GREEN COVE SPRINGS, Fla. — Tropical Storm Colin wasn't the only entity leaving a path of damage across our area Monday night.
Vandals left thousands of dollars in damage at a Green Cove Springs country club, which included driving a golf cart into a pond.
The vandals tore up the country club from the putting green to the tennis courts at the Magnolia Point Golf and Country Club.
The tennis courts had to be closed, as workers are still picking up broken beer bottles the vandals threw here.
Cell phone pictures show a new golf cart surrounded by cops and sitting at the bottom of the pond next to the 15th green at the Magnolia Point golf course.
“It was up to here in water, so it was not a pretty sight. It totaled the cart,” said Trevor Rothfels, who owns the golf course and tennis club. “We have two or three gators that frequent the pond.”
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Rothfels gave Action News Jax permission to take a golf cart around his course to retrace the vandals’ crime spree after they stole a golf cart out of the garage.
“They lifted this door up and took a cart right on to the golf course,” Rothfels said. “Drove it over this hill and into the pond.”
Rothfels said they started at the tennis courts and spread.
“They used the bench and used the garbage cans, they were lobbing beer bottles off the top,” Rothfels said.
“The lattice work was pulled off and thrown everywhere,” Rothfels said. “They had so many beer bottles they closed the courts.”
All of this happened during Tropical Storm Colin Monday night. Rothfels said the vandals left about $10,000 in damage.
There is a reward for anyone who has information leading to the arrest and conviction of the vandals. There is no surveillance video available that could help identify the vandals, Rothfels said.
Officials believe neighborhood teens may be behind the damage.
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