDANT SEXTON ADVISED THAT THE EYEGLASS HOLDER WHICH CONTAINED THE COCAINE BELONGED TO HER and she WAS AWARE THAT THIS WAS WHERE MS SIBBLIES HAD PLACED THE CRACK COCAINE PRIOR to the TRAFFIC STOP. CONTACT WAS THEN MADE with MS SIBBLIES AND UPON SPEAKING TO HER SHE DENIED HAVING PURCHASED THE COCAINE. SHE ADVISED ME FURTHER THAT MS SEXTON HAD PURCHASED IT, HOWEVER SHE DID HAVE knowledge OF THE PURCHASE AND THE FACT THAT THE COCAINE WAS INSIDE THE VEHICLE. FURTHERMORE, MS SIBBLIES COULD NOT EXPLAIN AS TO WHY THE COCAINE WAS ON HER SIDE OF THE VEHICLE OR WHY SHE WAS IN POSSESSION OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIA CONSISTENT WITH THAT OF COCAINE USE. AT THAT TIME, DEFENDANT SIBBLIES WAS ALSO PLACED IN HANDCUFFS BEHIND the BACK AND BOTH WERE ADVISED THAT THEY WERE BEING PLACED UNDER ARREST FOR THE ABOVE LISTED CHARGES. BOTH DEFENDANTS WERE THEN TRANSPORTED TO THE CITRUS COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY WHERE DEFENDANT SEXTONâS BOND WAS SET AT $10,000.00 PER THE BOND. MS SIBBLIESâ BOND WAS SET AT $5,500.00 PER THE BOND SCHEDULE. ALL NARCOTICS AND DRUG PARAPHERNALIA WERE LATER PACKAGED AND TURNED IN TO EVIDENCE. MS SEXTONâS VEHICLE WAS SECURED AND LEFT AT SCENE PER HER REQUEST. |
