While no court documents back up published reports that Marcos Lopez and Robin Severance-Lopez, Osceola’s former Sheriff and his former wife, have October trial dates set, the two do have court hearings scheduled for next week regarding their racketeering charges stemming from their June arrests by Lake County law enforcement.
On Monday, Judge Brian Welke held a private plea negotiation conference with the legal teams of five co-conspirators named as principals in an illegal gambling operation that spanned Lake and Osceola counties — the Lopezes, Sheldon Whetherholt, Sharon Federick and Carol Cote.
Their court dockets have yet to be updated with anything that came out of that meeting…