Moeckel, wrote in the sentencing memorandum that her client “was lured by the idea of quick easy cash and made a very poor choice, which he deeply regrets.” Nelson trafficked in golf carts, but his lawyer, Lorelle A. Nelson’s guilty plea in United States District Court in North Dakota in December, seven other charges he had faced - one count of transportation of a motor vehicle and six counts of sale or possession of stolen motor vehicles - were dismissed, according to the sentencing memorandum. Attorney’s Office for the District of North Dakota did not immediately return emails or phone calls on Tuesday.Īfter Mr. A federal judge ordered him on Tuesday to “forfeit” around $222,000 in cash.Ī spokesman for the U.S.
His two-year sentence includes credit for time he has already spent in prison. The authorities tied him to several interstate golf cart sales before he was arrested at a gym in Florida in March 2021, according to the affidavit. A sheriff’s office there discovered that the phone number associated with the alias was the same number that belonged to Mr. He had kept eight stolen golf carts at a self-storage facility in Illinois under his alias, according to the affidavit. Nelson ran the theft operation for about four years, from 2017 to 2021, selling golf carts he had taken from golf courses in states including Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin, according to the plea agreement and a June 2021 affidavit filed by an F.B.I. According to an agreement under which he pleaded guilty last December in federal court in North Dakota to one count of interstate transportation of stolen property, he would use “common ignition keys to drive the golf carts from the courses onto a trailer.” The agreement did not explain how he had obtained the keys. Nelson acted mostly at night, going to golf courses and stealing carts in pairs. A man who admitted to stealing or trying to steal 84 golf carts across several states in an effort to solve his financial troubles was sentenced on Tuesday to two years in prison, the authorities in North Dakota said.Īccording to a sentencing memorandum filed by his lawyer this month, the man, Nathan Rodney Nelson, 46, came up with the idea to steal and sell golf carts while he was struggling to maintain his home inspection business.įrom there, the authorities said, Mr.
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