A convicted felon who is charged with attacking a woman at a postal station in The Villages has retained a lawyer running for judge in Lake County.
Devan James Larue, 24, remains jailed without bond at the Sumter County Detention Center following his arrest June 8 by Sumter County sheriff’s deputies.
Larue is accused of throwing a large bottle of water at a woman at the postal station on Lynnhaven Lane. An arrest report said he had been acting “irrationally.”
Larue has retained criminal defense attorney Cary Rada, a candidate for Lake County judge. You can learn more about him HERE
On June 24, Rada appeared in Sumter County Court on Larue’s behalf and entered a plea of not guilty.
Larue had been released April 22 from the Florida Department of Corrections. Upon his release he took up residence in the Village of Ashland.
When he was only 15, Larue snuck past his sleeping mother, stole her keys and sped off in her Mitsubishi Eclipse. As a Pinellas County sheriff’s deputy was trying to pull Larue’s vehicle over, he hit the gas and smashed into a Jeep Wrangler carrying Danielle Edwards, 34, and her co-worker Bradley Womack, who was 20 at the time.
Edwards died. Womack was seriously injured.
Larue was charged with vehicular homicide and reckless driving with serious bodily injury.
