Apparently, a group of female workers with the nickname “The Squad” at the Florida state attorney’s office partied too hard at a bachelorette party. The group of women in their 20s was in New Orleans to celebrate the upcoming wedding of Shannon Solo, 27, in December. But the party got out of hand when one of the women took out a rubber duck.
Packed inside the duck was a stash of cocaine and soon the group was doing lines of coke and Adderall. In addition to the cocaine, someone made a bong from a Gatorade bottle and the women were smoking marijuana. Rather than keep their party a secret between girls, Solo told her boyfriend about her New Orleans bachelorette party. Her fiancé is an Orange County Deputy in the narcotics division and did not find her story amusing. He snitched on his girlfriend and told his superiors about the party and the state attorney’s workers in attendance. An investigation was launched and now the six women are out of a job.
Orange-Osceola State Attorney Aramis Ayala announced those dismissals last month but the details of their firing are now being made public. Ayala stated that all six women either used drugs or saw co-workers use them and condoned it. She stated to media, “Based on the power and authority employees of this office possess, I hold each of us to a higher standard. They were people who should not be working for the State Attorney’s Office.”
The names of the employees fired are Shannon Solo, attorney Alicia Virginio, Casey Perkins, victim advocates Rachel Shaw and Barbara “Kathleen” Browne and attorney Danielle Wall. No criminal charges were filed against the women because of a lack of physical evidence. Solo is no longer engaged and is now an unemployed single woman who ruined her career.
