Santa Barbara County sheriff’s custody deputies found an array of illegal narcotics and other prohibited items inside a County Jail housing unit this week in what could be the largest such seizure in the facility’s history.
The contraband — with an estimated value of $15,000 to $20,000 “in a custody setting” — was discovered Tuesday when jail personnel conducted a search of the housing unit, said Kelly Hoover, a sheriff’s spokeswoman.
An inmate, Dylan Sulit-Swalley, 30, of Santa Barbara, was removed from the housing unit, thoroughly search, and the contraband items were found on his person, Hoover said.
Suit-Swally was booked on charges of bringing drugs into a jail and bringing drugs into a jail for sale.
He is not eligible for bail due to a parole hold, Hoover said.
“This was likely the largest seizure of contraband in Santa Barbara County sheriff’s custody history,” Hoover said.
The items seized included:
» A cell phone.
» An altered cell phone charger.
» USB AC Apple charger block.
» A USB cable.
» A vape.
» Two vials of THC concentrate.
» Three full THC concentrate cartridges for the vape.
» A lighter.
» Two syringes containing heroin.
» 31 Adderall pills
» 3 Buprenorphine pills.
» 8.7 grams of tobacco.
» 4.0 grams of methamphetamine.
» 4.4 grams of heroin
» Several suspected Ecstasy pills.
» 16.4 grams of crushed Adderall pills.
» Two Torx drill bit/suspected to remove floor drains to hide contraband.
» A large rubber band tie-off to inject heroin.
» One piece of foil used to heat the heroin.
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