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Justin Ort guilty of an indictment in connection with the theft of money from his customers, while he worked as a contractor in Summit County. His plea deal rejected accusations regarding tax evasion, since he completely paid back reimbursement of reimbursement of reimbursement before his conviction on June 9th.
The deputy district prosecutor Jeanine Svoboda said when convicted that the crimes of orders had to do with fraud fraud, which it was “all too often”. He would meet customers, choose materials, agree on a contract, ask the down payment, then do little to no work at all and deliver little or no materials, she said.
More than a dozen people claimed to commit regulatory theft against them by taking money but never completing the work for which his company was hired, according to the public prosecutor. Svoboda said nine victims were represented in the case, and others did not want to continue to do with orders.
If customers were trying to contact ARC, he would captivate them, said Svoboda. In two cases in the investigation, these were subcontractors who had not completed the work they had hired, and in these cases Ord did not communicate with the customers, she said.
Ort owed an offense of class 1 guilty of theft in connection with a case of August 2022, in which a husband and a wife were involved, the Alpenenglow Kitchen and Cabinets LLC, one of the ERM companies to convert the kitchen in their holiday home. The husband paid a deposit by check in the amount of $ 12,983 according to court documents that ARM had redeemed and paid into his personal account.
Court documents state that some work was completed and the husband and woman received some materials. The couple tried several times to turn with orders to end the work, but did not answer and never ended the contractual work.
One of the victims involved in the case appealed to the court during the conviction, and Svoboda Las Impact's declarations of seven others. The victims emphasized that their individual experiences were part of a series of crimes that made them financially and emotionally worse.
The victim who spoke, spoke directly to Ord and said that he had violated the trust of the good hardworking people and left the families to live with the consequences of his actions. They asked the court to judge him in full of the law.
The Ord approved a direct culprit for the indictment for the indictment, and his prison sentence includes the payment of the reimbursement he has already concluded four years of supervision, 100 hours of non -profit service and paid 396 US dollar at the public prosecutor's office.
The probation could end early as soon as the Ord has completed half of it, but the postponed judgment will not end four years ago. The postponed judgment applies to class 3 theft of an endangered victim.
The court documents ceased “in a lot of trust” when a man hired in the 80s to convert his kitchen, bathroom and floors after water damage in his secondary residence. The man wrote orders two checks, one for $ 14,621 as a deposit for kitchen materials and one for $ 13,088 as a deposit for floor coverings, carpets and bathroom tiles.
Ord has redeemed both checks and deposited to his personal account, but according to court documents, he did not provide any contract material or completed one of the contractual work. The neighbor of the man got part of the floor coverings from the ERM business and installed it herself.
The crime of class 3 for the theft of an endangered victim contains a punishment of four to 12 years in prison and fines of $ 3,000 to $ 750,000.
Judge Reed Owens led the conviction of Ord and said that if he violated the conditions of his postponed judgment, the credential of crime would return to the court to convict. If Ord follows the conditions of the postponed judgment for the tenure of four years, his guilty plea is withdrawn and the count is rejected.