Sometimes it just doesn’t pay to try and sell your mom’s prescription pills.

That’s what put 20-year old Saugus resident Michael Sebesta behind bars Sunday night, after he approached two off-duty sheriff’s deputies in the Kmart parking lot and offered a good price for medication prescribed to his mother.

Needless to say, the offer, made shortly before 10 p.m., was negotiated with the deputies confiscating the drugs in exchange for a set of handcuffs, making Sebesta a guest of the county.

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He was booked at the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s station, where he is being held in lieu of $250 bail.