JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Police said a Jacksonville restaurant owner who was arrested Monday was peddling more than hot wings.

Kullen Sourdiff is accused of selling painkillers out of his own restaurant and charged with three first-degree felony counts of trafficking illegal drugs.

Police said Sourdiff, who owns several of the Fast Boys Wings locations in town, including the one on Beach Boulevard where the illegal deal went down, attempted to sell the powerful prescription drugs to an undercover agent.

According to police documents, the investigation started in December. Authorities used a confidential informant working for the Drug Enforcement Administration to make their first buy from Sourdiff.

With the feds watching Sourdiff's every move, investigators had the same confidential informant go back to the restaurant to pay Sourdiff for the first 39 hydrocodone pills he bought from him just days before.

Authorities said they caught the owner selling the pills to the same informant on two more occasions before they arrested him.

The general manager of the restaurant said he had no knowledge of the arrest until Channel 4 told him, and he didn't want to speak about it on camera.

As for those who go to the restaurant regularly, some said they were glad law enforcement pulled a fast one on his operation.

"I think it's a good thing that people who sell drugs actually do get caught," said Sarah, who eats at the restaurant regularly with her family. "They're hurting a lot of lives with it, so now they just screwed up their own."