The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office made 13 arrests, handled 756 calls for service, and conducted 140 traffic stops between 6 p.m. on Friday, June 26, and 6 a.m. on Monday, June 29, 2026. Among the weekend’s highlighted incidents were the arrest of a Lake County fugitive found with methamphetamine and a traffic stop in Bunnell that led to the discovery of fentanyl, methamphetamine, a handgun, and other narcotics in trafficking quantities.
On Friday evening, deputies served a fugitive warrant at a residence on Clarendon Court North in Palm Coast, where they located Jeffrey Bush, 35, of Deltona, sitting inside a pickup truck in the driveway. Bush was wanted in Lake County for a violation of probation stemming from an original charge of burglary. As deputies ordered him out of the vehicle, they observed him remove an object from his pocket and throw it onto the floorboard. A search of Bush turned up a cut straw commonly associated with snorting illegal narcotics. A search of the vehicle then uncovered a glasses case containing a glass pipe, two small bags of methamphetamine, and two additional straws. Bush was arrested on his active warrant for possession of methamphetamine and violation of probation, and is being held at the Sheriff Perry Hall Inmate Detention Facility without bond. “This guy learned two valuable lessons,” said Sheriff Rick Staly. “First, if you are a fugitive, don’t expect to hide out in Flagler County. Second, if you try to hide or get rid of your illegal narcotics, our deputies will find what you tried to hide and just add another arrest to your criminal history.”
On Saturday afternoon, deputies on patrol along Mahogany Boulevard in Bunnell pulled over a Honda sedan for speeding. The driver, identified as Uriah Sutliff, 24, of Debary, was unable to provide a driver’s license or vehicle documents. Deputies determined Sutliff was driving on a suspended license and had prior knowledge that he should not have been driving, as he had previously been arrested for the same offense. During a vehicle inventory conducted before the car was towed, deputies found a Crown Royal bag inside the glove compartment containing multiple individually packaged bags of fentanyl, methamphetamine, psilocybin mushrooms, and alprazolam. Deputies also recovered a handgun, two scales, and additional empty plastic bags. Sutliff told deputies he was unaware the narcotics were in the vehicle but said they did not belong to any of the other passengers. Sutliff was charged with driving while license suspended (second offense), trafficking in methamphetamine, four counts of possession of fentanyl, four counts of possession of alprazolam, possession of psilocybin mushrooms, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, and possession of drug paraphernalia. He is being held on a $183,500 bond. A passenger in the vehicle, Bernard Stancheck, 25, of Bunnell, was also arrested after deputies found a straw on him with burnt methamphetamine residue. Stancheck was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia and violation of probation and is being held without bond. Both Sutliff and Stancheck have prior criminal histories. Sutliff has previous arrests for fleeing or attempting to elude law enforcement and driving while license suspended, while Stancheck has multiple prior arrests for fentanyl possession, cannabis possession, and drug paraphernalia charges. “What started as a traffic stop turned into a drug bust, getting fentanyl, methamphetamine, and other poison off the street,” said Sheriff Staly. “This was a great job by deputies and a cautionary tale for poison peddlers to stay out of Flagler County.”
