FLAGLER COUNTY, Fla. – On Thursday morning, Flagler County deputies shut down a drug house after an overdose death happened there earlier this month, according to the sheriff’s office.
In a release, deputies said that the overdose death occurred on March 6 at 1261 County Road 302 in Bunnell.
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As a result, investigators obtained a search warrant and pored over the home on Thursday, seizing fentanyl, methamphetamine, cocaine, PCP, and a firearm, the release shows.
Based on the search results, deputies said they arrested 10 Bunnell residents.
“Many of these poison peddlers and drug users had lengthy criminal histories with previous arrests on narcotics and theft-related charges, and now they are going back to the Green Roof Inn where they belong,” Sheriff Rick Staly announced. “This warrant started from an investigation into an overdose death, and rest assured that we will continue the investigation until we can hold the poison peddler who caused that death accountable.”
The 10 suspects were identified as follows:
- Ivy Bentz, 38 ($3,500 bond) — Faces charges of possessing fentanyl, methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia
- Stephen Horton, 45 (No bond) — Faces charges of possessing methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia, and resisting an officer without violence
- Joann Isnardi, 60 ($2,500 bond) — Faces charges of possessing methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia
- Darin Lemon, Jr., 38 ($3,000 bond) — Faces a charge of possessing methamphetamine
- Monika Marzec, 38 ($3,000 bond) — Faces charges of possessing methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia
- Jessica McBryde, 36 ($6,000 bond) — Faces charges of possessing methamphetamine, cocaine, fentanyl and drug paraphernalia; and tampering with evidence
- John Mercurio, 26 ($26,000 bond) — Faces charges of possessing PCP and drug paraphernalia, and two counts of firearm possession by a convicted felon
- Glenn Moratto, 39 ($2,500 bond) — Faces charges of possessing methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia
- Robin Strickland, 41 — Faces charges of possessing PCP and drug paraphernalia
- Michael Vanhoose, 62 ($500 bond) — Faces a charge of resisting an officer without violence
