| Probable cause affidavit: |
SUBMITTED BY: REID, JUSTIN 0706 (AR16-18783 \t\t\tYERBURY, CHAD 1244 DID UNLAWFULLY AND KNOWINGLY TAKE, OBTAIN OR USE OR ENDEAVOR TO TAKE, OBTAIN OR USE THE PROPERTY OF VICTIM, WAL-MART SUPER CENTER, TO WIT: TWO ITEMS OF CHILDREN SLEEPWEAR VALUED AT $26.30, BY CARRYING AWAY THE SAID MERCHANDISE, WITH INTENT TO TEMPORARILY OR PERMANENTLY DEPRIVE, A MERCHANT, OF THE POSSESSION, USE, BENEFIT, OR FULL RETAIL VALUE OF SAID PROPERTY, SAID PROPERTY BEING OF A VALUE OF LESS THAN $300.00, IN VIOLATION OF FLORIDA STATE STATUTE 812.014(3)(A) RETAIL. ON 032416, AT APPROXIMATELY 1445 HOURS, I WAS DISPATCHED TO THE WAL-MART SUPER CENTER AT 2461 EAST GULF TO LAKE HIGHWAY IN INVERNESS, IN REFERENCE TO RETAIL PETIT THEFT. UPON ARRIVAL, I MADE CONTACT WITH LOSS PREVENTION, MR JOE COMPOSTELLA, WHO STATED THAT HE had A MALE SUBJECT DETAINED IN THEIR LOSS PREVENTION OFFICE THAT THEY HAD OBSERVED ACTING SUSPICIOUS WHILE inSIDE the STORE. THE MALE WAS LATER IDENTIFIED AS THE CO-DEFENDANT, MR JEROMY BRESLER. THE COMPLAINANT ADVISED HE HAD OBSERVED THE MALE UNDER FLOOR SURVEILLANCE SELECT SEVERAL ITEMS THROUGHOUT the STORE and CONCEAL THEM ON HIS PERSON. HE THEN PROCEEDED TO the FRONT OF the STORE and EXISTED the STORE CROSSING ALL POINTS OF SALE WITHOUT ANY ATTEMPT TO PAY FOR THE MERCHANDISE. HE WAS THEN DETAILED BY LOSS PREVENTION OUTSIDE THE STORE and ESCORTED BACK TO THE LOSS PREVENTION OFFICE UNTIL LAW ENFORCEMENT'S ARRIVAL. LOSS PREVENTION STATED THERE WAS A SECOND FEMALE SUBJECT WHO WAS OBSERVED WAITING OUTSIDE NEXT TO THEIR LINCOLN TOWN CAR and had ENTERED the STORE SEVERAL TIMES APPEARING TO LOOK FOR THE MALE SUBJECT. THE FEMALE SUBJECT WAS LATER IDENTIFIED AS THE DEFENDANT, MS SHEILA SURRENA. LOSS PREVENTION STATED THE DEFENDANT HAD WALKED BACK TO THEIR VEHICLE WHERE DEPUTY REID, LOSS PREVENTION, AND I APPROACHED HER. DURING OUR INVESTIGATION, DEFENDANT SURRENA ADMITTED TO ALSO SHOPLIFTING FROM WAL-MART SUPER CENTER IN INVERNESS taking A CHILD'S NIGHT TIME TEE-SHIRT and SHORTS CONCEALING THEM IN HER WHITE PURSE AND EXITING the STORE WITHOUT PAYING FOR THEM and PLACING THEM IN HER VEHICLE. THE CHILDREN'S NIGHT TIME SHIRT AND SHORTS WERE FOUND IN the REAR OF DEFENDANT SURRENA'S VEHICLE. AT THAT POINT, LOSS PREVENTION THEN OBSERVED VIDEO SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE OF DEFENDANT SURRENA SELECTING THE ITEMS AND CONCEALING THEM IN HER BAG and THEN LEAVING the STORE PASSING ALL POINTS OF SALE AND NOT ATTEMPTING TO PAY FOR THE ITEMS. AT THAT TIME, I DETAINED DEFENDANT SURRENA AND CO-DEFENDANT BRESLER. I ADVISED THEM THEY WERE BOTH UNDER ARREST FOR RETAIL PETIT THEFT. THEY WERE HANDCUFFED (DOUBLE LOCKED) AND PLACED IN THE REAR OF MY PATROL VEHICLE WHERE THEY WERE TRANSPORTED TO the CITRUS COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY FOR BOOKING and PROCESSING. LOSS PREVENTION PROVIDED ME WITH A RECEIPT PRINTOUT OF ALL ITEMS TAKEN BY CO-DEFENDANT BRESLER AND DEFENDANT SURRENA. THEY ALSO PROVIDED ME WITH TWO SEPARATE DVD'S CONTAINING VIDEO SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE OF EACH DEFENDANT IN the ACT OF THEIR CRIME. THE COMPLAINANT ALSO PROVIDED ME WITH A SWORN, WRITTEN STATEMENT. THE STATEMENT, ALONG WITH the TWO RECEIPT PRINTOUTS, WAS LATER TURNED IN TO RECORDS. the TWO DVD'S WERE TURNED IN TO EVIDENCE. THE COMPLAINANT WAS PROVIDED WITH AN AGENCY CASE CARD BEARING MY NAME AND THIS CASE NUMBER. BOTH CO-DEFENDANT BRESLER AND DEFENDANT SURRENA WERE CHARGED with ONE COUNT RETAIL PETIT THEFT WITH THEIR BONDS SET AT $500.00, PER THE BOND SCHEDULE. |
