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Pasco Deputies: Man Went Skinny-Dipping, Stole Golf Cart

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By LISA A. DAVIS | The Tampa Tribune

Published: July 14, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - All Thomas Olenick Jr. can remember about the night of July 7 is taking four Xanax, an anti-anxiety drug, and then waking up on a comforter somewhere in the Stagecoach Village, according to a Pasco Sheriff's Office report.

Deputies, however, say they have pieced together through witnesses and surveillance video how Olenick spent at least part of that night – swimming naked.

The story goes like this, according to reports:

Just after 11 p.m., Olenick arrived at the Stagecoach Community Center at 3632 Mossy Oak Circle and broke in to the pool, plunging into its waters naked. While swimming, Olenick removed four or five submerged pool lights from the pool wall.

After skinny-dipping, a surveillance camera captured Olenick on camera clad in a gray shirt, shorts and a black and white baseball cap.

A female is also seen on the video arguing with the man. She then hands him a dark item and leaves.

Minutes later, Olenick hot-wired a golf cart parked outside the community center but wasn't able to get it through a locked gate, so he began ramming the cart into the gate before cutting several wires to open it. Before he left, though, he picked up a pink towel and stone ashtray from the community's "lost and found" bin and put those on the golf cart.

He then returned to the pool area and picked up a table and four chairs and drove them to his home at 3422 Broken Bow Drive.

"I got a new back porch table and chairs," Olenick reportedly announced to a teenager who lives at the home.

When the teen asked Olenick where he got the patio set, he replied, "Stagecoach pool."

"You're crazy," the 15-year-old told him and walked off.

Olenick started throwing around the chairs, and his girlfriend called deputies. Olenick left his home and crashed the golf cart into the woods near his home.

Deputies couldn't find him then. But on Sunday he turned himself in at the jail to face charges of burglary of business, grand theft of a vehicle and criminal mishchief. He is being held at the Land O' Lakes Jail with bail set at $30,000.

Olenick told deputies he has no "recollection" of the incident. He just remembers waking up on the comforter on the opposite side of the Stagecoach subdivision.

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