Two separate arrests involving oxycodone pills were made in St. Lucie County Friday.

Matthew Joseph Elka, 20, of the 2000 block of Southeast Eatonville Street, is suspected of trafficking oxycodone, according to an arrest affidavit from the Port St. Lucie Police Department released Sunday.

The report states a confidential informant told police Elka was selling oxycodone. On Friday, an undercover officer allegedly bought 20 pills from Elka for $140 at a Cumberland Farms store near Lennard Road. Elka is in the St. Lucie County Jail on $75,000 bond. (more…)

VERO BEACH — Ray Adams took his wife Phyllis outside, behind her work place, and told her to hold him as tight as she could — just like he held her.

What he said next devastated her, there in the bright sunshine off Ocean Drive.

Their 19-year-old son Nolan died a few hours earlier on Jan. 25, 2005. He ingested two capsules of the potent drug methadone William McCartney III, 34, is accused of selling to him illegally for $50 the day before in Vero Beach. (more…)

St. Lucie County Sheriff’s investigators on Friday night arrested a pharmacy clerk on charges of trying to sell undercover deputies 2,000 Oxycodone pills for $2,000.

Fort Pierce resident Emily N. Humphrey, 21, faces charges of drug trafficking and possession with intent to sell.

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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. (more…)

Genelle L. Trefelner, admitted to pilfering pills.

A Fort Pierce woman was arrested after she admitted she had been pilfering pills from a Walgreens where she worked as a pharmacy tech, deputies say.

On Thursday St. Lucie County Sheriff’s deputies were called to a Walgreens in the 2500 block of Virginia Avenue, where a loss prevention officer said she had been interviewing 30-year-old Genelle L. Trefelner about the missing pills.

According to deputies, Trefelner stole more than 3,000 pills of 2210 hydrocodone, oxycodone, and aprazolam, also known as Xanax. (more…)

FORT PIERCE — A former Port St. Lucie doctor will stand trial for the third time in March on charges she ran a “pill mill” from her office that ended with six of her former patients overdosing on oxycodone and other potent painkillers.

An appeals court in May overturned Asuncion Luyao’s 2006 convictions for manslaughter, drug trafficking and racketeering, ruling jurors were tainted by irrelevant testimony about the doctor’s gambling habit.

Judge Larry Schack set the new trial date for March 23.

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