The girlfriend of a longtime Villages restaurant server who was arrested in connection with an armed robbery at Belle Glade Country Club on Tuesday is back in jail for the second time this week.
Allison Jill Lauricella, 31, a floor manager at a local restaurant, was arrested Thursday after the owner reported three deposits missing. The receipts from July 5 through July 7 were supposed to have been deposited at Citizens First Bank at 395 Colony Blvd., but when it was discovered that that didn’t happen, the owner on Thursday called Sumter County sheriff’s deputies.
Lauricella had just gotten out of the Sumter County Detention Center late Wednesday afternoon after being arrested on possession of drug paraphernalia charges Tuesday. Her arrest followed that of her boyfriend, 33-year-old Brian Christopher Davis, who is accused of robbing Belle Glade manager Steve Wajda early Tuesday morning and then holing up in Lauricella’s parents’ nearby home at 373 Alteza Lane in the normally quiet neighborhood of LaBelle North.
Davis was taken into custody shortly after noon Tuesday after driving a vehicle through the home’s garage door and leading deputies on a high-speed chase that ended off Micro Racetrack Road in Lake County. He faces a litany of charges, the most serious being armed robbery, and is being held without bond.
Deputies arrested Lauricella after executing a search warrant at her parents’ Designer home and finding syringes and “multiple spoons, which were bent and burnt in a manner consistent with illegal injectable narcotic use” in her bedroom, sheriff’s officials said.
In Thursday’s arrest, Lauricella faces two counts of larceny/grand theft and one count of larceny/petit theft. She is being held at the Sumter County Detention Center on $4,500 bond.
Volusia County court records show that these latest arrests aren’t the first time Lauricella has dealt with the legal system. Records show that she missed a court date in May 2013 on a charge of issuing a bad check under $150. A warrant was issued for her arrest and she received notice that her driver’s license was being suspended.
In July 2013, Lauricella successfully completed a deferred prosecution agreement and made restitution to a Publix grocery store for $76. She also paid a $30 victim penalty and another $30 to cover a state fee, court records show.
Lauricella was back in court in June 2014 after being cited for driving with a suspended license nine months earlier. But court records indicate the prosecutor elected not to move forward with the case.