Two jailed in bust netting drugs, ammo, stolen car

Deputies found a slew of drugs Sunday in a stolen white Oldsmobile after pursuing an active warrant for a Melrose woman who failed to appear in Clay County court, according to the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office. 

Authorities arrested Melrose woman Amber Caudill, 30, and Bradford County man David Sellers, 41, Sunday evening. Both remained in the Putnam County Jail as of Monday afternoon. Caudill reportedly received a $17,000 bail, per the incident report. She was charged with four felony counts of drug possession, one felony for vehicle theft and a final felony for keeping a public nuisance structure for drug activity, according to the county jail log. 

Sellers reportedly received an $8,000 bail, the incident report states. He was charged with three felonies for drug possession, the jail log states. 

Deputies reported searching Sunday evening on Woodland Lane in Hawthorne, around 7:48 p.m., for Caudill because there was an active warrant out for her arrest because she failed to show up to Clay County court. 

While searching, sheriff’s office deputies reported seeing Caudill driving the Oldsmobile with a man who was later identified as Sellers. 

The responding law enforcement deputies ordered Caudill to get out of the driver’s seat and walk backward, before detaining her in wrist restraints, according to the report. Sellers, too, was later detained. 

Upon searching the vehicle, deputies found the tag attached to the vehicle expired in 2016 and the decal on the tag was registered to a stolen vehicle that was linked to a stolen car case in Gainesville, the report states. 

Deputies also reported finding a jewelry bag with less than one gram of fentanyl, a clear bag with one gram of crack cocaine inside and three grams of boric acid, which “is commonly used to cut narcotics,” the sheriff’s office reported. 

Authorities also confiscated another jewelry bag with one gram of methamphetamine, a bottle of nine blue pills located in a backpack that deputies identified as morphine sulfate, the agency reported. The agency also reported finding eight unspent .38 special rounds in the black backpack.