A Santa Barbara man is in custody after the sheriff’s department said he injected a 17-year-old girl he met online with methamphetamine and sexually assaulted her.
Jeffrey Kyle Snyder, 50, was arrested and booked at the Santa Barbara County Main Jail on a felony charge of providing narcotics to a juvenile. He was also booked on an outstanding warrant for violation of probation related to a prior witness intimidation case, according to the Santa Barbara County Sheriff.
Sheriff’s detectives launched an investigation in May 2026, in which they learned Snyder met the teen online and eventually arranged to meet her for an in-person date…