| Probable cause affidavit: |
SUBMITTED BY: POLLARD, RANDALL 0677 (AR15-16545) DID UNLAWFULLY HAVE IN HIS ACTUAL OR CONSTRUCTIVE POSSESSION A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE, TO WIT: A SMALL CLEAR PLASTIC BAGGIE CONTAINING METHAMPHETAMINE, IN VIOLATION OF FLORIDA STATE STATUTE 893.13(6)(A). DID UNLAWFULLY HAVE IN HIS 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: TWO USED HYPODERMIC SYRINGES, ONE WITH METHAMPHETAMINE RESIDUE, IN VIOLATION OF FLORIDA STATE STATUTE 893.147(1). ON 092315, WHILE ON FOOT PATROL IN THE AREA OF WEST OLIVER STREET IN HOMOSASSA, I OBSERVED A BICYCLE TRAVELING ON OLIVER STREET NEAR WILLARD STREET. AT THAT TIME, SERGEANT MARSHALL AND I APPROACHED THE BICYCLE, WHICH DID NOT HAVE A FRONT LIGHT, NOR DID IT HAVE A RED LIGHT ATTACHED ON THE BACK OF THE BICYCLE. WE STOPPED THE SUBJECT ON THE BICYCLE, WHO IDENTIFIED HIMSELF AS BRYAN CLARENCE REYNOLDS, AND WAS LATER IDENTIFIED AS THE DEFENDANT. SERGEANT MARSHALL ASKED THE DEFENDANT IF HE HAD ANY WEAPONS ON HIM AND HE COULD SEE BULGES IN HIS RIGHT FRONT POCKETS. SERGEANT MARSHALL ASKED THE DEFENDANT IF HE COULD EMPTY HIS POCKETS, WHICH HE AGREED TO, AND THERE WAS NO CONTRABAND WAS FOUND. SERGEANT MARSHALL ASKED THE DEFENDANT WHO WAS HOLDING A BACKPACK, IF HE COULD SHOW HIM WHAT WAS INSIDE THE BACKPACK. UPON THE DEFENDANT OPENING THE FRONT FLAP OF THE BACKPACK, SERGEANT MARSHALL AND I COULD SEE TWO USED SYRINGES AT THE BOTTOM OF THE POCKET. THE SYRINGES WERE REMOVED FROM THE BACKPACK AND PRESUMPTIVE FIELD TESTED FOR METHAMPHETAMINE. ONE OF THE TWO SYRINGES DID TEST POSITIVE FOR METHAMPHETAMINE. SERGEANT MARSHALL ASKED THE DEFENDANT IF HE HAD ANY OTHER ILLEGAL NARCOTICS ON HIM, TO WHICH THE DEFENDANT STATED that HE DID NOT. THE DEFENDANT WAS WEARING A CAMOUFLAGE VEST with SEVERAL POCKETS ON IT. THE FRONT LEFT POCKET NEAR THE DEFENDANTâS LEFT COLLAR BONE WAS PARTIALLY OPEN AND SERGEANT MARSHALL ADVISED THAT HE COULD SEE A BAGGIE INSIDE OF THE POCKET. THE DEFENDANT WAS HANDCUFFED (DOUBLE LOCKED)BEHIND HIS BACK FOR THE POSSESSION OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIA. UPON REMOVING THE BAGGIE FROM THE DEFENDANTâS LEFT FRONT POCKET THERE WAS A CRYSTAL LIKE SUBSTANCE INSIDE THE BAGGIE, WHICH I RECOGNIZED THROUGH MY TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE TO BE METHAMPHETAMINE. A PRESUMPTIVE FIELD TEST WAS CONDUCTED ON THE CRYSTAL LIKE SUBSTANCE AND IT did TEST POSITIVE FOR METHAMPHETAMINE. UNIT MEMBERS THEN REQUESTED DEPUTY WEST TO RESPOND TO OUR LOCATION TO TRANSPORT THE DEFENDANT TO THE CITRUS COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY FOR BOOKING AND PROCESSING. THE METHAMPHETAMINE AND NEEDLES that WERE SEIZED WILL BE WEIGHED AND PLACED INTO EVIDENCE AT THE EOC (EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER). THE DEFENDANT WAS CHARGED WITH POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE WITH A BOND OF $2,000.00, AND WITH POSSESSION OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIA WITH A BOND OF $1,000.00, FOR A TOTAL BOND SET AT $3,000.00, PER THE BOND SCHEDULE. |
