Monique Haughton Worrell is a prosecutor and Democratic politician who has served as the state attorney for the Ninth Judicial Circuit Court of Florida since January 2021.
On August 9, 2023 Florida Governor Ron DeSantis suspended Worrell from her office and appointed circuit judge Andrew Bain as acting state attorney for the remaining duration of her term.
[10] On August 9, 2023, Florida governor Ron DeSantis suspended her and appointed an acting state attorney to operate the office.
[13] A detailed review into the allegations against her by the Orlando Sentinel found that Osceola County sheriff's deputies errors had undermined the prosecution.
Osceola County Sheriff Marcos López claimed Worrell hadn’t prosecuted a single one of the 74 drug trafficking arrests his office made in 2022.
It concluded that Worrell successfully prosecuted some drug trafficking cases while judges and state crime labs dismissed the others.