New details into suspicious device at a North Naples Golf Club Christmas party

NORTH NAPLES, Fla.- The annual Pelican Marsh Golf Club Christmas party was evacuated when an employee reported a man walked in with a suspicious device.

The woman, who worked the event, told deputies the man walked straight into the men’s locker room carrying a small 10-inch cylinder in his right hand. When the man, who was wearing a trench coat, didn’t come out the employee opened the door. “I said is anybody in here and no one responded. I said I am going to turn the lights off if nobody is in here and that’s when he said somebody is in here.”

Two club security guards escorted the man outside the club house and said he no longer had the device in his hand. They said he acted calm but continually looked at his watch. The guards described him as strange as if he was not “in his right state of mind”. Reports show the strange man got in his car and drove away.

The employee who spotted the man called 911 and around 60 Christmas party guests evacuated the club house. The man is described as 18 to 24 years old, he had a accent, a mustache, wearing a trench coat and dark pants.

Authorities treated the suspicious device as a bomb but never recovered anything from inside the locker room.