| Probable cause affidavit: |
SUBMITTED BY: SMITH, STEVE 0292 (AR13-4897) 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: METHAMPHETAMINE, IN VIOLATION OF FLORIDA STATE STATUTE 893.13(1)(A)(1); AND DID UNLAWFULLY HAVE IN HIS/HER POSSESSION LISTED PRECURSOR CHEMICALS OR ESSENTIAL CHEMICALS USED IN THE MANUFACTURING OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE; TO WIT: EPHEDRINE, AMMONIA NITRATE, AND LITHIUM METAL, IN VIOLATION OF FLORIDA STATE STATUTE 893.149(1)(A) THESE CHEMICALS ARE CRITICAL TO THE MANUFACTURING OF METHAMPHETAMINE; AND CREATION OF THE CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE, TO WIT: METHAMPHETAMINE. 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; AND 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: SYRINGES AND SPOONS, IN VIOLATION OF FLORIDA STATE STATUTES 893.145 AND 893.147(1). ON 031813, A LAWFUL SEARCH WARRANT WAS SERVED AT 2095 NORTH MCGEE DRIVE IN HERNANDO, IN REFERENCE TO THE MANUFACTURING AND USE OF METHAMPHETAMINE. A SEARCH OF THE RESIDENCE LED TO THE DISCOVERY OF THE FOLLOWING ITEMS: INSIDE THE MASTER BEDROOM, WHICH IS WHERE DEFENDANTS MS DENISE STUEBS AND MR WILLIAM LEONARD SLEEP, A LARGE RED CONTAINER WAS LOCATED THAT CONTAINED NUMEROUS SYRINGES WHICH DID TEST POSITIVE FOR METHAMPHETAMINE. ALSO, LOCATED IN THE BEDROOM IN A DRAWER OF A DRESSER WERE MORE SYRINGES, NUMEROUS SPOONS AND PARAPHERNALIA RELATED TO THE INJECTING OF METHAMPHETAMINE. THESE ITEMS WERE ALSO FIELD TESTED AND DID TEST POSITIVE FOR METHAMPHETAMINE. A SEARCH OF THE REAR YARD LED TO THE DISCOVERY OF LITHIUM BATTERY CASINGS, WHICH HAD THE LITHIUM REMOVED. ALSO, THE REMNANTS OF A ONE-POT METHAMPHETAMINE COOK AND A âHCLâ GAS GENERATOR WAS LOCATED IN THE BURN PIT. IT WAS ALSO OBSERVED THAT THE SHED IN THE REAR YARD WAS LOCKED WITH A PADLOCK. WHEN CONTACT WAS MADE WITH DEFENDANT DENISE STUEBS, SHE STATED THAT THE KEYS TO OPEN THE SHED WERE IN HER ROOM ON A DRESSER. UPON RETRIEVING THE KEYS AND OPENING THE SHED, THE FOLLOWING ITEMS WERE LOCATED: FOUR COLEMAN FUEL CANS, TWO BOTTLES OF MURIATIC ACID, AMMONIA NITRATE , REMNANTS OF A COLD PACK, A ONE-POT METHAMPHETAMINE COOK, TWO âHCLâ GENERATORS, MORE BATTERY CASINGS, THE TOOLS USED TO STRIP BATTERIES, RUBBER GLOVES, COFFEE FILTERS, SEVERAL EMPTY CANS OF ZIPPO LIGHTER FLUID, LITHIUM BATTERIES, A CONTAINER OF SALT, SEVERAL PIECES OF TUBING, WHICH HAD BEEN USED ON THE âHCLâ GENERATORS, A GLASS JAR, WHICH HAD BEEN USED TO COLLECT THE METHAMPHETAMINE OIL, AND A FIRE EXTINGUISHER. ALSO, IN THE REAR YARD WERE SEVERAL AREAS THAT HAD BURN MARKS THAT APPEARED TO BE WHERE METHAMPHETAMINE COOKS HAD BREACHED THEIR CONTAINER AND BURNED THE YARD, INCLUDING PART OF THE SHED. IN A TRASH CAN BESIDE THE SHED WAS ANOTHER âHCLâ GENERATOR. IN THE WOODS BEHIND THE SHED ANOTHER ONE-POT METHAMPHETAMINE COOK WAS LOCATED AND ANOTHER âHCLâ GENERATOR. ALL THESE ITEMS WERE COLLECTED, PHOTOGRAPHED AND FINGERPRINTED BY DEPUTY PARSONS. IT SHOULD ALSO BE NOTED, THAT THE TUBING COMING FROM âHCLâ GENERATORS WERE FIELD TESTED AND DID FIELD TEST POSITIVE FOR METHAMPHETAMINE. THERE WAS ALSO A YELLOW FUNNEL THAT WAS LOCATED WHICH WAS FIELD TESTED AND TESTED POSITIVE FOR EPHEDRINE. THIS DEPUTY CONDUCTED INTERVIEWS WITH THE THREE DEFENDANTS. FIRST, I SPOKE WITH DEFENDANT DENISE STUEBS. SHE WAS READ HER MIRANDA RIGHTS FROM A PRE-PRINTED AGENCY ISSUED CARD. SHE STATED SHE UNDERSTOOD HER RIGHTS AND AGREED TO SPEAK WITH ME. DEFENDANT STUEBS WAS VERY HONEST AND SEEMED TO BE REGRETFUL. SHE CONFESSED TO BUYING EPHEDRINE FOR A SUSPECT WHO WAS NOT AT THE HOUSE DURING THE TIME OF THE WARRANT. SHE ALSO ADMITTED TO GIVING THE SUSPECT RIDES TO THE STORE TO PURCHASE CHEMICALS AND IN EXCHANGE FOR THESE ACTIVITIES SHE WAS PROVIDED METHAMPHETAMINE WHEN THE COOKS WERE COMPLETED. SHE DID OPENLY ADMIT THAT SHE KNEW THAT THE ITEMS SHE PURCHASED OVER THE PAST SEVERAL MONTHS WAS USED IN THE COMMISSION OF THE MANUFACTURING OF METHAMPHETAMINE. SHE ALSO ADMITTED, WHILE DEPUTIES WERE AT THE RESIDENCE, TO HIDING A RED CONTAINER CONTAINING NUMEROUS SYRINGES IN HER BEDROOM IN A CLOTHES BASKET, WHICH WAS WHERE THE RED CONTAINER WAS LOCATED. SHE ALSO ADMITTED TO USING METHAMPHETAMINE OVER THE PAST SEVERAL MONTHS AND THAT SHE USES SYRINGES TO INJECT IT AND THAT SOME OF THE SYRINGES INSIDE THE CONTAINER WAS HERS. SHE ALSO ADMITTED THAT SHE HAD PREPARED THE SYRINGES HERSELF DUE TO HER BEING A NURSE. AT THIS TIME, I MADE CONTACT WITH DEFENDANT WILLIAM LEONARD. HE WAS READ HIS MIRANDA RIGHTS FROM A PRE-PRINTED AGENCY ISSUED CARD. HE STATED HE UNDERSTOOD HIS RIGHTS AND AGREED TO SPEAK WITH ME. DURING THIS INTERVIEW, HE OPENLY ADMITTED TO PURCHASING EPHEDRINE FOR THE SUSPECTâS METHAMPHETAMINE COOK. HE ADVISED THAT IN EXCHANGE FOR THE PURCHASING OF THE EPHEDRINE HE WAS GIVEN METHAMPHETAMINE. HE WOULD NOT ELABORATE ANY FURTHER. AT THIS TIME, AN INTERVIEW WAS CONDUCTED WITH DEFENDANT JACOB STUEBS. HE WAS READ HIS MIRANDA RIGHTS FROM A PRE-PRINTED AGENCY ISSUED CARD. HE STATED HE UNDERSTOOD HIS RIGHTS AND AGREED TO SPEAK WITH ME. DEFENDANT JACOB STUEBS WAS VERY COOPERATIVE AND WAS VERY STRAIGHT FORWARD AND TRUTHFUL. HE ADVISED THAT OVER THE PAST TWO OR THREE MONTHS THE SUSPECT, WHO HAD NOT BEEN AT THE RESIDENCE AT THE TIME OF THE WARRANT, HAD BEEN COOKING METHAMPHETAMINE AT THE RESIDENCE. HE ADVISED THAT HE AND DEFENDANT WILLIAM STUEBS WOULD SOMETIMES HELP WITH THE PREPARING OF CHEMICALS. HE FURTHER ADVISED THAT BOTH HE AND DEFENDANT LEONARD WOULD EVEN SOMETIMES SHAKE THE ONE POT COOK, WHICH IS PART OF THE PROCESS OF THE MANUFACTURING. HE ALSO ADMITTED TO BUYING CHEMICALS FOR THIS SUSPECT WHO WAS CONDUCTING THE MANUFACTURING AND IN EXCHANGE, HE WOULD BE GIVEN METHAMPHETAMINE FOR HELPING AND FOR WHAT CHEMICALS HE SUPPLIED. AT THIS TIME, ANOTHER INTERVIEW WAS CONDUCTED WITH DEFENDANT WILLIAM LEONARD. THIS INTERVIEW WAS CONDUCTED BY DETECTIVE BERGEN. DURING THIS INTERVIEW, DEFENDANT LEONARD FINALLY ADMITTED TO HELPING WITH SOME OF THE MANUFACTURING AS FAR AS SHAKING THE MIXTURE IN THE BOTTLE AND HELPING WITH THE MANUFACTURING PROCESS. IT SHOULD ALSO BE NOTED, DURING THESE INTERVIEWS, DEFENDANT JACOB STUEBS AND DEFENDANT WILLIAM LEONARD WHEN ASKED WHERE THE CHILDREN WERE THAT LIVE IN THE RESIDENCE THEY ADMITTED THAT BOTH CHILDREN WERE PRESENT INSIDE THE RESIDENCE WHILE THE MANUFACTURING PROCESS WAS COMPLETED. HAZ-MAT DID RESPOND TO THE SCENE. ALL HAZARDOUS MATERIALS WERE COLLECTED BY ME AND LATER TURNED IN THE CITRUS COUNTY LANDFILL. ALL EVIDENCE WAS COLLECTED BY DEPUTY PARSONS. DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES DID REMOVE THE CHILD FROM THE RESIDENCE AND ALSO PICKED UP THE MALE CHILD FROM SCHOOL. THE CHILDREN WERE PLACED WITH FAMILY MEMBERS. THE DEFENDANTS WERE PLACED UNDER ARREST, HANDCUFFED (DOUBLE LOCKED) AND TRANSPORTED TO THE CITRUS COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY WITHOUT INCIDENT. THE DEFENDANTâS TOTAL BOND WAS SET AT $155,500.00. |
