Prosecutor moves ahead with case against VHS grad busted with cache of drugs

The prosecutor’s office is moving ahead with a criminal case involving a Villages High School graduate busted with a large cache of drugs.

Information was filed last week in Sumter County Court in the case against 20-year-old Monica Racy, a student at the University of South Florida in Tampa.

Racy had reportedly been on the way to her mother’s house April 19 when her speeding vehicle was pulled over on County Road 462. The Sumter County sheriff’s deputy who searched her vehicle found cocaine, 60 bags of hallucinogenic mushrooms, two bags of marijuana, methamphetamine and pills including Alprazolam and Amphetamine. There were also LSD and three packages of a Nerds THC candy.

The former president of The Villages High School Debate Club confided in 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 wrote in the report.

The Michigan-born former assistant at Properties of The Villages was arrested on a dozen charges and released on $24,000 bond.

Court records indicate one of the charges has been dropped. A charge of fraud has been been abandoned court records show. Racy had been in possession of the Florida driver’s license of a fellow Charter School alum. That Charter School graduate, a senior at Florida State University, had not given Racy permission to possess her driver’s license, the report said.

“(Racy) claimed she has been holding onto it for approximately two years and was planning on giving it back eventually. She denied using it to purchase alcohol,” the report said.