14-year-old juvenile, already a suspect in nine golf cart

thefts earlier this month, was caught in the act of

stealing another golf cart Monday evening, police said.

Maj. Mike

DuPree of the Peachtree City Police Department said Cpl.

Chris Brown spotted the youth on the cart in the Timber

Walk area after 9 p.m. The youth originally tried to

drive away on the golf cart before abandoning it and

trying to get away on foot, DuPree said.

Officers

later spotted the 14-year-old, who lives in Peachtree

City, and made the arrest without a confrontation, DuPree

added.

Earlier

this month, police filed a juvenile complaint against the

youth after he left one of the nine stolen carts at the

scene of an automobile that was entered illegally, DuPree

said.

Officers

were on the lookout for the suspect Monday night before

he was spotted on the stolen cart, DuPree added.

Because of

the confidentiality involving juvenile cases, officials

could not release information as to whether the youth has

been penalized, warned or cleared by the juvenile court

system for the original series of golf cart thefts.