LAKE COUNTY, Fla. – A Lake County detention deputy died Thursday after contracting COVID-10, sheriff’s officials said.“It is with a heavy heart that the Sheriff’s Office is dealing with the loss of an employee.
Master Detention Deputy Richard “Rick” Barry, a 24-year veteran of the agency, passed away at AdventHealth Waterman,” the Lake County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.Barry, 58, had been assigned to the jail as a detention deputy, where he regularly worked in the extradition unit, officials said.He was moved to supervise inmates within the jail when inmate transports were halted earlier this year due to the pandemic, according to sheriff’s officials.Barry tested positive for COVID-19 on June 16 and had since been in isolation.