The estranged wife of former Osceola County Sheriff Marcos Lopez rejected an plea deal to avoid prison time as her trial for her role in her husband’s illegal gambling scheme was delayed until at least December.

In Lake County court on Thursday, Assistant Statewide Prosecutor Panagiota Papakos noted that Robin Severance-Lopez, 50, had been offered a deal to resolve her charge of conspiracy to commit racketeering as well as a separate case of lying in order to have her ankle monitor removed by having her plead guilty to two counts of money laundering. Her charge of racketeering, originally among the accusations following her June 23 arrest, had been dropped in recent weeks.

In exchange for her plea, she would have been sentenced to 24 months probation and would have had to “give a tru

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