TAVARES, Fla. —
One of suspended Osceola County Sheriff Marcos Lopez’s co-defendants walked out of the Lake County jail Monday night after posting her $300,000 bail.
Sharon Fedrick is facing the same racketeering and conspiracy to commit racketeering charges as her co-defendants
While the charges are the same, Lopez remains in jail on $1 million bail.
While leaving jail, Fedrick claimed her innocence, saying “just pick up the owner. I’m not the owner” in reference to the illegal gambling sites she and her co-defendants are accused of running.
Prosecutors say she has a lengthy criminal history, including an active case out of Orange County involving fraud.
The only other co-defendant who has been arrested in the racketeering case, Carol Cote, posted her $100,000 bail last week.
Ying Zhang and Sheldon Wetherholt are also defendants in this case but have not yet been arrested.
Prosecutors say they all conspired in a yearslong illegal gambling operation in Osceola and Lake Counties.
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