PORT ST. LUCIE — Santa likely wouldn’t approve of entering a drug deal because of a lack of Christmas cash.

But that, according to a recently released arrest affidavit, appears to be what 30-year-old Charles A. Latos did Tuesday night at a plaza at California and Savona boulevards.

Latos, of the 1000 block of Southwest John Maccormick Terrace, Port St. Lucie, reportedly got into an undercover St. Lucie County sheriff’s investigator’s vehicle where they exchanged 40 oxycodone pills for $480. After Latos counted the cash and confirmed to the investigator that all the pills were there he was arrested.

“Charles told me he was there to conduct a drug transaction,” the affidavit states. “Charles told me he needed money for Christmas. Charles told me he does this every once in a while.”

Investigators also turned up ammunition in Latos’s white Pontiac Sunfire. Latos reportedly said the rounds belonged to a friend who sold a gun earlier in the week. He said he planned to get rid of the ammo but forgot.

Latos faces felony charges including sale and delivery of oxycodone, trafficking in oxycodone and possession of ammunition by a convicted felon.

By Will Greenlee, TCPalm.com

Tags: Charles A. Latos, christmas, drugs, holiday, oxycodone

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