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Teenagers charged with golf cart theft in Immokalee

By Daily News staff

Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Four teenagers were arrested Sunday when a Collier County sheriff’s deputy in Immokalee, responding to a report of a stolen golf cart, found them in a road-side ditch trying to dislodge the cart from the mud.

Around 3 p.m., Liliana Flores, a manager of a local home building company, left a leased golf cart in front of a model home in the Arrowhead Reserve at Lake Trafford community, an arrest report said. Flores told authorities that she left the key in the cart when she entered the home.

When Flores left the home around 5:15 p.m. the golf cart was missing, authorities said. Flores then reported the missing golf cart to authorities.

About 10 minutes later a deputy responding to the call was driving near the 3500 block of Lake Trafford Road and saw the teens in a road-side ditch trying to get the cart out of the mud, the Sheriff’s Office reported. When the deputy approached the four teens, three attempted to walk away.

The deputy ordered the teens back to the cart. When asked if it was their cart, the teens said “no,” authorities said.

The teens were identified as Jose Concepcion, 15, and David Perez, 14, both of 1106 Christian Terrace, Immokalee, and Mario Medrano and Marco Medrano, both 15 and of Lubbock, Texas.

When Flores arrived at the ditch she identified the golf cart as the one that was stolen. The teens were each charged with one count of felony grand theft.