Photo by LCSO Philip Timmerman

Photo by LCSO Jeremiah Fuoss

Two adults and three juveniles believed to be responsible for the recent vandalism committed at two golf courses have been identified.

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This according to a press release from the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office.

Jeremiah Ray Fuoss, 20, Philip Timmerman, 19, one juvenile male and two juvenile females have been fingered by the LCSO as the culprits. Fuoss and one of the juvenile females have been cited for felony criminal mischief, with a citation pending for the other female.

The press release said that arrest warrants will be requested for the juvenile male and Timmerman. The two are currently guests of the Frontier County Sheriff’s Office, accused of burglarizing the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture in Curtis.

LCSO deputies began unraveling the crime over the weekend, culminating with suspect interviews on Tuesday.

The crime

The vandals went for a joyride in four stolen golf carts that had been chained up outside the clubhouse. After careening around the course, damaging greens, sand traps, rakes, and a bench, they deposited the carts in Lake Maloney.

Ron Block, general manager and head pro of the course, said that $24,000 in damage had been done to the carts. Several that were not stolen had their ignitions damaged.

He also said that he estimated the damage done to the grounds to be around $6600. Include the manpower to clean the mess up, and the total damage runs far in excess of $30,000.

Block stated that some of the damage done to the course will likely remain until next spring. It’s late in the golf season, and cooler temperatures will discourage aggressive grass re-growth.

Block said that he had been involved with golf courses for forty years, and that incidents like this spring up every year or every-other year. Part of the problem, Block said, is that the perpetrators of such crimes, if caught, are rarely penalized severely.

“They just give them a slap on the wrist, and that’s that,” he said. “I’d like to an example made out of somebody.”