A Utah sheriff's office has found that it shouldn't underestimate the golf cart as a getaway car.

A suspect in a souped-up cart managed to elude officers who pursued him last month through an alfalfa field -- but only for a while. He was arrested the next day at his grandmother's house.

The driver was identified as Trev Dawson, of Morgan, Utah. Police recognized him because he'd arrested before on minor charges. Dawson pleaded guilty in to evading police, but if he avoids jail with 12 months of good behavior, the charge will be dismissed.

The incident happened in August when officers saw the golf cart spinning out in a city park in Morgan.

"I lit them up with a spotlight and everybody fled," Morgan County Sheriff's Sgt. Scott Peay told the Standard-Examiner newspaper. Peay said three people were in the golf cart and two on foot, all fleeing the scene in separate directions.

The golf cart took off into an alfalfa field and jumped irrigation ditches that the sheriff's cruisers couldn't cross.

Peay suspected the cart was fitted with a car engine instead of the original electric motor.

"Normally, golf carts can't jump irrigation ditches," Peay told the newspaper. "It wasn't any faster than us, but in the alfalfa field it was jumping irrigation ditches. We couldn't get through the ditches."