| Probable cause affidavit: |
SUBMITTED BY: SMITH, STEVE 0292 (AR13-6048) 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 POSSESSION, LISTED PRECURSOR CHEMICALS OR ESSENTIAL CHEMICALS USED IN THE MANUFACTURING OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE, IN VIOLATION OF FLORIDA STATE STATUTE 893.149(1)(A). THESE CHEMICALS ARE CRITICAL TO THE CREATION OF THE CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE, TO WIT: METHAMPHETAMINE; AND 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 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: ALUMINUM METHAMPHETAMINE BOATS, BAGGIES, IN VIOLATION OF FLORIDA STATE STATUTES 893.145 AND 893.147(1)(B). ON 061213, A LAWFUL SEARCH WARRANT WAS EXECUTED AT 349 SOUTH THAYER AVENUE, LECANTO. CONTACT WAS MADE WITH THE OCCUPANTS TO INCLUDE THE THREE DEFENDANTS, MS SCHI BAIR, MS DEBORAH DOUGLAS, AND MR DAVID LARIMER, AS WELL AS AN ELDERLY FEMALE. UPON SECURING THE RESIDENCE, THE WARRANT WAS READ TO THE OCCUPANTS AND AT THAT TIME, I CONDUCTED DIGITALLY RECORDED INTERVIEWS WITH THE DEFENDANTS. THE FIRST INTERVIEW CONDUCTED WAS WITH DEFENDANT LARIMER. HE WAS READ MIRANDA FROM A PREPRINTED CARD. WHEN ASKED IF HE UNDERSTOOD HIS RIGHTS HE SAID HE DID. WHEN ASKED IF HE STILL WANTED TO SPEAK TO THIS DEPUTY, HE ADVISED THAT HE DID. DURING THIS INTERVIEW HE CONFESSED THAT HE HAD BEEN USING METHAMPHETAMINE FOR APPROXIMATELY TWO YEARS. HE FURTHER ADVISED THAT HIS PREFERRED WAY OF USE IS TO SMOKE METH USING A METH BOAT, WHICH IS A DEVICE MADE FROM ALUMINUM FOIL. HE ALSO ADVISED THAT HE HAD BEEN MANUFACTURING AT THE RESIDENCE FOR APPROXIMATELY ONE YEAR AND COOKING AT THE RESIDENCE APPROXIMATELY FOUR TO FIVE TIMES A MONTH. HE WENT INTO GREAT DETAIL STATING DIFFERENT LOCATIONS OF WHERE CHEMICALS WOULD BE LOCATED TO INCLUDE A GLASS JAR FULL OF FUEL, WHICH IS ACTUALLY THE VESSEL THAT HE USED TO COOK THE METH IN. HE ADVISED AT THE FAR END OF THE MOBILE HOME IN A ROOM THAT WAS ADDED ON, THERE WOULD BE LIQUID FIRE CANS OF COLEMAN AND THAT WAS THE PRIMARY LOCATION THAT HE MANUFACTURED THE METH. HE ADVISED THAT WHEN HE IS DONE HE PLACES ALL THE METH GARBAGE IN A BURN PILE AND BURNS IT. HE ALSO ADMITTED TO BEING MAXED OUT ON EPHEDRINE AND THAT BOTH DEFENDANT BAIR AND DEFENDANT DOUGLAS PURCHASE EPHEDRINE FOR THE COOKS AND THAT ALL THREE OF THEM SMOKE THE METH NORMALLY ON THE ALUMINUM FOIL. WHEN ASKED WHEN THE LAST TIME HE MANUFACTURED WAS, HE ADVISED A COUPLE OF DAYS AGO. WHEN ASKED WHEN THE LAST TIME HE USED METH WAS, HE ADVISED WITHIN THE PAST TWO DAYS. AT THAT TIME, THE INTERVIEW WAS CONCLUDED AND AN INTERVIEW WAS CONDUCTED WITH DEFENDANT DOUGLAS. SHE WAS READ MIRANDA FROM A PREPRINTED CARD. WHEN ASKED IF SHE UNDERSTOOD HER RIGHTS, SHE ADVISED SHE DID. WHEN ASKED IF SHE STILL WISHED TO SPEAK WITH THIS DEPUTY, SHE ADVISED SHE DID. SHE WAS NOT AS FORTHCOMING AS THE OTHER TWO DEFENDANTS, HOWEVER, SHE DID CONFESS TO PURCHASING EPHEDRINE FOR NUMEROUS MONTHS. SHE STATED THAT SHE PROVIDED ALL OF THE EPHEDRINE TO HER BOYFRIEND, DEFENDANT DAVID LARIMER. SHE ADVISED THAT SHE HAD NEVER PURCHASED CHEMICALS OTHER THAN THE EPHEDRINE. SHE FURTHER STATED THAT WHEN SHE PURCHASED THE EPHEDRINE SHE WAS ALWAYS GIVEN METH, WHICH SHE CONFESSED TO USING BY THE PREFERRED METHOD OF SMOKING IT USING METHAMPHETAMINE BOATS. SHE ALSO STATED THAT THERE WOULD PROBABLY BE BOATS LOCATED IN HER BEDROOM. SHE ALSO WENT ON TO ADVISED THAT NORMALLY WHEN DEFENDANT LARIMER MANUFACTURED IN A TWO BOX COOK, THEY WOULD NORMALLY PRODUCE AROUND TWO GRAMS. SHE ALSO CONFIRMED THAT DEFENDANT LARIMER WAS THE PRIMARY COOK AND THAT SHE AND HER DAUGHTER, DEFENDANT BAIR, SIMPLY USED THE METHAMPHETAMINE FROM THE COOKS AND WOULD PURCHASE THE EPHEDRINE FOR THE COOKS. UPON CONCLUSION OF THE INTERVIEW, A DIGITALLY RECORDED INTERVIEW WAS CONDUCTED WITH DEFENDANT BAIR. SHE WAS READ MIRANDA FROM A PREPRINTED CARD. WHEN ASKED IF SHE UNDERSTOOD HER RIGHTS, SHE ADVISED SHE DID. WHEN ASKED IF SHE STILL WISHED TO SPEAK WITH THIS DEPUTY, SHE ADVISED SHE DID. SHE ALSO CONFIRMED THE OTHER TWO DEFENDANTSâ STATEMENTS. SHE ADVISED THAT SHE HAD BEEN PURCHASING EPHEDRINE FOR THE COOKS FOR AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME/NUMEROUS MONTHS. SHE ALSO CONFESSED TO BUYING LYE ON ONE OCCASION. SHE STATED THAT DEFENDANT LARIMER WOULD CONDUCT THE COOKS AND WHEN THE COOKS WERE FINISHED THE THREE DEFENDANTS WOULD SHARE THE METH THAT WAS PRODUCED. SHE ALSO ADMITTED THAT HER PRIMARY WAY OF USING METH WAS SMOKING IT USING ALUMINUM FOIL BOATS, AND THAT THERE WOULD BE SOME IN THE RESIDENCE. SHE ALSO CONFESSED TO HAVING A PILL IN HER CIGARETTE PACK, WHICH SHE DOES NOT HAVE A PRESCRIPTION FOR. SHE ADVISED SHE HAD BOUGHT THE PILL FROM A FRIEND. IT WAS IDENTIFIED AS A HYDROCODONE 10 MILLIGRAM TABLET. UPON COMPLETION OF THIS INTERVIEW, A SEARCH OF THE AREA, WHICH THE DEFENDANTS ADVISED WAS USED FOR THE MANUFACTURING WAS CONDUCTED AND THE FOLLOWING ITEMS WERE LOCATED: TWO CANS OF COLEMAN FUEL, A PLASTIC BAGGIE CONTAINING REMNANTS OF THE LIQUID FROM A METHAMPHETAMINE COOK, WHICH DID TEST POSITIVE FOR METHAMPHETAMINE, AN HCL GENERATOR, WHICH THE END OF THE HOSE ALSO TESTED POSITIVE FOR METHAMPHETAMINE, NUMEROUS PIECES OF SMALL CUT METAL SHAVINGS FROM BATTERIES AS WELL AS THE REMNANTS OF THE WAX PAPER FROM INSIDE THE LITHIUM BATTERIES, FUNNELS, AND A FUNNEL WHICH HAD BEEN TURNED INTO A SEPARATING DEVICE TO SEPARATE BI-LAYERED LIQUID. THERE WAS PLASTIC BAGGIES THAT WERE LOCATED THAT HAD THE CORNERS CUT OFF AS WELL AS PLASTIC BAGGIES THAT CONTAINED LYE AND AMMONIA NITRATE. INSIDE THE RESIDENCE IN THE BEDROOM ALL THE WAY TO THE NORTH, WHICH HAS A WINDOW THAT OPENS UP INTO THE ADDED AREA WHERE THE MANUFACTURING HAD BEEN OCCURRING, THERE WAS NUMEROUS COFFEE FILTERS, WHICH HAD BEEN USED IN THE MANUFACTURING PROCESS. PLASTIC BAGGIES WERE LOCATED IN THE KITCHEN DRAWER. THERE WAS A BAGGIE CONTAINING LYE AS WELL AS AN EMPTY CONTAINER OF RED DEVIL LYE. WE ALSO RETRIEVED A SUDAFED PACK, WHICH DID STILL CONTAIN SOME OF THE PILLS. IN THE BEDROOM ALL THE WAY TO THE SOUTH ON TOP OF THE BATHROOM CABINET A COLD PACK WAS LOCATED, WHICH DEFENDANT LARIMER ADMITTED WAS THERE, AND IN A DRESSER DRAWER NUMEROUS METHAMPHETAMINE BOATS, WHICH HAD BEEN USED AS WELL AS A SMALL PLASTIC BAGGIE CONTAINING TRACE AMOUNT OF METHAMPHETAMINE, WHICH DID TEST POSITIVE, WERE LOCATED. LOCATED IN THE BURN PILE TO THE REAR OF THE RESIDENCE, THERE WAS A LARGE AMOUNT OF LITHIUM BATTERY CASINGS, SUDAFED BOXES, BLISTER PACKS, AND BINDER FROM THE REMNANTS OF THE METHAMPHETAMINE COOK. IN MY TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE DUE TO THE AMOUNT OF THE BINDER THAT WAS IN THE BURN PILE, IT WOULD CONFIRM DEFENDANT LARIMERâS CONFESSION OF COOKING APPROXIMATELY FIVE TIMES A MONTH FOR OVER A YEAR. ALL HAZARDOUS ITEMS WERE COLLECTED BY ME AND DEPUTY PARSON AND TRANSPORTED TO THE CITRUS COUNTY LANDFILL HAZMAT SECTION FOR DESTRUCTION. THE ITEMS DEEMED NON-HAZARDOUS WERE COLLECTED BY DEPUTY LUDLOW AND TURNED IN TO EVIDENCE. ALL THREE DEFENDANTâS WERE ARRESTED, HANDCUFFED SECURED IN THE REAR OF PATROL VEHICLES AND TRANSPORTED WITHOUT INCIDENT. BOTH DEFENDANT DOUGLAS AND DEFENDANT BAIR WERE RELEASED ON THEIR OWN RECOGNIZANCE (ROR). DEFENDANT LARIMERâS BOND WAS SET AT $160,500.00 PER THE BOND SCHEDULE. |
