| Probable cause affidavit: |
SUBMITTED BY: CROSNOE, ROBERT 0234 (15-66885) (AR15-15103) DID UNLAWFULLY HAVE IN HIS/HER ACTUAL OR CONSTRUCTIVE POSSESSION A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE, TO WIT: COCAINE, IN VIOLATION OF FLORIDA STATE STATUTE 893.13(6)(A). DID UNLAWFULLY HAVE IN HIS/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: TWO BLACK SPOONS, COTTON AND ONE USED SYRINGE CONTAINING COCAINE RESIDUE, IN VIOLATION OF FLORIDA STATE STATUTES 893.147(1). ON 052115, AT APPROXIMATELY 1810 HOURS, DEPUTY TITUS WAS CONDUCTING TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT ON SOUTH APOPKA AT THE INTERSECTION OF INVERNESS BOULEVARD. DEPUTY TITUS WAS PARKED STANDING OUT OF HIS VEHICLE NEAR THIS INTERSECTION, which IS A FOUR WAY STOP, CONDUCTING THE CLICK IT OR TICKET IT TRAFFIC CAMPAIGN. DEPUTY TITUS OBSERVED A 2003 BLACK GMC ENVOY STOPPED AT THE INTERSECTION OF SOUTH APOPKA AND INVERNESS BOULEVARD WHERE HE IMMEDIATELY IDENTIFIED THAT THE FRONT RIGHT SEAT PASSENGER WAS NOT WEARING HER SEATBELT. DEPUTY TITUS CONDUCTED A TRAFFIC STOP AT THE INTERSECTION OF SOUTH APOPKA AND HOFSTRA STREET. DEPUTY TITUS IMMEDIATELY CALLED FOR A K-9 AND DEPUTY RITLI AND I ARRIVED ON SCENE FOR BACKUP. DEPUTY RITLI DID DEPLOY HIS K-9 AND CONDUCTED AN EXTERIOR SNIFF OF the VEHICLE. DEPUTY RITLI INFORMED US THAT HIS K-9 DID GIVE A POSITIVE RESPONSE. I HAD THE REAR SEAT PASSENGER, WHO IDENTIFIED HERSELF AS MS VENESSA HARTWICH, THE DEFENDANT, EXIT THE VEHICLE AND WALK BACK TO MY PATROL VEHICLE. WHILE WALKING BACK TO MY VEHICLE, MS HARTWICH STATED THAT SHE HAD A USED SYRINGE IN A BOX LOCATED IN HER PURSE. I HAD MS HARTWICH SIT AT THE FRONT OF MY PATROL VEHICLE, WHICH WAS PARKED RIGHT BEHIND THE SUSPECT VEHICLE. I RETURNED TO the REAR PASSENGER SEAT OF THE SUSPECT VEHICLE WHERE I RETRIEVED A GREY, BLACK AND PINK LEOPARD PRINT PURSE. I HELD THE PURSE UP AND ASKED MS HARTWICH IF THAT WAS HER PURSE, TO WHICH SHE STATED YES. I CONDUCTED AN INTERIOR SEARCH OF THE PURSE AND I DID LOCATE A SMALL PLASTIC BOX which WAS WRAPPED IN CAMOUFLAGE TAPE AND HAD THE WORDS ''BABY GIRL'S BOX OF WONDERS'' WRITTEN IN YELLOW ON THE TOP. I OPENED THE PLASTIC BOX AND discovered TWO PLASTIC SPOONS, A SMALL GREEN PLASTIC BAGGIE CONTAINING A WHITE POWDER, ONE SYRINGE FILLED WITH AN UNKNOWN LIQUID AND A CIGARETTE BUTT CUT IN HALF WITH THE WRAPPER REMOVED REVEALING THE COTTON FILTER. MS HARTWICH WAS ASKED ABOUT THE BOX AND SHE INFORMED ME THAT THE WHITE POWDER IN THE GREEN BAG WAS COCAINE BUT IT WAS NOT HERS, IT BELONGED TO ONE OF HER FRIENDS. MS HARTWICH ALSO MADE A STATEMENT THAT SHE DID NOT REALIZE HER FRIEND HAD LEFT THE COCAINE IN HER PLASTIC BOX. DEPUTY RITLI CONDUCTED A PRESUMPTIVE FIELD TEST ON the WHITE POWDER WHICH DID GIVE A POSITIVE INDICATION FOR COCAINE. THE DEFENDANT WAS PLACED UNDER ARREST FOR POSSESSION OF PARAPHERNALIA AND COCAINE, HANDCUFFED, IN FRONT, (DOUBLE LOCKED), SECURED IN THE REAR OF MY PATROL VEHICLE AND TRANSPORTED TO THE CITRUS COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY FOR BOOKING AND PROCESSING. THE DEFENDANTâS BOND WAS SET AT A TOTAL OF $3,000.00, PER THE BOND SCHEDULE. ALL EVIDENCE WAS LATER TURNED IN TO CITRUS COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE EVIDENCE DIVISION BY THIS DEPUTY. |
