| Probable cause affidavit: |
SUBMITTED BY: REYNOLDS, CONNARY 1267 (AR14-10103) DID UNLAWFULLY ENTER OR REMAIN IN A CERTAIN STRUCTURE OR CURTILAGE THEREOF, TO-WIT: 2082 SOUTH OVERVIEW DRIVE IN LECANTO FLORIDA, THE COUNTY AND STATE AFORESAID, THE PROPERTY OF VICTIM, WITHOUT SAID PERSON'S CONSENT, WITH THE INTENT TO COMMIT AN OFFENSE THEREIN, TO-WIT: PETIT THEFT, IN VIOLATION OF FLORIDA STATUTE 810.02(1) AND 810.02(3)(B), AND DID UNLAWFULLY AND KNOWINGLY TAKE, OBTAIN OR USE OR ENDEAVOR TO TAKE, OBTAIN OR USE THE PROPERTY OF THE VICTIM, TO WIT: ONE GRAY SAFE WITH BLACK LABEL AND YELLOW PUSH BUTTONS CONTAINING AN UNKNOWN AMOUNT OF CASH VALUED AT APPROXIMATELY $80.00, 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 STATUTES 812.015, 812.014(1), AND 812.014(3)(A). ON 042714, AT APPROXIMATELY 1232 HOURS, I WAS DISPATCHED TO 2082 SOUTH OVERVIEW DRIVE IN LECANTO, IN REFERENCE TO A SUSPICIOUS INCIDENT. WHILE EN ROUTE, DISPATCH ADVISED THAT A GRAY OR TAN JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE HAD STOPPED IN FRONT OF A HOME WHERE TWO YOUNG MALES EXITED the JEEP WEARING BANDANAS AND GLOVES. THE TWO MALES THEN ENTERED the BACKYARD OF THE ABOVE RESIDENCE. THEY ALSO ADVISED THE CALLER HAD SEEN THEM WITH A BLACK BACKPACK WHICH APPEARED TO BE EMPTY AND UPON RETURNING FROM the RESIDENCE THE BACKPACK APPEARED TO BE FULL. THE VEHICLE THEN LEFT TOWARDS HOMOSASSA TRAIL. THE VEHICLE WAS DESCRIBED TO BE AN OLDER MODEL JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE WITH A POSSIBLE SOUTH CAROLINA TAG. WHILE EN ROUTE TO the SCENE, I WAS DRIVING MY MARKED VEHICLE SOUTHBOUND ON SOUTH ROCK CRUSHER ROAD WHERE I OBSERVED AN OLDER MODEL GRAY JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE WITH A SOUTH CAROLINA TAG BEARING NUMBER HLK584. I ALSO OBSERVED this VEHICLE TO BE OCCUPIED BY FOUR SUBJECTS, THE DRIVER BEING A WHITE MALE LATER IDENTIFIED AS DEFENDANT TWO JORDAN LYNNE BROWN, THE FRONT PASSENGER LATER IDENTIFIED AS WITNESS TWO LESLIE ANDERSON, REAR RIGHT PASSENGER LATER IDENTIFIED AS DEFENDANT ONE STACEY FITZGERALD JONES, AND REAR LEFT PASSENGER LATER IDENTIFIED AS DEFENDANT KEITH PATRICK HENDRY, WHO I AM FAMILIAR with AND HAS PROBABLE CAUSE TO ARREST IN REFERENCE TO A SEPARATE CASE NUMBER (SEE CASE 2014-52909). I IMMEDIATELY TURNED MY MARKED VEHICLE AROUND and BEGAN TO FOLLOW THIS VEHICLE. THE VEHICLE SUDDENLY TURNED LEFT INTO AN ADDRESS OF 540 NORTH ROCK CRUSHER ROAD, CRYSTAL RIVER. I THEN TURNED MY VEHICLE AROUND, POSITIONED MY VEHICLE BEHIND THEM, AND MADE CONTACT WITH THE DRIVER, DEFENDANT JORDAN BROWN. I ASKED DEFENDANT BROWN WHERE HE WAS COMING FROM, TO WHICH HE APPEARED TO BE VERY NERVOUS AND WAS VISIBLY SHAKING . HE ADVISED HE WENT TO THE GAS STATION AND HE WAS COMING STRAIGHT HOME. I NOTICED EVERYONE IN THE VEHICLE TO SEEM VERY NERVOUS AND WAS VISIBLY SHAKEN. IN THE REAR SEAT I OBSERVED SEVERAL ARTICLES OF JEWELRY, WHICH WERE LATER IDENTIFIED AS STOLEN ITEMS FROM A SEPARATE CASE. ALSO, IN the REAR SEAT I OBSERVED DEFENDANT STACEY JONES TO BE SITTING WITH A LARGE BLACK BACKPACK BETWEEN HIS LEGS THAT APPEARED TO BE FULL OF SOMETHING. AT THIS TIME, BACKUP WAS CALLED TO the SCENE WHERE SERGEANT ALEXANDER ARRIVED ON SCENE, ALONG WITH CANINE OFFICER INDORATO (0712). CANINE DEPUTY INDORATO DEPLOYED CANINE REPO TO CONDUCT AN EXTERIOR SNIFF OF THE VEHICLE, WHICH RESULTED IN A POSITIVE ALERT, SEE HIS CANINE REPORT. AT THAT TIME, EACH OCCUPANT OF THE VEHICLE WAS ASKED TO STEP out SEPARATELY. CONTACT WAS THEN MADE WITH DETECTIVE DERA (0688), WHO LATER RESPONDED TO the SCENE. I ALSO MADE CONTACT WITH DEPUTY KATHY SETTLE (0113) WHO WAS ON SCENE AT 2082 SOUTH OVERVIEW DRIVE IN LECANTO TO MAKE CONTACT WITH the TENANT OF the RESIDENCE, VICTIM MR DYLAN TRENT. DEPUTY SETTLES ADVISED ME THAT VICTIM TRENT WAS NOT HOME AT THE TIME and UPON RETURNING HOME HIS MOTHER HAD NOTICED THE AIR CONDITIONER UNIT LOCATED AT the REAR OF THE RESIDENCE ON the GROUND, WHICH SHE INITIALLY THOUGHT HAD FALLEN OFF NATURALLY. HOWEVER, SHE LATER REALIZED THAT IT WAS BROKEN INTO AND SOMEONE HAD ENTERED HER RESIDENCE. THE VICTIM ADVISED THAT ONLY HE AND HIS MOTHER HAVE PERMISSION TO ENTER THEIR RESIDENCE and THAT UPON ENTERING HE NOTICED IN HIS ROOM THAT A GRAY SAFE WITH A BLACK LABEL AND YELLOW PUSH BUTTONS CONTAINING UNKNOWN AMOUNT OF CASH HAD BEEN TAKEN FROM INSIDE THE RESIDENCE AND INSIDE HIS ROOM. DEPUTY SETTLES FURTHER SPOKE WITH the COMPLAINANT, WHO WISHED TO REMAIN ANONYMOUS, STATED THAT SHE SAW THE ABOVE VEHICLE STOP IN FRONT OF the HOME WHERE TWO YOUNG MALES EXITED WEARING BANDANAS AND GLOVES. THE ANONYMOUS COMPLAINANT ALSO ADVISED THAT THE BOOK BAG THEY WERE CARRYING APPEARED TO BE EMPTY AND LATER IT APPEARED TO BE FULL. SHE ADVISED THE VEHICLE THEN LEFT OUT OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD HEADING TOWARDS HOMOSASSA TRAIL, WHICH WAS WHERE I SUBSEQUENTLY LOCATED the VEHICLE. DEPUTY SETTLES REMAINED ON SCENE AND FURTHER LOCATED SEVERAL FOOTPRINTS. IDENTIFICATION AND EVIDENCE TECHNICIAN CRYSTAL BURTS LATER RESPONDED TO DEPUTY SETTLESâ and MY LOCATION SEE DEPUTY SETTLESâ AND TECHNICIAN BURTSâ SUPPLEMENT. AFTER ALL THE SUBJECTS IN the VEHICLE WERE SEPARATED THE VEHICLE WAS SEARCHED DUE TO CANINE REPOâS POSITIVE ALERT. UPON SEARCHING the VEHICLE the BLACK BACKPACK THAT WAS LOCATED BETWEEN THE DEFENDANT JONESâ LEGS WAS OPENED. THE BAG CONTAINED A GRAY SAFE WITH A BLACK LABEL AND YELLOW PUSH BUTTONS CONSISTENT WITH the SAFE THAT THE VICTIM STATED WAS TAKEN FROM INSIDE HIS RESIDENCE and that NO ONE HAD PERMISSION TO HAVE. LOCATED INSIDE THE CASE WAS A PLASTIC CELLOPHANE BAGGIE CONTAINING A GREEN LEAFY substance, WHIch I IDentified AS CANnabis DUE TO MY TRaining AND EXperience. also located were SEVERAL ANTIBIoTICS AND ROLLING PAPERS. the VICTIM HaD STated OF THESE ITEMs THAT WERE INSIDE OF THE SAFE AND HE bELieved THEY BELONGED TO THE DEFENDANTS. THE SAFE WAS LATER COLLected BY ID AND EVidence TECHnician BURTS. SEE HER CRIME SCENE TECHNICIAN (CST) REPort. I THEN SPOKE WITH WITNESS two leslie anderson. detective DERa AND i READ HER HER MIRaNda RIghts VIA PReprinted AGeNcy ISsued MIranda cARD. I ASKED MS ANDERSON IF SHE UNDERSTOOD HER RIGHTS AND if she WIsHed TO SPEak WITH ME. SHE ADVised SHE DId. MS ANDERSON ADVISED THAT HER AND HER BOYFRiend, KEITH PATrICk HENDRY WANTed TO SPEND TIME TOGETHER, HOWeVER THE DEFENDANTS WANTED TO GET DROPpED OFF AT A FRIENDâs HOUSe IN the AREA OF SOuTH OVERVIEW DRIVE. WITNESS anderson STATED DEFENDANTs brown and jones haD A BOOK BAG WITH THEM and WERE DROPPED OFF BY HER AND HER BOYFRIEND WHO HAD NO KNowledge OF WHAT they WERE DOINg. SHE STated HER AND HER keith hendry THEN wENT TO THeir FRIeNDâs house, JOSH EVANS. WITNess anderson STATeD THAT AFTEr LEAViNG THEiR FrIeNd JOSHâs HOUSE THEY WERE DRIVING BACK AND DEFENDANT brown and jones APProached THEM IN A PANIC AND HURRIED MANNER TELLING THEM TO GO SEVErAL Times. ONCE THEY ENTERED the VEHICLe DEFENDANTs jones and brown pUT THE WInDOwS UP. WITNess anderson STATED SHE DID NOt KNOw WHAT HAD HAPPened DURINg THAT TIme, HOWeVER DID KNOW THAT WHEN THEY LEFT the BAG WAS EMPTY and UPon THEM RETURnING THE BAG APPEARED TO BE FULL OF SOMETHING. WITNESS anderson STATED THAT SHE PUT TWo AND TWO TOGETHER ANd FIGured OUT THAt they PRobably STOLE SOMETHING. WITNESS anderson COMpleted A sworn, Written sTatement, WHich WAS LATEr TURNEd INTo RECORDS. DEFENDANTs jones and brown WERE THEN PLaced IN HaNdcuffs (double locked) BeHINd THEiR backs, SEArCHed, and SECURED IN the REAR OF SERGEANT ALEXaNDerâs and my PATrol vehicle. DEFENDANT KEith hendry WAS ALSO PLaced IN HANdCuffs (double locked) BeHInd His BACK, SeArched, and SECured IN the REaR OF SERGEANT ALEXanderâs and my PaTrol VeHicle and ARRested ON A SEPARate CASE. ALL SUBjects WERE THEN TRaNsported TO the Citrus county DETENTION FACiLity. UPON ARRival AT the DETention FAcility, Detective dera and i cONDUCTED AN INTERview with DEFENDANT KEITH PAtrick hENDRY. DEFENDANT hendry WAS READ HIS MIranda RIGHTS VIA AGENcy ISSUed PRePRinted MIRaNDa CARD. HE ADVised HE UNDERstood HIS RIGHts AND wished TO SPEak WITH US. WHEN ASKED WHAT HAPPened TODAY DEFENDANT hendry STATED THE DEFENDANTs brown and jones COmMitted A BURGLARY WHICH HE INitially DID NOT know ABOUT, BUT LATER PUT TWO AND TWO TOGEtHER AND DISCOVERED THEY HAD COMmITTED IT. DEFENDANT hendry STATED THAT INITIALLY HE WAS DRIVING IN the ABOVE VEHiCLE AND WITNess ONE WAS IN the PASSengerâs sEAT WHilE DEFendants brown and jones WERE IN THe REAR SEAT OF THE VeHICLE. DEFENDANT hendry STated HE WENT tO his FrIeNd JOSHâs HOUSE TO DROP Him AND HIS GiRLFriend OFF TO SMOKE, AT which TIME DEFendants jones and brown COMMANDEERED ThE VEHicle DRIVing IT TO AN AREA TWO BLOCKS OVER. DEFENDANT hendry STATED HE DID NOT KNOW WHAT THEY WERE LEAVING TO DO, HOWEveR THEY DID HAVE An empty BLAcK BACKPACK AND A TIRE IRON. DEFENDANT hendry STATED THAT WHEN THEY WERE LEAVING Him AND his GIRlFRiend WERE APPROACHED BY DEFENDANTs brown and jones wHO HAD the SAME BLaCK BACKpack ON, WHICH NOW APPeared TO BE FULL. DEFENDANTs brown and jones THEN ENTERED the VEHICLE. DEFENDANT jones DROVE THE VEHicle AND HE sat in the REAR SEAT. DEFENDANT hendry DEScribed BOTH DEFendants TO BE VERY PANICked and IN A HURRied MANNER AND REPeated stated to them to go. DEFENDANT hendry STATED THAT WHEN THEY GOT BACK INTO THE VEHICLE HE OBSERved THEM TO oPEN the VEHicle, which cONTained A GRAY SAFE WITH BLaCK LABEL AND YeLLow PUSH BUTtONs CONSisTENT WITH the ITEM THE VIcTIM DEScribed AS STOLEN. DEFENDANT hendry STATED THAT HE INITIALLY DID NOT KNOW WHAT THEY DID, BUT DID HAVE A TIRE IRON ON HIM AND THAT THEY WENT TO ROB THE VICTIM, MR DYLAN TRENT. DEFENDANT THREE KEITH PATRICK HENDRY DID STATE THAT THEY HAVE BEEN TO THE VICTIMâS HOUSE BEFORE and DEFENDANT HENDRY ALSO DETERMINED WHERE THE TIRE IRON WAS LOCATED and what HE IMAGINED would BE THE BEST WAY TO BREAK IN. HE DESCRIBED THE BEST WAY TO BE THE REAR OF THE RESIDENCE WHERE THE AIR CONDITIONER WAS. DEFENDANT HENDRY INTERVIEW WAS CONDUCTED BY MYSELF and DETECTIVE DERA (0688) AND WAS DIGITALLY RECORDED AND LATER UPLOADED TO THE SERVER. I THEN SPOKE WITH DEFENDANT BROWN, WHO WAS READ HIS MIRANDA RIGHTS VIA AGENCY ISSUED PREPRINTED MIRANDA CARD. THE DEFENDANT IMMEDIATELY ADVISED THAT HE WISHED TO SPEAK WITH HIS LAWYER FIRST. I IMMEDIATELY STOPPED TALKING TO HIM. THE DEFENDANT WAS THEN TURNED BACK OVER TO DETENTION STAFF. I THEN SPOKE WITH DEFENDANT JONES WHERE DETECTIVE DERA and I READ HIM HIS MIRANDA RIGHTS VIA AGENCY ISSUED PREPRINTED MIRANDA CARD. DEFENDANT JONES THEN ADVISED THAT HE WISHED TO SPEAK WITH HIS ATTORNEY, TO WHICH HE WAS BROuGHT BACK AND TURNED OVER TO DETENTION StAFF. a SHORT tIME LATER, WHILE WRITING MY ARREST AFFidavit, I WAS ADVISED THAT DEFENDANT JONES CHANGED HIS MIND AND WISHed TO SPEAK WITH US. HE WAS BROugHT BACK OVER AND WAS DIGitally INTerviewed BY DEtective dera and me. DEFENDANT JONES ADVISED SEVErAL TIMeS THAT HE WAS SPEAKING OF HIS OWN FREEWiLL WITHoUT COERCION AND HE had CHANGED HIS MINd and WISHEd TO SPEAK with US. HE Said SEVEral TIMES HE DOES NOT WANT TO TAlK TO HIS LAWYER, BUT DOES WANT TO SPEaK with US. DEFENDANT JONES WAS READ HIS MIRaNda RIGHTS VIA PRePRiNted agency issued MIRaNda CARD. HE ADVised HE UNDERSTOOD HIS RIGHTS AND HE DID WISH TO sPeak with US. DEFENDANT JONES WAS VERY COOPERATIVE DURING OR INVESTIGATION AND SEEMED VERY REMORSEFUL FOR WHAT HE HAD DONE. DEFENDANT JONES THEN ADVISED THAT HE CAME DOWN FROM SOUTH CAROLINA YESTERDAY AND WAS TOLD BY DEFENDANT BROWN AND DEFENDANT HENDRY THAT they wanted TO âHIT A LICKâ. HE THEN ADVISED THAT HE AND THE OTHER DEFENDANTS WENT OVER TO the BURGLARY LOCATION WHERe DEFENDANT HENDRY REMAINED IN THe VEHicle AND HE AND DEFENDANT JONES WENt to the HOUSE WITH A BLACK BACKPACK AND A TIRE IRON. DEFENDANT JONES STATED THAT DEFENDANT BROWN WENT TO THE REAR WINDOW, REMOVED AN AIR CONDITIONER BY HAND, and JUMPED THROUGh THE WINDOW. APProximately two TO THREe MINUtES LATER DEFENDANT BROWN EXITED the WINDOW WITH THE BLaCK BACKPaCK, WHICH NOW CONTAINED THe STOLEN SAFE. DEFENDANT JONES StATED THE HE DID NOt GO INtO THe HOUsE Because HE âCHICKENed OUT,â HOWeVEr DID HELP PULL OuT THE AIR CONDITIoNER. DEFENDANT JONES STATED THAT KEITH HAD PLANNED OUT THIS BURGLARY and TOLD HIM AND DEFENDANT BROWN EXACTLY WHere the MONEY and SAFE WAS LOCATED InsIDE THIS RESiDeNCE and THE BEST WAY TO GET INSIDE THe RESIDENCE, WHICH WAS THROUGH THE BACK WINDOW WhEre the AIR CONDITIONER WAS LOcATED. this was ALSO STATED BY DEFENDANT HENDRY DURING dETECTIVE DERAâs and my RECORDED INTERVIeW. DEFENDANT JONESâS INTERview WAS RECORdED AND WAS LATER UPLOAdED TO THE SERVEr. DEFENDANT JONEs alSO COMpleted A SWorn. WRitten STatement, which WAS LaTer TURned INTO REcORDS. DEFENDANT JONES AND DEFENDANT BROWN WERE LATER CHARGED with BURGLARY and PETIT THEFT WITH total BOND SET AT $5,500.00, PER THE BOND SCHEDULE. DEFENDANT HENDRY WAS LATER CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTed SOLicitation AND COnSPIRAcy with HIS BOND WAS SET AT $1,000.00, PEr THE BOND SCHEDULE the VEHicle WAS LaTer TOwed BY ADAMâs TOWING and A VEHicle INVentory SHEet WAS COMPLeTeD BY CANine deputy INDORATO, WHO StILl ReMAINed ON SCENE. NO FURTHER ACTION WAS TAKEN BY THIS DEPUTY. |
