| Probable cause affidavit: |
SUBMITTED BY: HOLLOWAY, WILLIAM 0463 (AR11122179) DID VIOLATE FLORIDA STATE STATUTE NUMBER 328.07(3)(A), TO WIT: BY REMOVING HULL IDENTIFICATION NUMBER FROM VESSEL; AND THE DEFENDANT DID FIND AN ALUMINUM BOAT THAT HE KNEW DID NOT BELONG TO HIM. HE ALSO DID NOT REPORT THE BOAT TO LAW ENFORCEMENT AS REQUIRED BY FLORIDA STATE STATUTE. HE ALSO APPROPRIATED THE BOAT FOR HIS OWN PERSONAL USE, TO WIT: CUT THE BOAT UP AND TURNED IT IN TO A METAL RECYCLER AND RECEIVED $92.30 FOR IT. BY DOING THIS HE DEPRIVED THE RIGHTFUL OWNER OF SAID BOAT AND VALUE THEREOF, IN VIOLATION OF FLORIDA STATE STATUTE NUMBER 705.102(3) AND Any person who knowingly gives false verification of ownership or who gives a false or altered identification and who receives money or other consideration from a secondary metals recycler, in return for regulated metals, AND THE value of the money or other consideration received is less than $300.00, IN VIOLATION OF FLORIDA STATE STATUTE 538.23(3)(A). ON 080811, I WAS CONTACTED BY THE CITRUS COUNTY METAL RECYCLER THAT THE DEFENDANT CAME TO HIS BUSINESS WITH A WHOLE ALUMINUM BOAT BEARING STATE REGISTRATION NUMBER. THE METAL RECYCLER ADVISED THAT THE DEFENDANT STATED HE FOUND THE BOAT AND THAT WAS THE REASON HE WANTED TO SCRAP IT. THE METAL RECYCLER DECLINED TO TAKE THE BOAT BECAUSE HE BELIEVED IT MIGHT BE STOLEN. HE FURTHER ADVISED HE BELIEVED THE DEFENDANT WAS GOING TO TAKE THE BOAT TO ENTER-COUNTY METAL RECYCLER IN LECANTO. I THEN CONTACTED THE OWNER OF INTER-COUNTY METAL RECYCLER AND FOUND OUT THAT THE DEFENDANT DID RECYCLE THE BOAT THERE. THE OWNER STATED THAT ON 080811 AT APPROXIMATELY 1444 HOURS HE BROUGHT THE BOAT IN, BUT I WAS NOW CUT INTO PIECES. THIS TRANSACTION WAS DOCUMENTED ON INTER-COUNTY RECYCLER FORM NUMBER 131899. DEPUTY PARSON RESPONDED TO THE BUSINESS AND PHOTOGRAPHED THE BOAT IN ITS CURRENT STATE. HE ALSO NOTICED THE HULL NUMBER AND THE HULL IDENTIFICATION PLATE HAD BEEN CUT FROM THE BOAT. ON 080911, CONTACT WAS MADE WITH THE DEFENDANT (MR THOMAS LEGG) AT HIS HOME. THE DEFENDANT WAS ASKED WHERE HE HAD OBTAINED THE BOAT FROM. HE ADVISED IT WAS DUMPED ON THE POWER LINE AREA NEAR HIS GRANDMOTHER'S HOME. HE WAS ASKED WHY HE DID NO REPORT THE BOAT TO THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE. HE STATED INITIALLY HE DID NOT THINK HE HAD TO SINCE IT WAS FOUND PROPERTY. HE WAS THEN ASKED WHY HE CUT OUT THE IDENTIFICATIONS NUMBERS, TO WHICH HE STATED HE WAS AFRAID THE BOAT WAS STOLEN. HE WAS THEN ASKED WHERE HE HAD CUT UP THE BOAT, TO WHICH HE GAVE AN ADDRESS OFF OF KLEET PATH IN LECANTO . DEPUTY PARSONS AND I RESPONDED TO THAT ADDRESS AND FOUND THE BOAT HAD NOT BEEN CUT UP THERE. WE ALSO FOUND OUT THAT THE BOAT WAS CUT UP AT THE DEFENDANT'S HOME IN HIS GARAGE. AT THE TIME OF THE ARREST IN PLAIN SIGHT IN THE DEFENDANT'S GARBAGE CAN THERE WAS SOME PARTS FROM THE BOAT ALONG WITH SOME METAL SCRAP FROM THE BOAT. ON 081111, PRIOR TO BE ARRESTED, HE WAS AGAIN ASKED WHERE H HAD CUT UP THE BOAT, TO WHICH HE ADVISED HE DID NOT KNOW. BUT AFTER BEING ARRESTED POST MIRANDA HE STATED HE DID NOT BELIEVE IT WAS A CRIME TO LIE ABOUT WHERE THE BOAT WAS CUT UP. AFTER THE DEFENDANT WAS PLACED UNDER ARREST HE WAS HANDCUFFED DOUBLE LOCKED AND TRANSPORTED TO THE CITRUS COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY FOR BOOKING. THE DEFENDANT TOTAL BOND WAS SET AT $6.000.00. "If you are a person with a disability who needs any accommodation in order to participate in this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact the ADA Coordinator at the Office of the Trial Court Administrator, Citrus County Courthouse, 110 North Apopka Avenue, Inverness, Florida 34450, Telephone (352) 341-6700, at least 7 days before your scheduled court appearance, or immediately upon receiving this notification if the time before the scheduled appearance is less than 7 days; if you are hearing or voice impaired, call 711.” *NOT-EXEMPT* |
