BBM- Hartman certainly fits that profile, MOO.
Look at all the agencies involved. LE can't get warrants based on overheard conversations, rumor, innuendo or speculation. There's a very specific reason this man's business and home are being searched.
Please God, help them find Lindsey!!!!!
I would disagree that "speculation" could never be the basis for which a SW may be issued.
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2011/10/19/1870535/mccleary-warrants-served-in-lindsey.html
The individual who owns Hartman’s Jewelry Repair and a residence northwest of town is “one of many persons of interest we’ve had contact with over the course of this investigation, which is now in its 20th [sic] month,” Pimentel added. The man is not considered a suspect in Lindsey’s disappearance, he added.
When LE is up against the wall, with only minimal evidence and eyewitness accounts of observation within an obviously limited physical potential crime scene route, along with (possibly inconsistent) responses from a POI that don't match up to being a valid alibi, I should think "speculation" might equate to an LE "educated guess" and become the basis for a SW to further the investigation.
The jewelry store is along the expected route LB would travel.
Eyewitnesses place LB within 10s of yards immediately before the jewelry store.
Surveillance recordings from the gas station do not reveal LB passing within the limited viewing angles of the cameras.
The jewelry store owner allegedly has provided changing stories regarding his whereabouts that evening.
Proof of nothing, yet LE had to make an "educated guess" (i.e.: "speculate" on possibilities) and submit for a SW.
Here's another example of an LE "educated guess" SW:
http://www.kirotv.com/news/21186766/detail.html
The sheriff's office said it knows the search was hard on the family that lives in the home, but deputies said they are "doing everything in our power and our legal authority to find Lindsey Baum."
Eyewitnesses place a white vehicle in the vicinity that evening.
The vehicle owner misrepresented his whereabouts multiple times for that evening.
It was reported by a gf that the vehicle owner indicated a belief that LB had been "cut up".
What might be interpreted as incriminating behavior and commentary doesn't always result in finding a 'perp' .. but apparently it's enough for with which to obtain a SW.