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.