| Probable cause affidavit: |
SUBMITTED BY: WARD, JOHN 0603 (AR09107432) DID UNLAWFULLY HAVE IN HIS ACTUAL OR CONSTRUCTIVE POSSESSION A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE, TO WIT: 6.5 GRAMS OF COCAINE, IN VIOLATION OF FLORIDA STATE STATUTE 893.13(6)(A). ON 013009 AT APPROXIMATELY 0054 HOURS, I WAS CONDUCTING A SECURITY CHECK OF RAILS TO TRAILS, WHEN I PASSED BEHIND THE BLUE IGUANA. UPON DOING SO, I WITNESSED SEVERAL SUBJECTS STANDING IN the BACK PARKING LOT AROUND A VEHICLE. I THEN STOPPED MY PATROL VEHICLE AND GOT out. UPON EXITING MY PATROL VEHICLE, I OBSERVED WHAT APPEARED TO BE SUSPICIOUS DRUG ACTIVITY GOING ON. I OBSERVED TWO WHITE MALES, ONE BLACK MALE, AND THREE WHITE FEMALES GETTING IN AND OUT OF THE VEHICLE AND ACTING VERY STRANGE. I THEN GOT DISPATCHED TO ANOTHER CALL AND LEFT THE AREA. AFTER CLEARING THAT CALL, I RETURNED TO RAILS TO TRAILS BEHIND THE BLUE IGUANA, AND FIVE MINUTES WENT BY WHEN I OBSERVED TWO WHITE MALES AND ONE BLACK MALE GET INSIDE THE SAME VEHICLE IN THE BACK PARKING LOT. I THEN CONTACTED CANINE DEPUTY PRICE WHO WAS IN THE AREA, AND ADVISED HIM TO GO TO the BACK PARKING LOT OF THE BLUE IGUANA AS I WAS GOING TO GO AND MAKE CONSENSUAL CONTACT with THE SUSPECTS. UPON WALKING UP TO THE VEHICLE, I LOOKED INSIDE THE DRIVER SIDE WINDOW AND OBSERVED the WHITE MALE LATER IDENTIFIED AS DEFENDANT ONE, MR JOSEPH CATES. DEFENDANT ONE WAS SITTING IN THE DRIVER SEAT CUTTING A WHITE POWDERY SUBSTANCE WITH AN IDENTIFICATION CARD ON the CENTER CONSOLE. AT THAT TIME, DEFENDANT ONE LOOKED AT ME AND WITH HIS RIGHT HAND HE SWEPT AWAY ALL OF THE POWDERY SUBSTANCE OFF THE CENTER CONSOLE ONTO THE FLOOR OF THE VEHICLE. AT THIS TIME, I OPENED UP the DOOR AND TOOK DEFENDANT ONE OUT OF THE VEHICLE AND PLACED HIM IN FRONT OF DEPUTY PRICE'S PATROL VEHICLE. DURING THIS TIME, DEPUTY PRICE HAD TAKEN THE BLACK MALE, LATER IDENTIFIED AS DEFENDANT TWO, MR ROY L JOHNSON, OUT OF THE VEHICLE. I THEN HAD THE WHITE MALE, WHO WAS SITTING IN the BACK PASSENGER SEAT GET OUT OF THE VEHICLE. DEPUTY PRICE AND I WERE CONDUCTING A SEARCH OF THE VEHICLE, WHEN I DISCOVERED A MINUTE AMOUNT OF WHAT APPEARED TO BE COCAINE ON the FLOORBOARD OF the VEHICLE. the SUSPECTED COCAINE WAS FIELD TESTED ON SIGHT, AND YIELDED A POSITIVE RESULT FOR COCAINE. I THEN SECURED DEFENDANT ONE IN HANDCUFFS BEHIND HIS BACK (DOUBLE-LOCKED), AND CONDUCTED A PAT SEARCH. WHILE SEARCHING HIS PERSON, I DISCOVERED A clear PLASTIC BAG OF WHAT APPEARED TO BE MARIJUANA IN HIS RIGHT FRONT POCKET, AT WHICH TIME DEFENDANT ONE STATED THAT IT WAS NOT HIS. DEPUTY PRICE THEN ADVISED DEFENDANT TWO, TO PLACE EVERYTHING IN HIS POCKETS ONTO THE HOOD OF THE PATROL VEHICLE. UPON DEFENDANT TWO DOING SO, I OBSERVED THREE SMALL CLEAR PLASTIC BAGGIES CONTAINING WHAT APPEARED TO BE COCAINE, COME OUT OF HIS RIGHT FRONT POCKET ALONG WITH SOME MONEY. I FIELD TESTED THE SUBSTANCE AND IT ALSO YIELDED A POSITIVE RESULT FOR COCAINE. DEFENDANT TWO WAS THEN PLACED IN HANDCUFFS (DOUBLE-LOCKED) BEHIND HIS back. BOTH DEFENDANT'S WERE PLACED UNDER ARREST AND SECURED IN the REAR SEAT OF my PATROL VEHICLE. THEY WERE THEN TRANSPORTED TO THE CITRUS COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY FOR BOOKING AND PROCESSING. UPON ARRIVAL AT THE DETENTION FACILITY, the MARIJUANA WAS WEIGHED AT 6.5 GRAMS. THE THREE SMALL BAGGIES OF COCAINE WERE PLACED IN A SMALL MANILA ENVELOPE WITH AND WEIGHED, WITH THE TOTAL WEIGHT BEING 6.5 GRAMS. ALL EVIDENCE WAS PACKAGED AND TURNED IN TO THE CITRUS COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE EVIDENCE LOCKER. DEFENDANT NUMBER ONE'S BOND WAS SET AT $500.00, PER THE BOND SCHEDULE. DEFENDANT NUMBER TWO'S BOND WAS SET AT $5,000.00, PER THE BOND SCHEDULE. IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT DEFENDANT NUMBER TWO ALLOWED his FRIEND TO PICK UP THE VEHICLE. *NOT-EXEMPT* |
