An anonymous tip led police to a man who allegedly stole and then began stripping a golf cart taken from Holiday Inn Express in The Villages.
A Lady Lake Police Department detective paid a visit to the Leisure Meadows mobile home park on Marion County Road where he found 34-year-old Alan Dean Simmons Jr. working on a stripped golf cart in the carport.
Simmons told the detective that the gray Yamaha golf cart had been delivered to him Saturday night by a man called “Red.”
When asked where the golf cart key was, Simmons told the detective the golf cart had no key and was wired to a switch. The golf cart’s vehicle identification number matched that of a golf cart reportedly stolen from the Holiday Inn Express on Avenida Central in The Villages.
Simmons was taken into custody Tuesday afternoon and booked at the Lake County Jail on a charge of possession of stolen property.
A number of golf carts have been stolen recently in the Spanish Springs area. You can read more about that HERE
