| Probable cause affidavit: |
SUBMITTED BY: SMITH, STEVE 0292 (AR11119091) DID UNLAWFULLY AGREE, CONSPIRE, COMBINES, OR CONFEDERATES, WITH ANOTHER PERSON OR PERSONS TO COMMIT AN OFFENSE OF CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY, TO WIT: CONSPIRES TO MANUFACTURE METHAMPHETAMINE, IN VIOLATION OF FLORIDA STATE STATUTE 777.04(3), CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY. DID UNLAWFULLY HAVE IN HER POSSESSION LISTED PRECURSOR CHEMICALS OR ESSENTIAL CHEMICALS USED IN THE MANUFACTURING OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE IN VIOLATION OF FLORIDA STATE STATUTE 893.149(1)(A) THESE CHEMICALS ARE CRITICAL TO THE CREATION OF THE CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE, TO WIT: PSEUDO-EPHEDRINE. 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: METHAMPHETAMINE PIPES, STRAWS and BAGGIES, IN VIOLATION OF FLORIDA STATE STATUTES 893.147(1). OVER THE PAST SIX MONTHS this DEPUTY HAS received INFORMATION FROM NUMEROUS CONFIDENTIAL SOURCES THAT THE RESIDENCE AT 8911 NORTH CACALIA DRIVE IS BEING UTILIZED IN the USE and MANUFACTURING OF METHAMPHETAMINE. THE INDIVIDUALS LIVING IN THE RESIDENCE INCLUDE BOTH THE DEFENDANT WANDA WOODFIELD and DEFENDANT RUSSELL WOODFIELD. ON 012511 THIS DEPUTY, AS WELL AS OTHER MEMBERS OF THE CITRUS COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE RESPONDED TO THE RESIDENCE IN AN UNRELATED MATTER. WHILE AT THE RESIDENCE THIS DEPUTY DID OBSERVE, IN A BURN PILE CLOSE TO THE RESIDENCE, A LARGE AMOUNT OF LITHIUM BATTERY CASINGS WHICH HAD BEEN CUT OPEN AND HAD THE LITHIUM REMOVED. A SEARCH WARRANT WAS OBTAINED AT A LATER DATE AND ON TODAY'S DATE THIS DEPUTY, AS WELL AS OTHER MEMBERS OF THE CITRUS COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE, RESPONDED TO THE RESIDENCE, WHERE THE WARRANT WAS EXECUTED. CONTACT WAS MADE WITH BOTH DEFENDANTS. THE WARRANT WAS READ TO THEM and AT THIS TIME A TAPED INTERVIEW WAS CONDUCTED WITH BOTH DEFENDANTS SEPARATELY. THIS DEPUTY INTERVIEWED DEFENDANT WANDA WOODFIELD FIRST. SHE WAS READ MIRANDA FROM A PRE-PRINTED CARD. WHEN ASKED IF SHE UNDERSTOOD HER RIGHTS, SHE ADVISED SHE DID. WHEN ASKED IF SHE STILL WISH TO SPEAK TO THIS DEPUTY, SHE ADVISED SHE DID. SHE ADVISED AT THIS TIME THERE WOULD BE METHAMPHETAMINE PARAPHERNALIA IN THE RESIDENCE, TO WIT: BAGGIES, STRAWS AND HER METH PIPE. SHE DID ADVISE THE LOCATION OF WHERE SOME OF THESE ITEMS WOULD BE FOUND. SHE ALSO ADVISED THAT SHE AND HER HUSBAND DID CONSPIRE TOGETHER TO PURCHASE PSEUDO-EPHEDRINE FOR METHAMPHETAMINE COOKS. SHE ADVISED THAT THE COOKS WOULD EITHER GIVE THEM MONEY FOR THE PSEUDO-EPHEDRINE OR GIVE THEM METHAMPHETAMINE IN PAYMENT. SHE DID ADVISE THAT she AND HER HUSBAND WERE AWARE THAT THE PSEUDO-EPHEDRINE WAS BEING USED IN THE MANUFACTURING PROCESS. WHEN ASKED IF THERE WAS ANY CHEMICALS OR ANY OTHER ITEMS RELATED to the MANUFACTURING PROCESS IN THE RESIDENCE, SHE ADVISED NOT TO HER KNOWLEDGE. I THEN CONDUCTED A DIGITAL INTERVIEW with DEFENDANT RUSSELL WOODFIELD. HE WAS READ MIRANDA FROM PRE-PRINTED CARD. WHEN ASKED IF HE UNDERSTOOD his RIGHTS, HE SAID HE DID. WHEN ASKED IF HE STILL WISHED TO SPEAK WITH THIS DEPUTY, HE SAID HE DID. HE ALSO ADVISED THAT HE AND HIS WIFE USED METHAMPHETAMINE AND THAT THERE WOULD BE PARAPHERNALIA IN the RESIDENCE. HE ALSO WENT INTO THE FACT THAT HE AND HIS WIFE CONSPIRED TO PURCHASE P PSEUDO-EPHEDRINE FOR METH COOKS FOR THE MANUFACTURING PROCESS and THAT THEY EITHER RECEIVED MONEY OR METHAMPHETAMINE FOR TRADE FOR BOXES OF PSEUDO-EPHEDRINE. HE ALSO ADVISED THAT THERE SHOULD BE NO CHEMICALS OR ANYTHING RELATED TO THE METHAMPHETAMINE PROCESS AT THE RESIDENCE. AT THIS TIME THE INTERVIEW WAS CONCLUDED. A THOROUGH SEARCH OF THE RESIDENCE DID LEAD TO THE DISCOVERY OF METH GARBAGE TO INCLUDE PSEUDO-EPHEDRINE BOXES, BLISTER PACKS, LITHIUM BATTERY CASINGS, COLD PACK BOXES and OTHER MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS USED AND DISCARDED DURING THE METHAMPHETAMINE PROCESS. ALSO NUMEROUS PARAPHERNALIA ITEMS WERE LOCATED THROUGHOUT THE RESIDENCE. IN REFERENCE TO THE PARAPHERNALIA ITEMS, THEY WERE TAKEN INTO CUSTODY BY DEPUTY COLEMAN. IN REFERENCE TO THE ITEMS USED IN THE MANUFACTURING PROCESS, IT WAS DEEMED BY THIS DEPUTY, THROUGH HIS LAB CERTIFICATION, THAT WE DID NOT NEED THE DEA CLEAN UP CREW and THESE ITEMS COULD BE DISPOSED OF IN the COUNTY LANDFILL. A PROPERTY RECEIPT WAS COMPLETED AND THESE ITEMS WERE TURNED OVER to the CITRUS COUNTY LANDFILL AFTER THEY WERE PROCESSED (SEE DEPUTY COLEMAN'S SUPPLEMENT). AT THIS TIME A SECOND INTERVIEW WAS CONDUCTED with DEFENDANT WANDA WOODFIELD. SHE DID CONFESS TO THE PARAPHERNALIA ITEMS THAT WERE HERS. SHE ADVISED SHE HAD NO KNOWLEDGE OF THE ITEMS USED IN THE MANUFACTURING PROCESS; HOWEVER SHE DID GO BACK INTO AGAIN THE ARRANGEMENT BETWEEN HER, HER HUSBAND AND A METH COOK IN WHICH THEY WOULD PURCHASE PSEUDO-EPHEDRINE FOR THAT INDIVIDUAL. UPON COMPLETION OF this statement A SECOND TAPED STATEMENT WAS CONDUCTED WITH RUSSELL WOODFIELD, WHO ALSO ADMITTED TO THE PARAPHERNALIA BEING HIS, BUT ONCE AGAIN ADVISED HE KNEW NOTHING ABOUT THE MANUFACTURING ITEMS AND ONCE AGAIN WENT INTO THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN HIM, HIS WIFE AND THE METHAMPHETAMINE COOK TO PURCHASE P PSEUDO-EPHEDRINE FOR THE MANUFACTURING PROCESS. BOTH DEFENDANTS WERE ARRESTED, HANDCUFFED (DOUBLE LOCKED) AND TRANSPORTED TO THE CITRUS COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY WITHOUT INCIDENT. UPON ARRIVAL THEIR BOND WAS SET AT $10,500.00 EACH, PER THE BOND SCHEDULE. 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