‘I will be your sheriff’: Report details how former Osceola top cop began, expanded gambling empire

Two years before he became Osceola County sheriff, Marcos Lopez joined the gambling business, a venture that started when he introduced a veteran of illegal casinos to a Chinese-born realtor with money to invest, according to a newly released affidavit. That deal netted him thousands of dollars, but in September 2019, he had to reassure the woman from China there was no danger of being caught, ...