OVIEDO, Fla. - A local construction worker says he spent three months in jail after bits of drywall he had in his car tested positive for cocaine during an Oviedo traffic stop.

An officer from the Oviedo Police Department pulled over Karlos Cashe, 57, at 9:45 p.m. on March 22 for driving without headlights on, according to an arrest report.
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Body camera video of the incident, available above, shows Cashe telling the officer that he didn't realize the lights weren't on and apologizing for the misunderstanding.

The officer then runs Cashe's information and realizes he's on probation and has a curfew. The officer's laptop lists Cashe's curfew as 8 p.m. Cashe repeatedly tells the officer that information is incorrect, his curfew is actually 10 p.m. and he has a document in his wallet that proves it.

"I've got a drug offender's probation for 10 o'clock," Cashe tells the officer.

The arrest report notes that the information the officer retrieved on his laptop was incorrect due to a clerical error, and Cashe's curfew was 10 p.m., not 8 p.m.

A drug-sniffing K-9 was brought to the scene and alerted on Cashe's vehicle, giving the officers probable cause to perform a search.

[RAW VIDEO: Karlos Cashe arrested during Oviedo traffic stop]

A small piece of suspected marijuana and a white substance that appeared to be crack-cocaine were found in the car, police said.

"It looks like he had a gram and he crushed it up when he saw you," one officer says to another in the video.

The substance, which Cashe told the court was drywall, tested positive for cocaine during a field test and Cashe was arrested on drug charges.

Oviedo police told News 6 that prosecutors decided to only send the suspected cocaine for Florida Department of Law Enforcement lab testing. When the results came back on May 16, they showed that substance was negative for any kind of drugs.

It took another month until Cashe was released from jail on June 19. He told News 6 he blames racial profiling for the incident and that he's looking into a way to be compensated for the three months of work he missed while he was being held in jail.

"I was profiled. It wasn't the first time, it just was just the worst of those times," Cashe said.

The Oviedo Police Department said it plans to reevaluate its field testing procedures. She said the tests they currently use are 99 percent accurate.