| Probable cause affidavit: |
SUBMITTED BY: FERGUSON, ROBERT 0505 (AR16-19286) DID UNLAWFULLY AND FELONIOUSLY SELL, MANUFACTURE OR DELIVER OR POSSESS WITH INTENT TO SELL, MANUFACTURE OR DELIVER OR CAUSE TO BE SOLD, MANUFACTURED OR DELIVERED TO ANOTHER PERSON, A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE, TO WIT: 8 GRAMS METHAMPHETAMINE IN A ZIP-LOC BAG, ALONG WITH DIGITAL SCALE, IN VIOLATION OF FLORIDA STATE STATUTE NUMBER 893.13(1)(A)(1). ON 043016, AT APPROXIMATELY 1135 HOURS, MYSELF AND DEPUTY MARSHALL (1336) WERE SITTING IN the PARKING LOT OF NATURE COAST PHYSICAL THERAPY. I OBSERVED A SILVER IN COLOR NISSAN ALTIMA WITH the REAR WINDOW SMASHED OUT CUT THROUGH THE PARKING LOT FROM HIGHWAY 44 ONTO FOREST DRIVE. AS THE VEHICLE WAS EXITING the PARKING LOT IT FAILED TO COME TO A STOP BEHIND THE STOP SIGN and STOP BAR. I INITIATED A TRAFFIC STOP AT the INTERSECTION OF EAST FOREST DRIVE AND CONSTITUTION BOULEVARD IN INVERNESS. UPON MAKING CONTACT with the DRIVER (WITNESS), MS KARLA GANDIA, KARLA WAS NOT ABLE TO PROVIDE ME WITH heR DRIVER'S LICENSE OR HER VEHICLE REGISTRATION. AT THAT TIME, I AGAIN ASKED KARLA FOR HER INFORMATION; SUCH AS HER NAME, DATE OF BIRTH, AND SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER. WHILE SPEAKING WITH KARLA, I NOTICED THAT she APPEARED TO BE EXTREMELY NERVOUS, HER HANDS WERE SHAKING, AND HER SPEECH WAS CRACKING. SHE STATED SEVERAL TIMES THAT she HAS ANXIETY AND SHE COULD NOT COMPLETE A SINGLE THOUGHT. I ASKED KARLA IF SHE would EXIT the VEHICLE and SPEAK WITH ME, WHICH she DID. WHILE SPEAKING WITH KARLA I ASKED IF THERE WAS ANYTHING ILLEGAL in the VEHICLE. SHE INSTANTLY BECAME MORE NERVOUS. SHE WAS SHAKING UNCONTROLLABLY STATING THAT IT WAS HER BIRTHDAY and she DID NOT want TO GO TO JAIL. I AGAIN ASKED KARLA IF THERE WAS ANYTHING ILLEGAL in the VEHICLE, AT WHICH TIME she STATED THERE WAS POSSIBLY METHAMPHETAMINE IN the CAR IN A SMALL ZIP-LOC BAGGIE. I ASKED HER SEVERAL TIMES WHERE the ITEMS COULD BE LOCATED, TO WHICH SHE ADVISED SHE DID NOT KNOW EXACTLY BECAUSE THEY WERE NOT HERS and she DID NOT PUT THEM IN THE VEHICLE. WHEN ASKED WHO THEY BELONGED TO SHE would NOT GIVE ME A VERBAL RESPONSE, HOWEVER KEPT LOOKING OVER AT the DEFENDANT, WHO WAS THE FRONT SEAT PASSENGER IDENTIFIED AS MS WHITNEY MAST, AND WHO WAS SPEAKING WITH DEPUTY MARSHALL (1336). WHILE CONTINUING TO SPEAK WITH KARLA, DEPUTY MARSHALL ADVISED THAT the DEFENDANT HAD STATED TO HIM THAT SHE HAD A PLASTIC BAGGIE CONTAINING METHAMPHETAMINE INSIDE the VEHICLE and THEN RETRIEVED the PLASTIC BAGGIE FROM THE PASSENGER'S SIDE FLOORBOARD UNDERNEATH A BLACK SWEATER. DEPUTY MARSHALL SHOWED ME THE NARCOTICS THAT WERE REMOVED FROM the CAR, WHICH HAD A WEIGHT OF 8 GRAMS AND FIELD TESTED POSITIVE FOR METHAMPHETAMINE. DEPUTY MARSHALL ADVISED THAT HE HAD READ the DEFENDANT HER MIRANDA WARNINGS, AT WHICH TIME she AGREED TO TALK. FOR THE SAFETY OF MYSELF, ALONG WITH the DEFENDANT and KARLA, THE DEFENDANT WAS SECURED IN the REAR SEAT OF DEPUTY MARSHALL'S PATROL CAR and KARLA MOVED the VEHICLE TO THE PARKING LOT OF NATURE COAST PHYSICAL THERAPY WHERE A SEARCH OF the VEHICLE COULD BE CONDUCTED. DEPUTY MARSHALL CONDUCTED A SEARCH OF THE VEHICLE LOCATING A GREEN IN COLOR DIGITAL SCALE INSIDE DEFENDANT WHITNEY'S PURSE. AS I BEGAN TO QUESTION the DEFENDANT, SHE ADVISED THAT THE METHAMPHETAMINE BELONGED TO HER and NOT TO THE WITNESS AND THAT SHE WAS PLANNING ON SELLING THE NARCOTICS IN ORDER TO PUT FOOD ON HER TABLE. I ASKED HER HOW SHE SEPARATED THE DRUGS FOR SALE, AT which TIME SHE STATED THAT SHE MAKES HER CUSTOMERS SUPPLY THE PLASTIC BAGGIES OR WHATEVER ELSE THEY WANT TO PUT IT IN. DEFENDANT MAST WAS TAKEN OUT OF DEPUTY MARSHALL'S VEHICLE, HANDCUFFED (DOUBLE LOCKED) AND SECURED IN THE REAR SEAT OF MY PATROL VEHICLE. THE DEFENDANT WAS THEN TRANSPORTED TO THE CITRUS COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY FOR BOOKING. UPON ARRIVAL THE DEFENDANT WAS CHARGED with ONE COUNT POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE WITH INTENT TO SELL AND HER TOTAL BOND SET AT $5,000.00, PER the BOND SCHEDULE. ALL SEIZED ITEMS WILL BE TURNED OVER TO THE CITRUS COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE EVIDENCE LOCKER. KARLA WAS ISSUED A WRITTEN WARNING FOR FAILURE TO STOP AT A STOP SIGN. |
