Pro Golfer Steve Thomas Arrested in Florida Underage Sex Sting
Professional golfer Steve Thomas was one of 40 men arrested for suspected solicitation of minors for sex in an undercover sting in Florida called “Operation Red Cheeks.” The 55-year-old has appeared in 44 PGA Tour events.
His arrest affidavit states Thomas thought he was chatting with a woman about sex with her 13-year-old daughter. He agreed to meet the teen for sex, deputies say, and sent photos of himself golfing.
Investigators searched Thomas’ sport utility vehicle after his arrest, the affidavit states, finding three condoms, two packages of chocolate pudding and a bottle of honey. Deputies say he confessed.
Disturbingly, the sting also caught a Gainesville swim coach and an eighth-grade math teacher. So, basically, keep your child off the Internet and away from extracurricular activities. You might want to consider home-schooling.
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January 18th, 2012 at 1:21 PM
Andrey Arshavin, known child molester.
Was the honey in a plastic bear bottle?
January 18th, 2012 at 1:23 PM
The John Daly Starter Kit.
/minus the case of Keystone
January 18th, 2012 at 1:25 PM
IT’S IN THE HOLE!!!!!!!!
January 18th, 2012 at 1:25 PM
spence, quick breakdown of thomas please
his golfing, to be clear
January 18th, 2012 at 1:26 PM
breesus, leave room for smokes in daly’s care package
January 18th, 2012 at 1:26 PM
that turn you on baby? oooo yea…nothin gets the teenaged panties wet quite like some golf shots.
January 18th, 2012 at 1:27 PM
The “new” epidemic…fucking brutal. Steve Thomas, just another chiseled flogger, right Spencey?
January 18th, 2012 at 1:27 PM
So, basically, keep your child off the Internet
support sopa!
January 18th, 2012 at 1:27 PM
never heard of the guy…article says he only had 3 top-10′s, so he must’ve been a fringe player.
January 18th, 2012 at 1:28 PM
I am sure he just used the standard “I just wanted to make sure the kid was ok” line they always have.
/To catch a predator
January 18th, 2012 at 1:28 PM
Is this an Onion article?
January 18th, 2012 at 1:29 PM
you got it!
January 18th, 2012 at 1:31 PM
Golf.
/?
January 18th, 2012 at 1:31 PM
So, basically, keep your child off the Internet and away from extracurricular activities.
And, apparently, the aisle where Snack Packs are located.
January 18th, 2012 at 1:32 PM
Pretty sure Gainesville was a shithole for perverts waaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy before the Internet.
/not that Baton Rouge is much better
January 18th, 2012 at 1:32 PM
Thomas thought he was chatting with a woman about sex with her 13-year-old daughter.
Sweet fake parenting
January 18th, 2012 at 1:32 PM
you’d think the people that pretend to be the underage girls/boys for these stings would be on the same level as working a suicide hotline. even if you do good work, it’s gotta be a terrible job to sit through.
January 18th, 2012 at 1:33 PM
Look at the guys mustache for christ’s sake, if that doesn’t scream creep I dont know what does.
January 18th, 2012 at 1:33 PM
Is this a reference to Santa Claus or S&M?
Or both?
January 18th, 2012 at 1:34 PM
Good for him.
January 18th, 2012 at 1:34 PM
you’d think the people that pretend to be the underage girls/boys for these stings would be on the same level as working a suicide hotline. even if you do good work, it’s gotta be a terrible job to sit through.
I’ve always thought that being a 911 dispatcher would be difficult. You never know when you answer the phone if someone is going to be screaming on the other end about someone trying to kill them.
January 18th, 2012 at 1:35 PM
yeah seriously, what Mom in the real world is gonna pimp her 13 year old out to some fat, old, nobody golfer?
January 18th, 2012 at 1:35 PM
He came to life … good for him!
January 18th, 2012 at 1:37 PM
the one time i called 911, it took 4 rings for someone to pick up.
January 18th, 2012 at 1:37 PM
if someone is going to be screaming on the other end about someone trying to kill them.
or their dealer sold them ajax
or their cheeseburger was cold
January 18th, 2012 at 1:37 PM
I thought it screamed “Mike Holmgren Coaching Tree”
January 18th, 2012 at 1:37 PM
There probably is some sort of satisfaction working for a suicide hotline and especially catching creeps like Steve Thomas. Working a 911 line could be hilarious (people complaing about McNuggets and stuff like that) to downright frightening. I would not want any of those jobs.
January 18th, 2012 at 1:37 PM
He came to life … good for him!
Always been a fan of this one.
January 18th, 2012 at 1:38 PM
Story time with wilhelm!
January 18th, 2012 at 1:38 PM
it took 4 rings for someone to pick up.
did they answer, ‘Yeah?’
January 18th, 2012 at 1:38 PM
Retired beekeeper Dell Rio Highsmith, 70. Deputies said Highsmith, a resident of Fargo, Ga., arrived at the sting with white wine, a heart-shaped box of chocolates and Viagra pills.
If I’m the cops, I amuse myself and tell him it’s a turn-on if he shows up wearing the beekeeper gear.
January 18th, 2012 at 1:38 PM
Weird. His father Dave has been pimping out his own red cheeked 13 year old for years.
January 18th, 2012 at 1:39 PM
This would be hilarious if it weren’t so disgusting.
January 18th, 2012 at 1:39 PM
wait that stache screams creep? i think it screams “distinguished gentlemanry.”
January 18th, 2012 at 1:39 PM
Deputies said Highsmith, a resident of Fargo, Ga., arrived at the sting with white wine
There’s no way that wasn’t white zinfandel.
January 18th, 2012 at 1:40 PM
honestly, i still think it’s hilarious.
January 18th, 2012 at 1:40 PM
Michael Buble brand, no doubt.
January 18th, 2012 at 1:41 PM
C’mon man. Bartles and Jaymes is all you need.
January 18th, 2012 at 1:41 PM
honestly, i still think it’s hilarious.
http://media.myfoxorlando.com/photogalleries/011712-40-arrested-in-sting/1/lg/Highsmith_Dell_Rio.htm
January 18th, 2012 at 1:42 PM
where’s Some Random Old Retired Dude today?
January 18th, 2012 at 1:43 PM
oh cheer up, you negative nancy…you know what they say. two in the clink, one in the stink.
January 18th, 2012 at 1:43 PM
The only retired beekeepers were obviously good beekeepers. Let’s not confuse the man’s recent actions with his distinguished career…keeping bees.
January 18th, 2012 at 1:44 PM
Come on. This was probably like the second time this guy was getting laid. In his life.
January 18th, 2012 at 1:45 PM
nothing too crazy, a bunch of my friends and i were hanging out at a friends house and we were all getting ready to leave. it was late, maybe 1am. small town, USA.
a friend parked her brand new ford escape on the road across the street, we were all on the front porch, and down the road comes this pickup, doing at least 40 and smashes right into my friends new car. She freaks, i run in to call 911, it rings twice and I’m thinking i called the wrong number. 4 times it rings, the dispatcher picks up. 10 minutes later the cop shows up.
keep in mind, this town is 1 square mile. that’s it. 10 minutes for the cop to show up at an accident scene.
anyway, while I’m on the phone the driver hops out, he’s about 16, just got his license and he reaches into the truck grab a mostly empty 30 pack of beer. He’s shouting “my fault, my fault! I did it! It was me!” while he has the beer in his hands, nonchalantly walking around the truck and onto the neighbors property to dump the beer and hide it. in plain view of about 7 people.
then the cop showed up, arrested him, etc. night over.
i was originally going to park where my friend parked her SUV, and then i was wishing I had b/c i wanted to get rid of my buick sedan for a new car.
January 18th, 2012 at 1:45 PM
Going through that slideshow tells me one thing — these types of dudes come from all demographics
January 18th, 2012 at 1:45 PM
Beekeeper Wishes He Understood Women Like He Understands Bees
January 18th, 2012 at 1:46 PM
thomas had honey, a beekeeper was arrested….Winnie the Pooh theme?
January 18th, 2012 at 1:46 PM
i believe it was hemingway who said “there is not keeping like the keeping of a bee and those who have kept bees and liked it never care for anything else…except diddling kids.”
January 18th, 2012 at 1:46 PM
You can’t trade a snack pack for a banana either apparently.
January 18th, 2012 at 1:46 PM
keep in mind, this town is 1 square mile. that’s it. 10 minutes for the cop to show up at an accident scene.
The town probably only has two cops and one of them has to have the night off.
January 18th, 2012 at 1:47 PM
wilhelm, did the kid get busted for the beer?
January 18th, 2012 at 1:48 PM
I really love the thought process and problem solving of drunk people.
January 18th, 2012 at 1:49 PM
Champ.
January 18th, 2012 at 1:49 PM
What became of this beer you speak of?
January 18th, 2012 at 1:50 PM
I hope you guys drank his leftover beer, wilhelm.
January 18th, 2012 at 1:50 PM
I really love the thought process and problem solving of drunk people.
The sincerest people in the world are children and drunks.
January 18th, 2012 at 1:51 PM
The drunker I am the greater the chances of winning bar trivia*…can’t explain it
*Fuck off, Hernia
January 18th, 2012 at 1:51 PM
http://media.myfoxorlando.com/photogalleries/011712-40-arrested-in-sting/1/lg/Mathews_Roger_Dale.htm
Bill Parcells is not aging gracefully
January 18th, 2012 at 1:51 PM
What kind of beer was it?
January 18th, 2012 at 1:52 PM
My team is on a roll right now.. won 3 of the last 4 weeks. Did you know a QB with 0.0 passer rating is a “Blutarsky”??
January 18th, 2012 at 1:52 PM
wc fields said, any man who loves whiskey and hates children can’t be all bad
color me half bad
January 18th, 2012 at 1:52 PM
looks like the sniper marshal from justified with meth age.
January 18th, 2012 at 1:52 PM
I once called 911 because I was driving in the middle of Ohio (on 70 in farm land) and saw an abandoned car on fire in the slow lane at night. It was very bizarre.
January 18th, 2012 at 1:53 PM
I dunno if I’d call a guy who only played in the Greater Hartford Open a handful of times a “pro golfer.”
I don’t like TBL gouging us golfers with these lewd articles.
January 18th, 2012 at 1:53 PM
cop took the evidence.
he most certainly did. only thing i know what happened to him after the fact was he got kicked off all athletics in the school.
January 18th, 2012 at 1:53 PM
http://media.myfoxorlando.com/photogalleries/011712-40-arrested-in-sting/1/lg/Mathews_Roger_Dale.htm
Bill Parcells is not aging gracefully
That guy’s ratio of hair to head is quite interesting.
January 18th, 2012 at 1:53 PM
TBL needs to take his fucking hat off in the fucking clubhouse.
January 18th, 2012 at 1:55 PM
grizz we’ve called the police twice, but i don’t think 911. once i saw a guy laying on his back on a median in a very busy area and once me and the wife reported a huge guy screaming at a woman after he got out of his car
we were too far away or of course i’d have set him straight
January 18th, 2012 at 1:55 PM
Supertroopers
January 18th, 2012 at 1:55 PM
It’s magic when someone recounts a decision you made (or a conversation that you had) back to you when you were completely shitfaced.
January 18th, 2012 at 1:55 PM
Natty Ice.
January 18th, 2012 at 1:55 PM
/looks awkwardly in the direction of SouvenirCity
January 18th, 2012 at 1:56 PM
was he got kicked off all athletics in the school.
fucking lucky he wasn’t hurt
January 18th, 2012 at 1:56 PM
Makes sense but I’m not sure I’d have come up with it…claimed victory last week, hoping our repeat bid tonight goes better than the Packers’ did
January 18th, 2012 at 1:56 PM
Police found a severed head in a bag near the Hollywood sign last night.
We just passed the anniversary of the Black Dahlia murder…perhaps someone is getting a little creative in remembrance?
January 18th, 2012 at 1:56 PM
You sure they didn’t mean an “Orlovsky?”
January 18th, 2012 at 1:57 PM
Fucking court reporters and their cunty verbatim powers.
January 18th, 2012 at 1:58 PM
It’s magic when someone recounts a decision you made (or a conversation that you had) back to you when you were completely shitfaced.
if you mean what you did during a blackout, absolutely. it still boggles my mind that you are able to function at all while so inebriated that you won’t remember
January 18th, 2012 at 1:58 PM
once i saw a guy laying on his back on a median in a very busy area
Were they filming “The Program” near where you live?
January 18th, 2012 at 1:58 PM
Somewhere, there’s a duffel bag with the other 7 heads in it.
January 18th, 2012 at 1:58 PM
Tony and Chrissy didn’t bury that thing deep enough. I knew it.
January 18th, 2012 at 1:58 PM
It’s magic when someone recounts a decision you made (or a conversation that you had) back to you when you were completely shitfaced.
Is ‘magic’ the right word for that?
January 18th, 2012 at 1:58 PM
yeah, probably lucky for the limp drunk accident phenomenon.
he was driving an early 90′s f150 or 250. all steel meets plastic small SUV. not much damage to his car, really messed up my friends car even before she made the first payment.
January 18th, 2012 at 1:58 PM
I called 911 after i saw a guy sledding down a large hill veer off course, hit a jump, land uncontrolably, and hit a tree. It was one of the amazing yet horrific things I’ve ever seen. He was conscious when the paramedics arrived, don’t know what happened to him. I thought for sure he at least broke his back.
January 18th, 2012 at 2:00 PM
spencer, a word of warning:
Never order anything from Golfsmith
January 18th, 2012 at 2:01 PM
Never called 911. Pretty happy that I’ve never had to. Had it called for things that have happened to me, but never been the one to actually call.
Hockey puck to the face was a funny one…
Hockey Mom: “We think he broke his nose. He’s bleeding all over the place. May have lost some teeth.”
SC’s Dad: “Put the goddamn phone down. We’re not paying for an ambulance when the hospital is less than a mile from here.”
January 18th, 2012 at 2:01 PM
My friends once proactively called 911 on me because I got kicked out of the bar and they thought I was in jail
January 18th, 2012 at 2:01 PM
The only time I called 911 was when I was hit by a drunk driver after getting the green light. The weird thing was that he hit the BACK of my car going about 50 and I was the SECOND car to come out of the green light. I later got the police report, and apparently I was the second of 5 cars he hit over the span of a mile and a half.
January 18th, 2012 at 2:02 PM
I think horrible would be a better word to use.
January 18th, 2012 at 2:02 PM
I later got the police report, and apparently I was the second of 5 cars he hit over the span of a mile and a half.
That is love for the game right there
January 18th, 2012 at 2:03 PM
used to work in a grocery store fish department, right next to meat department. the cleanup guy was a wacky vietnam vet. one day he flipped out, having a flashback, screaming. needed four of us to subdue him. then he went limp. paramedics took him away.
then when he was released, he had his job back! fucking sharp-ass knives and saws everywhere, and this guy gets his job back.
anyway, pretty sure someone called 911 for that one
January 18th, 2012 at 2:03 PM
Determination, that one has.
January 18th, 2012 at 2:04 PM
Heartbreaking to see Lynn Dickey on the list of guys to attempt 20+ passes in a game and still put up a Blutarsky
January 18th, 2012 at 2:04 PM
SC’s Dad: “Put the goddamn phone down. We’re not paying for an ambulance when the hospital is less than a mile from here.”
pretty sure i’m of this generation
January 18th, 2012 at 2:05 PM
Never called 911.
You will after you have kids.
January 18th, 2012 at 2:06 PM
You will after you have kids.
so far so good
January 18th, 2012 at 2:06 PM
I think horrible would be a better word to use.
That’s closer to what I’d call it I think.
January 18th, 2012 at 2:09 PM
Go big or go home
January 18th, 2012 at 2:12 PM
I’ve had some issues with them. Now I’m stuck with shoes that are a half size too big. Turns out, that shit matters.
January 18th, 2012 at 2:21 PM
Nothing a wad of tissue paper in the toe won’t fix
January 18th, 2012 at 2:22 PM
what happened UM?
January 18th, 2012 at 2:25 PM
We had to call 911 once when the neighbor kid broke his leg in our front yard. Turns out he had brittle bone disease so we couldn’t move him. It was totally gross because we had to beg him to be absolutely still. You could see the bone about to break the skin.
January 18th, 2012 at 2:31 PM
Was the honey in a plastic bear bottle?
Brad Pitt uses the honey bear for a bong in True Romance
Working a 911 line could be hilarious
Highly stressful, most people quit in a few years with some trauma, suicides, etc.
January 18th, 2012 at 2:31 PM
Man, missed a golf post and 911 stories? Damn.
Hell, I called 911 two weeks ago. Some suspicious guy in an alley behind my house trying to walk briskly away from me as soon as I saw him, looking over his shoulder all weird. Boom, 911.
January 18th, 2012 at 2:32 PM
Still waiting on a polo I ordered 3 weeks before Xmas. Each time I contact their service dept I’m told “it’s shipping tomorrow and you will have it Friday.”
They’ve told me that 4 times now.
January 18th, 2012 at 2:33 PM
I called 911 after
I saw a child die. Terrible.
Actually, learn your local police non-emergency #. Call and say “Didnt want to bother 911 but I saw…” Normally get a good response.
January 18th, 2012 at 2:33 PM
It’s not the first time GS has screwed anybody around. They are notorious for taking orders, sitting on your money for 2-3 months with “backordered” stock, then only cancelling your order when you call to complain.
January 18th, 2012 at 2:34 PM
Reminds me – somebody sent this to me and said it was Brad Pitt. Don’t think it is but it’s hilarious anyway…language…nsfw –
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFPsaxdzyAQ
January 18th, 2012 at 2:46 PM
Are you including Barry Seal under that umbrella?
January 18th, 2012 at 2:46 PM
sounds like a good business model. I’m surprised they are still around.
January 18th, 2012 at 2:48 PM
Finally an interesting golf post!
January 18th, 2012 at 2:51 PM
I saw a guy handing another guy a small baggie full of something white in one of those handshake-exchange deals when I was walking home from work. I thought about calling 911 but the guy looked right at me as he was doing the handshake so I thought he might remember me and shoot me in the near future if he was arrested shortly after I witnessed his drug deal.
January 18th, 2012 at 3:13 PM
yea, ive heard some bullshit about golfsmith. sucks that they’re the only big seller that actually has a good used selection (globalgolf.com is way better tho).
January 18th, 2012 at 3:14 PM
you’d be a real asshole if you did that.