- Hello everyone, I'm Sheriff Wayne Ivey
and you're watching "H.I.T. The Streets".
- [Narrator] They say that crime will rise
to the level a community will tolerate.
In Brevard County, we have zero tolerance for crime.
These are the stories.
(jail cell door closing) (dramatic music)
So, welcome back to another great episode
of "H.I.T. The Streets", and tonight's episode
is a great example of what our Deputies face every day
as they work to take drugs, illegal guns,
and fugitives off our street.
Tonight, we start in our West Precinct where we met
for a quick briefing about the various areas
that had been identified as High Intensity Targets
by our Crime Analyst, and then we hit the streets
to go get it done!
As usual, it didn't take very long for Deputy Kyle Schuck
and Agent Shawn Hanigan to get things started
with a traffic stop at 1050 North Fiske Blvd,
where as the vehicle came to a stop,
Schuck and Hanigan observed movement inside the car
that appeared to be one of the occupants climbing
into the back seat.
- [Schuck] Hey, did you see that?
They jumped to the back.
Hey, careful, careful.
Who just jumped to the back?
Who just jumped to the back seat?
(female voice indistinct)
- [Schuck] You guys switched, that's why.
- [Shamia] Hmm?
- [Schuck] You guys switched seats.
- [Shamia] Me and her?
- [Schuck] Yeah, we just watched you switch.
- [Shamia] No, you said somebody jumped in the back,
nobody got in the back.
- [Schuck] No, you switched,
because you don't have a license, right?
Go ahead and step out.
Girl, you ain't got to do all that.
If you ain't valid, we ain't going
to jam you up for it.
- [Shamia] Oh, okay.
- [Schuck] It makes it a lot worse
when you switch seats, right?
Suspended license, that's it?
- Who got a suspended license?
- [Schuck] You, that's why you switched.
Why did you switch seats?
- [Shamia] She got a suspended license.
- [Schuck] Okay, first name?
- Shamia.
- [Schuck] Can you spell that, Shamia?
- S - H - A - M - I - A.
- [Schuck] Last name?
- Brown, B - R - O - W - N.
- [Schuck] Why is your voice still shaking?
You still nervous?
- You said what?
- Your voice is still shaking, you're still nervous.
- No, I got a little cold, (sniffs) a little (coughs),
you know. (clears throat)
- [Schuck] What's your middle initial Shamia?
- B. - [Schuck] Birthday?
- Zero, wait wait, 03/14/1997.
- [Shcuck] You just gave me a fake birthday.
- How?
- [Schuck] Everybody knows their birthday immediately,
you don't have to think about it.
- No, no no no, wait.
- [Schuck] What's your Social Security number?
- I don't know my Social.
- [Schuck] All right, put your hands behind your back.
- [Shamia] Damn, why?
- [Schuck] Because you gave me a fake answer.
- [Shamia] Why did I give you a fake answer?
- [Schuck] Everybody knows their Social,
everybody knows their birthday.
- [Sheriff Ivey] As you could see in the video,
Bellamy, who first gave the Deputies a false name,
was originally driving the car,
and switched seats because she had a suspended license,
and was also on felony probation with restrictions
that actually prohibited her from leaving her residence.
Bellamy was subsequently taken into custody
for Driving While License Suspended with Knowledge,
and also for Violation of Probation.
She was transported to the Brevard County Jail
on a "no bond" status.
Our next little adventure takes us to 904 Peachtree Street
in Cocoa where Agent Matt Rush observed Theodore Hicks
sitting on the side of a business selling drugs.
As part of the case, Agent Rush was on surveillance
and observed Hicks removing a small substance
from his pants pocket and handing it
to another subject as the two exchanged money
for the substance.
After observing the transaction,
Agents Rush and Dunn approached Mr. Hicks,
and following a consent to search,
found Hicks to be in possession of a large clear plastic bag
that he was holding in his left hand
that contained several small individually packaged bags
that contained a white, brownish substance.
Also located during the search was
an additional clear plastic bag
containing several small white rocks
that appeared to be Crack Cocaine.
As you might imagine, Hicks had an explanation
for why he had the drugs...
- [Rush] So, you're just up there handing off...
- [Hicks] Yeah, I'm just giving them a little something
to get them going.
That's what I do, I just give it away, I don't (indistinct).
- You know the little small baggies?
- [Hicks] I don't know nothing about them.
- Okay, they were the ones that were in your hand.
- [Hicks] Yeah, somebody just had handed me them.
- Do you understand that they tested positive
for fentanyl? - [Hicks] For fentanyl?
- Yeah, so-
- [Hicks] I didn't know nothing about that.
- Okay, that's what I'm saying.
I'm making sure for your knowledge is
that they're testing positive for fentanyl.
- [Hicks] No.
- [Sheriff Ivey] While Agent Rush is a super nice guy,
I'm not sure he is buying Hick's story
as he actually watched the transaction take place.
Either way, the substance from the first baggie recovered
by Rush and Dunn field tested positive for Fentanyl,
and the second substance from the second baggie
field tested positive for Crack Cocaine.
As a result, Hicks was transported
to the Brevard County Jail on a total bond of $5,000
for Possession of Cocaine,
Possession of a Controlled Substance,
and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia.
All right, now we head over to the Cumberland Farms
at 1450 West King Street in Cocoa
where Agent David Turbeville, or "Turbo" as we call him,
got a great pop on a drug trafficker
who thought he was outsmarting us,
by throwing his cache of drugs into a nearby garbage can.
What the drug dealer, Derrick Jones, didn't know,
was that Undercover Agents had been watching him
the entire time as he took possession of the drugs
from his vehicle after coming out of the store.
The funny part is that when Jones came out of the store,
we had his friend stopped in the parking lot
on an unrelated matter, and Jones got scared
and threw his load of drugs into the garbage can,
because he thought if we were watching his friend,
then he was next to get stopped.
Of course our Agents went dumpster diving, as we call it,
and recovered the tan in color satchel that Jones tried
to conceal the drugs in, and what do you know...
In total, the bag contained approximately 72.2 grams
of a white powdery substance that field tested positive
for cocaine.
Also located inside the bag were portions
of broken and unbroken light yellow colored tablets
that field tested positive for Ecstasy.
And of course, no self respecting drug dealer would
be caught without Ziplock baggies and a digital scale,
so that was found inside the satchel as well.
Jones, in a post Miranda interview,
confessed to possessing the drugs and throwing them
in the garbage can because he got scared when he saw
that his friend had been stopped by our Deputies.
Jones was loaded in our Transport Vehicle and was taken
to the Brevard County Jail on a "No Bond" status
for Trafficking in Cocaine
and Possession of a Controlled Substance.
Next up in the "how do I get a free ride to jail" contest
is Brian Jackson who was wanted on an active warrant
for Sexual Offender Failure To Report,
Temporary Transient or Permanent Residence Information.
Agent Randy Truitt grabbed Jackson
after he developed information on where he was located
near the 800 block of North Fiske Blvd. in Cocoa.
Jackson, as you can see, was transported
to the Brevard County Jail where he was held in accordance
with the instructions of the warrant on a "No Bond" status.
Now our next case takes place around 6000 North US Highway 1
in Cocoa when K-9 Deputy Lauren Donaldson
makes a traffic stop on a white Chevy Malibu,
and then observes that the back seat passenger
of the vehicle, Kaleb Rodell, is extremely fidgety
and trying to conceal something.
Rodell was asked several times to stop moving around,
but apparently he didn't pass "listening" when he was
in school, so other units responded to assist
with the stop, at which time Deputy Andrew Johnson
used K-9 Romeo to conduct a free air sniff
of the vehicle resulting in a positive alert
for the presence of drugs.
Well, as you can see from the video,
Rodell had a reason to be fidgety,
and also to try and conceal stuff,
as he was found to be in possession of a glass pipe
for methamphetamine, multiple straws,
and a baggie containing 1.5 grams of Meth
that was found during a search of his groin area
by Deputies at the scene.
An additional baggie was located down inside Rodell's pants
during a second search of his person
that contained approximately 1.5 grams of a substance
that field tested positive as Heroin.
Rodell was transported to the Brevard County Jail
on a bond of $5,000 for Possession of Heroin,
Possession of Meth, and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia.
So, since we were having such great luck
taking bad people off the streets of our West Precinct,
we thought we would move North for a little bit
and see what was happening in the Titusville area.
What we soon learned is that what was happening
in Titusville was taking place on Garden Street
as K-9 Deputy Tyler Habart conducted a traffic stop
on a U-Haul Truck and starts engaging
with the driver and passenger.
- [Deputy Habart] Let me see your other hand.
K12 I'll be 1050 at Park and Garden
on a U-Haul truck, I'll get you tag in a minute.
(background chatter)
Hop out here for a minute, talk to me.
- [Driver] Oh, I was trying to help a-
- [Deputy Habart] Both of you guys hop out here
and talk to me.
- [Driver] Yeah, okay, that dude that run.
- [Deputy Habart] Just stand right here,
you're good bro, just chill out.
- [Driver] What happened, man?
- [Deputy Habart] Hey, give me your ID like I asked you to.
- [Driver] (indistinct) right here,
but like I said, we were trying to help that old guy, man.
- [Teea] Yeah, that old guy got-
- [Deputy Habart] We're not about that right now,
we're about this traffic stop, okay?
That's what we're dealing with right now, okay?
- [Driver] Okay, okay, okay.
- [Teea] Well, why do I have to get out?
Because you pulled him over.
- [Deputy Habart] Because I asked you to.
- [Sheriff Ivey] Well, the passenger of the vehicle,
Teea Kerestegian had an active warrant for her arrest
for Failure to Appear For Possession of a Firearm,
and then was also found to be in possession
of drug paraphernalia and possession of cocaine.
Kerestegian was subsequently transported
to the Brevard County Jail
on the "No Bond" Failure to Appear warrant
and the other associated charges.
Now, you are probably wondering what Schuck
and Hanigan have been up to,
so lets check in on them as they conduct a traffic stop
near WC Stafford Street and South DeLeon Avenue
in Titusville.
- [Schuck] Hey, what are you guys doing, man?
- [Driver] We just left his house.
- Oh, okay, well you're sitting at this intersection
with the lights off,
and then you were backing up a little bit, so...
- [Driver] No, I turned my car off so his phone
could connect to the Bluetooth.
- [Schuck] Oh, you were trying to get the music going.
- [Driver] Yeah.
- [Schuck] Do you guys have your ID's?
Any guns in the car, guys?
(police radio chatter)
You hesitated.
- [Driver] No, I didn't hear what you said at first.
No, I don't have any.
- [Schuck] No guns? - [Driver] No, (indistinct)
- [Schuck] Okay.
- [Sheriff Ivey] While the occupants of the stopped vehicle
explained the reason for their driving actions,
Deputy Schuck could smell the odor of burnt marijuana
from inside the vehicle and observed
that the occupants became extremely nervous
when asked about having firearms inside the vehicle.
- [Shuck] Hey Fletch, he really hesitated when I asked
about a gun, so...
(police radio chatter)
Pistol?
I knew it. (background chatter)
- [Schuck] Yeah, I knew it.
- [Sheriff Ivey] As a result of the traffic stop
and subsequent search of the vehicle and it's occupants,
both subjects were found to have
in their possession a firearm.
Eaddy had his firearm tucked in his waistband,
and Hammond-Britt had a loaded firearm immediately
under his seat.
Also located during the search of the vehicle
was approximately 4 grams of cannabis that was seized
for destruction along with both firearms in the case
that were seized as evidence.
Nathanial Eaddy was arrested and transported
to the Brevard County Jail on a $2,000 bond
for Possession of a Concealed Firearm,
and Darnell Hammond-Britt was also arrested
on a $2,000 bond for Possession of a Concealed Firearm.
Well, that's all for tonight's episode
of "H.I.T. The Streets", but as you can see,
it was another great night
for the "H.I.T. The Streets" Team,
and another great night for the citizens of Brevard County,
who can sleep safe and sound in their beds knowing
that the brave men and women
of the Brevard County Sheriff's Office are out
on the street working to keep them safe!
Crime will rise to the level a community will tolerate,
and in Brevard County we don't tolerate anything!
Why...because this is Brevard County,
where we are tough on crime and even tougher on criminals!
See you next time on "H.I.T. The Streets".
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