A former landscaping worker with apparent insider knowledge of golf maintenance operations was taken into custody following a series of high-dollar equipment thefts in The Villages.
Ryan John Kelly, 28, a Massachusetts native who lives at the Sundance Trails apartment complex in Wildwood, is facing multiple felony counts including grand theft and burglary of an unoccupied structure. Kelly is a former employee of Brightview, a large landscaping company in The Villages.
The primary incident took place on August 20 and 21 at the Belle Glade Championship Golf Course’s ASG Solutions golf maintenance facility…