A man who admitted his craving for drugs led him to steal golf carts in The Villages is headed to state prison.
Jessie Lee Curtis, 37, of Summerfield, was sentenced last week in Sumter County Court to three years with the Florida Department of Corrections.
In an interview last year with a Sumter County sheriff’s detective, Curtis admitted to stealing a 2011 Yamaha golf cart from the parking garage of Freedom Pointe in The Villages. He said he later sold the stolen golf cart in Marion County. He indicated he had been involved in other golf cart thefts.
At one point, he had been implicated in the theft of a golf cart from the Southside Pool on the Historic Side of The Villages. Curtis said he stole the golf carts because of a drug abuse problem.Â
