| Probable cause affidavit: |
SUBMITTED By: POLLARD, RANDALL 0677 (AR10117665) did knowingly, willfully and feloniously be in the actual or constructive possession of a controlled substance, to-wit: POWDER COCAINE AND CRACK COCAINE, in violation of Florida Statutes 893.13(6)(B) and 893.03(C)(D) ON 102910, WHILE ON ROUTINE PATROL IN the AREA OF NORTHEAST 3RD AVENUE AND NORTHEAST 11TH STREET IN CRYSTAL RIVER, I OBSERVED A SILVER GMC PICK-UP ROLL THROUGH THAT STOP SIGN WHILE DRIVING SOUTHBOUND ON NORTHEAST 3RD AVENUE. I THEN CONDUCTED A TRAFFIC STOP ON THAT VEHICLE IN THE AREA OF NORTHEAST 5TH STREET AND NORTHEAST 8TH AVENUE. UPON APPROACHING THE DRIVER'S SIDE OF THE VEHICLE, I MADE CONTACT with the DRIVER, MS CAPRI VICKERS. I THEN ASKED HER FOR HER DRIVER'S LICENSE AND VEHICLE REGISTRATION. CAPRI could NOT PROVIDE ME WITH HER DRIVER'S LICENSE; HOWEVER, DID PROVIDE ME WITH her DRIVER'S LICENSE NUMBER. I THEN OBTAINED AN IDENTIFICATION CARD OF THE FRONT SEAT PASSENGER, MR KEITH MCKINNON, AND THE REAR PASSENGER MS BERNICE BROWN. I THEN RETURNED TO MY PATROL VEHICLE TO RUN ALL SUBJECTS FOR WANTS AND WARRANTS AND TO CHECK the DRIVER'S LICENSE STATUS OF THE DRIVER, MS CAPRI VICKERS. WHILE RUNNING THOSE SUBJECTS CANINE DEPUTY NEWTON ARRIVED ON SCENE, AT WHICH TIME I REQUESTED SHE WALK HER CANINE AROUND the VEHICLE THAT I HAD STOPPED. AFTER CONDUCTING A WALK AROUND OF THE VEHICLE, DEPUTY NEWTON ADVISED ME that her CANINE ALERTED ON the PASSENGER SIDE OF THE VEHICLE. AT THAT TIME I AGAIN APPROACHED THE VEHICLE AND ASKED ALL OCCUPANTS TO STEP OUT OF THE VEHICLE AND TO STEP TO THE FRONT OF MY PATROL VEHICLE, TO WHICH THEY ALL COMPLIED. UPON SEARCHING UNDER A CUP HOLDER IN the MIDDLE OF THE DRIVER AND PASSENGER SEAT, I FOUND A SMALL PLASTIC BAGGIE CONTAINING A WHITE POWDER SUBSTANCE WHICH I RECOGNIZED THROUGH MY TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE TO BE POWDER COCAINE. AT THAT TIME, I FINISHED CONDUCTING A SEARCH OF THE VEHICLE AND THEN RETURNED TO MY PATROL VEHICLE TO CONDUCT A PRESUMPTIVE FIELD TEST ON THE WHITE POWDER, TO WHICH IT DID TEST POSITIVE FOR COCAINE. I THEN SHOWED DEPUTY NEWTON the CLEAR PLASTIC BAGGIE that WAS FOUND CONTAINING COCAINE, AT WHICH TIME MR KEITH MCKINNON WHO WAS THE FRONT SEAT PASSENGER SAID, "DEPUTY I'LL TAKE THE BLAME FOR THAT". AFTER HIS SPONTANEOUS STATEMENT, I REMOVED MR MCKINNON FROM the OTHER TWO OCCUPANTS AND READ HIM HIS MIRANDA RIGHTS VIA A PREPRINTED CARD. MR MCKINNON DID STATE THAT HE DOES USE COCAINE; HOWEVER, THE COCAINE INSIDE the VEHICLE WAS NOT HIS. MR MCKINNON STATED THAT UPON ME PULLING OVER THE VEHICLE, MS CAPRI VICKERS TOLD HIM TO HIDE THE COCAINE FOR HER. MR MCKINNON STATED HE DID NOT WANT TO DO THAT, SO HE HANDED THE COCAINE BACK TO HER. HE ALSO STATED THAT HE CANNOT LOOSE HIS JOB BY TAKING THE RAP FOR HIS COUSIN MS CAPRI VICKERS. I THEN SPOKE TO the BACK SEAT PASSENGER MS BERNICE BROWN, WHO STATED THAT SHE DID NOT KNOW WHO the COCAINE BELONGED TO AND that SHE WAS JUST GETTING A RIDE FROM the DRIVER MS CAPRI VICKERS. I THEN SPOKE TO MS CAPRI VICKERS, WHO STATED THAT THE COCAINE WAS NOT HERS AND SHE HAD NO IDEA THE COCAINE WAS INSIDE the VEHICLE. CAPRI STATED THE COCAINE WAS HER COUSIN'S MR KEITH MCKINNON'S. AT THAT TIME, BOTH MS CAPRI VICKERS AND MR KEITH MCKINNON WERE PLACED UNDER ARREST FOR POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE. THE REAR PASSENGER MS BERNICE BROWN WAS RELEASED ON SCENE, DUE TO THE POSITIONING OF THE POWDER COCAINE. the VEHICLE WAS THEN RELEASED TO the REGISTERED OWNER. UPON ARRIVAL AT THE CITRUS COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY, I ASKED MR KEITH MCKINNON IF HE HAD ANY OTHER CONTRABAND ON HIS PERSON WHICH I HAD NOT FOUND DURING MY SEARCH, TO WHICH HE STATED HE BELIEVES HE HAS SOME SMALL CRUSHED CRACK COCAINE IN HIS POCKET. AT THAT TIME, I PULLED HIS SHIRT POCKET INSIDE OUT AND REMOVED SEVERAL SMALL PIECES OF CRACK COCAINE. MS CAPRI VICKERS AND MR KEITH MCKINNON WERE THEN RELEASED TO CITRUS COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY PERSONNEL FOR BOOKING AND PROCESSING. THE CRACK COCAINE FOUND IN MR MCKINNON'S SHIRT POCKET WAS IN NO WAY SIMILAR TO THE POWDER COCAINE FOUND in the VEHICLE THAT MS CAPRI VICKERS AND MR KEITH MCKINNON OCCUPIED. THE CRACK COCAINE FOUND IN MR MCKINNON'S SHIRT POCKET AND THE POWDER COCAINE FOUND INSIDE THE VEHICLE WILL BE WEIGHED AND PLACED IN TO EVIDENCE AT THE CITRUS COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER (EOC). MS CAPRI VICKERS WAS ISSUED A WARNING FOR ROLLING THROUGH the STOP SIGN AT NORTHEAST 3RD STREET AND 11TH STREET, WARNING NUMBER 312634B. MS CAPRI VICKERS' BOND WAS SET AT $5,000.00, PER THE BOND SCHEDULE. MR KEITH MCKINNON'S BOND WAS SET AT A TOTAL OF $10,000.00, PER THE BOND SCHEDULE. *NOT-EXEMPT* "If you are a person with a disability who needs any accommodation in order to participate in this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact the ADA Coordinator at the Office of the Trial Court Administrator, Citrus County Courthouse, 110 North Apopka Avenue, Inverness, Florida 34450, Telephone (352) 341-6700, at least 7 days before your scheduled court appearance, or immediately upon receiving this notification if the time before the scheduled appearance is less than 7 days; if you are hearing or voice impaired, call 711.” |
