Teen joyride ends in $100k worth of
damage at Marine Park Golf Course
BY JESSICA PARKS
A quintet of teenage ruffi ans allegedly
wreaked havoc at Marine Park
Golf Course on May 24 — vandalizing
seven golf carts and causing at least
$100,000 worth of damage, according
to an employee.
“The cost is probably going to be
signifi cant,” Michael Giordano, the
golf course’s general manager, told
Brooklyn Paper. “It’ll probably be at
least six fi gures by the time we fi nish.”
Police responded to a 9 pm emergency
call claiming young people
were riding golf carts along the neighborhood’s
residential roads — raising
suspicion from neighbors, according
to Giordano.
“That is where some of our customers
live, and they saw the carts there
after dark,” Giordano said. “That was
not a normal sight so they called 911.”
Upon arrival, offi cers encountered
a group of fi ve teenagers who then disembarked
the motorized golf caddies
and led police on a foot chase to the
Kings Plaza parking garage, where authorities
eventually apprehended one
16-year-old boy.
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New York’s Finest slapped the juvenile
with charges of burglary, grand
larceny, criminal mischief, obstruction
of governmental administration,
reckless endangerment, trespassing
and criminal trespassing.
Giordano said the vandals snuck
onto the Flatbush Avenue property
some time Sunday evening and
wrecked the caddies, while also damaging
maintenance equipment. The total
price of damage to the course has
yet to be determined.
The destruction strikes the golf
course at an especially tough time as
the statewide closure of all nonessential
businesses in March due to the ongoing
pandemic has resulted in a total
loss of income for the fairway over the
last two months.
“Without any revenue, it’s very
diffi cult to absorb further expenses,”
Giordano told Brooklyn Paper.
Giordano suspects operating a
higher volume of golf carts will be crucial
to the course reopening in compliance
with social distancing guidelines,
leaving owners with little choice
but to foot the bill to repair or replace
the damaged fl eet.
“When we do, carts are going to
be critical and unfortunately we lose
the carts we lose more revenue,” Giordano
said. “It is never a good time for
this but it is particularly problematic
now.”
Additional reporting by Arthur de
Gaeta
A group of teens allegedly trashed a fl eet of caddies at Marine Park Golf Course over Memorial
Day Weekend. Photo by Arthur de Gaeta
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