Police in Sumter County, FL. announced the arrest of a 20-year-old Villages Charter School graduate after she was caught with a large quantity of drugs in her vehicle last Monday.
Monica Racy, 20, was arrested on multiple charges of drug possession with intent to distribute. She was ordered held on $24,000 bond at the Sumter County Detention Center. Attorney information wasn’t available.
According to the Sumter County Sheriff’s Department, Racy was pulled over by a deputy at approximately 6:30 p.m. April 19 on County Road 229 south of County Road 462. The deputy reported seeing Racy’s gray 2018 Volkswagen Jetta swerving into the path of his vehicle. She had also been paced driving 65 mph in a 45-mph zone on County Road 462.
Racy was allegedly “slow to respond” to the deputy and was seen “frantically” moving items around the vehicle, according to the arrest report.
“I observed her to place a backpack and a large Amazon envelope from the front passenger seat to the rear seat and attempt to place a scarf over the items,” the deputy wrote in the report.
Racy purportedly told the deputy that she was tired and was in a rush to get to her mother’s house. The deputy called a K-9 unit to the scene to search the vehicle for controlled substances.
Racy’s backpack was allegedly found to contain a bag of cocaine, an alprazolam pill, and a bag of cannabis. The Amazon envelope reportedly contained several bags of hallucinogenic mushrooms, methamphetamine, amphetamines, cannabis, and alprazolam. Police also found LSD and three packages of candy with labels indicating that they contained THC, the report said.
Racy allegedly confessed to the deputy that she had been “transporting the illicit narcotics for a friend to Sumter County from Tampa,” the report said.
“She advised illicit narcotics sales were down in the USF area due to the COVID-19 restrictions in Hillsborough County,” the deputy noted in the report.
Racy told the deputy she was to deliver the drugs and “take money back to her friend in Tampa,” the report states. She was placed under arrest and taken to Sumter County Detention Center, where she has since posted bond.
Records indicate that Racy has no prior criminal history. She is a clinical research assistant at the University of South Florida in Tampa, where she is pursuing a master’s degree in public health. She is responsible for “recruiting, educating, screening, and consenting patients with Type I and II Diabetes Mellitus throughout various clinical research projects,” according to the press.
Drug possession with intent to distribute is a serious offense punishable by up to 15 years in prison. Anyone accused of possession with intent to distribute should immediately consult an attorney who can review the case and come up with a winning defense strategy.
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