| Probable cause affidavit: |
SUBMITTED BY: WEST, JAMES 1286 (AR17-22220)(17-783) THE DEFENDANT, MR CHRISTOPHER HAYS, A REGISTERED SEX OFFENDER, DID FAIL TO NOTIFY AND/OR CHANGE HIS DRIVERâS LICENSE NAME/ADDRESS, IN ACCORDANCE WITH FLORIDA STATUTE NUMBER 943.0435(4)(B) ON 010217, AT APPROXIMATELY 1911 HOURS, I RESPONDED TO 5539 SOUTH WOODSIDE TERRACE IN HOMOSASSA, IN REFERENCE TO MAKING CONTACT WITH A REGISTERED SEX OFFENDER. UPON ARRIVAL TO THE RESIDENCE, I MADE CONTACT WITH WITNESSES, MR WILLIAM COAN, AND MS CHERYL CIANCI, WHO ADVISED THE DEFENDANT, MR CHRISTOPHER HAYS, HAD ORIGINALLY STAYED AT THEIR RESIDENCE BUT HAD LEFT ON 122316, AND HAD NOT RETURNED TO THE RESIDENCE. BOTH WITNESSES BELIEVED THE DEFENDANT WAS STAYING WITH HIS GIRLFRIEND, MS ATHENA FOUSER. WITNESS COAN ADVISED HE HAD SPOKEN WITH THE SUSPECT ON 122916, AND ADVISED HIM THAT DEPUTIES WERE AT HIS RESIDENCE ATTEMPTING TO MAKE CONTACT WITH HIM. ACCORDING TO WITNESS COAN, THE DEFENDANT ADVISED HIM HE DID NOT NEED TO STAY AT THAT ADDRESS TO BE ABLE TO LIST IT AS HIS ADDRESS. IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT I, DEPUTY WEST, CONDUCTED THE CHECK ON 122916, WHICH MET WITH NEGATIVE RESULTS. A RECORDED STATEMENT WAS COLLECTED FROM BOTH WITNESS COAN AND WITNESS CIANCI AND SUBMITTED TO QUETEL. ON 011117, AT APPROXIMATELY 1700 HOURS, I RESPONDED TO 5539 SOUTH WOODSIDE TERRACE AND made CONTACT WITH WITNESS CIANCI. WITNESS CIANCI PROVIDED ME with A RECORDED STATEMENT ADVISING THE DEFENDANT HAD NOT RETURNED TO HER HOME AND SPENT THE NIGHT SINCE THE CHECK ON 010217. WITNESS CIANCI STATED THAT THE DEFENDANT ARRIVED AT THE RESIDENCE A FEW DAYS AFTER MY CONTACT ON 010217 WHERE HE STAYED FOR A BRIEF TIME, APPROXIMATELY TEN TO 15 MINUTES, AND QUICKLY LEFT THE RESIDENCE AGAIN. SHE ADVISED SHE HAD NOT SEEN HIM SINCE. WITNESS CIANCI STATED SINCE THE INITIAL CONTACT BY THIS DEPUTY, THE DEFENDANT HAD NOT STAYED AT her RESIDENCE AT ALL. THE RECORDED STATEMENT FROM WITNESS CIANCI WAS SUBMITTED TO QUETEL. ON 011117, AT APPROXIMATELY 2212 HOURS, DEPUTY WHIRLE (1305) AND I WENT TO 4936 SOUTH ROEBUCK WAY IN HOMOSASSA, IN REFERENCE TO ATTEMPTING TO LOCATE THE DEFENDANT. CONTACT WAS made WITH AN UNIDENTIFIED MALE AT THE FRONT DOOR, WHO ADVISED the DEFENDANT WAS STAYING AT THE RESIDENCE, AT WHICH POINT HE WALKED INTO THE BACKROOM AND RETRIEVED THE DEFENDANT. I ASKED THE DEFENDANT WHEN THE LAST TIME HE STAYED AT WOODSIDE TERRACE WAS. the DEFENDANT ADVISED IT WAS AROUND CHRISTMAS. I ASKED THE DEFENDANT IF HE HAD BEEN STAYING AT 4936 NORTH ROEBUCK WAY SINCE CHRISTMAS, TO which HE ADVISED MOSTLY. THE DEFENDANT ESTIMATED that SINCE CHRISTMAS HE HAD STAYED AT THAT LOCATION EVERYDAY, EXCEPT FOR APPROXIMATELY FIVE DAYS. I ASKED THE DEFENDANT IF HE HAD SPENT THE NIGHT AT HIS REGISTERED LOCATION ANYTIME SINCE THEN, TO WHICH HE ADVISED NO. THE DEFENDANT STATED HE STILL LIVED AT THE WOODSIDE TERRACE RESIDENCE. I ASKED the DEFENDANT IF HE HAD EVER REGISTERED AT 4936 SOUTH ROEBUCK WAY AS A TEMPORARY ADDRESS WITH THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE, TO WHICH HE STATED NO. AT THAT TIME, I PLACED the DEFENDANT UNDER ARREST FOR FAILURE TO REGISTER A TEMPORARY ADDRESS. THE DEFENDANT WAS HANDCUFFED (DOUBLE LOCKED) BEHIND HIS BACK, SEARCHED AND SECURED IN the REAR OF MY PATROL VEHICLE. THE DEFENDANT WAS TRANSPORTED TO the CITRUS COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY FOR PROCESSING, WHERE HIS BOND WAS SET AT $5,000.00, PER THE BOND SCHEDULE. |
