On July 31, 2018, the Classification Unit gathered information that illegal narcotics were being stored in a housing unit at the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Main Jail. After Classification and the Shift Commanders put a plan in place, the housing unit was searched. During the search, 30-year-old Dylan Sulit-Swalley of Santa Barbara was removed from the housing unit and thoroughly searched. The following contraband, worth $15,000 to $20,000 dollars in a custody setting, was found on his person. This was likely the largest seizure of contraband in Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Custody history. The items included:
- One Cell Phone
- One Altered Cell Phone Charger
- One USB AC Apple Charger Block
- One USB Cable
- One Vape
- Two Vials of THC Concentrate
- Three Full THC Concentrate Cartridges For The Vape
- One Lighter
- Two Syringes Containing Heroin
- 31 Adderall Pills
- 3 Buprenorphine Pills
- 7 Grams of Tobacco
- 0 Grams Of Methamphetamine
- 4 Grams Of Heroin
- Several Suspected Ecstasy Pills
- 4 Grams Of crushed Adderall Pills
- Two Torx Drill Bit/suspected to remove floor drains to hide contraband
- One large Rubber Band Tie Off to inject heroin
- One Piece of Foil used to heat the heroin
Sulit-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.