[quote="Victim"]These clowns have been know to work in your area!!!!
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Contractors Convicted Of Illegally Without a License
A Pensacola man is celebrating a court victory, this week.
Two men, accused of doing shoddy work on his business after Hurricane Ivan, must now pay him restitution, but what he really wants is to protect other potential victims.
"Offshore International" in Pensacola was hit hard by Hurricane Ivan.
The storm destroyed the roof and ripped through the building.
Owner, Thomas Brewer, was desperate to get it fixed, but he couldn't find a contractor who was free to do the work....until he came across Ceasar Sanchez and David Tywater, of Brevian Builders, in early 2005.
Thomas Brewer/Pensacola Businessman: "I was very thorough. I went on the internet, I made phone calls and I checked out what they had presented to me as who they were and they checked out perfect."
But the work they did on Brewer's roof was not.
Brewer: "Three days after the roof was finished and the check was cut, the roof was leaking."
Brewer was out nearly twenty thousand dollars.
It turned out the men were working under another contractor's License and all the paperwork they showed him, wasn't their's.
Even the building permit they had was fake.
Brewer called the builders for months and was finally told by one of their salesman....
Brewer: "Mr. Brewer you have been screwed. These people have done this before. They've hurt a lot of other people. They're going to do this again in the future and you've just been screwed and there's nothing I can do to help you. They've already left town."
Brewer tracked them down on the internet and spent the next three years keeping tabs on Sanchez and Tywater.
He worked with local, state, and federal authorities, but in the end it's what he found on his own that sent them to court.
Brewer says Sanchez and Tywater move from state to state, chasing natural disasters and setting up shop under different company names.
Brewer: "What I ended up finding out was that these individuals have got their own computer guy in Lake Jackson, Texas. What he does is he goes in and he sets up these nice, shiny web pages, very professional looking, to basically substantiate their legitimacy."
Brewer says once the complaints start, the websites disappear.
This is a website for a business in Mississippi established by the same computer guy.
Brewer called one of the contact numbers and got this....
"The number you have reached has been disconnected...."
Tuesday, Sanchez and Tywater pleaded no contest to contracting without a license during a state of emergency in Brewer's case.
They were sentenced to five years probation and court ordered to pay restitution.
Brewer says it's not about money, it's about justice.
Brewer: "Hopefully this might slow them down or it might save just even one other person out there from being victimized, once again."
The Pensacola attorney representing Sanchez and Tywater says had "no intent to deceive anybody" and were led to believe they could work under another contractor.
There are now several complaints lodged against Sanchez and Tywater with the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation.
Since Hurricane Ivan, the State Attorney's Office has investigated 360 cases involving contracting without a license in the Panhandle area.
Last Updated: Thursday, January 24 2008, 07:26 PM
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One of these creeps down, a few more to go. Justice moves slow but ain't it SWEET!!!!!!!!!
"Two Contractors Arrested for Felony Home Repair Fraud on Mississippi Coast
October 16 2009
Contact: Jan Schaefer, Public Information Officer
601/359.2002
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Jackson, MS--Two out-of-state contractors have been arrested for felony home repair fraud against Katrina victims on Mississippi’s Gulf Coast, announced Attorney General Jim Hood today.
Carlos Enrique Sanchez (Ceasar, Cesar Sanchez's brother), age 42, of Pearland, Texas (dba Mineo Homes) was arrested Wednesday, October 14, on three indictments for felony home repair fraud. Sanchez and his now former business partner, Samuel Mineo were indicted for failing to do work they were paid to do on three homes ( two in Gulfport, one in Pass Christian) that were lost due to Hurricane Katrina. Mineo turned himself in to the Attorney General’s Office in October 2008. Sanchez did not turn himself in after agreeing to do so and has since been considered “on the run”. The Mississippi Attorney General’s Office requested the assistance of the Texas Attorney General’s Office after learning Sanchez was in Texas. He was arrested in Austin, TX on September 16, 2009 by the Texas Attorney General’s Office and returned to Mississippi on Wednesday by the Harrison County Sheriff’s Office. Sanchez was booked into the Harrison County Adult Detention Center. He faces up to 10 years and/or a $10,000 fine, plus restitution to the victims. The case was investigated by the Consumer Protection Division of the Attorney General’s Office and will be prosecuted in conjunction with District Attorney Cono Caranna’s Office.
“We would like to thank Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, Travis County Texas Sheriff Greg Hamilton and both of their offices for all of their work in this case,” said Attorney General Hood. “Their teamwork combined with the efforts of Harrison County Sheriff Melvin Brisolara, District Attorney Cono Caranna and their offices will make sure this case reaches a just resolution.”
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