AUBuilder

Congrats. Glad you got em. It's scum like that guy that give us contractors a bad name.

sniper

What happens if they dont pay the restitution? You have to fight them back to court. Where do they live? What if they move out of state? Just curious. I thought a feloney REQUIERED jail time. I may be wonrg. Never been to jail in my life.

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d45miller

Congrats! I'm sure that was a very frustrating ordeal. Chalk one up for the good guys.:toast

reelfinatical

Just saw it - Glad you got 'em!

Can anything be done to thewebsite creator??

curtpcol

Just saw the News ( Good for You ) They did not get near enough fines to me it is just like robbing someone . Glad you caught them and you did it alone CONGRATS.

Boatjob1

Thanks for all of the kind words guyzzzzz. It really means alot. Please also keep in mind that what you saw on the news was 2 minutes 10 seconds of a 1 hour and 45 minute interview. ALSO, they did not mention that these guyshad the balls to give me and the SBA auditors a fake building permit. Mollye Barrows was a true professional and an absolute pleasure to deal with...... Tight lines all. TB

PS The questions, they are from Texas and will probably have there probation switched to Texas. If they miss a monthly payment threw either Florida or Texas, they will be in violation of there probation and will end up arrested again. They have agreed to pay a large lump sum up front and pay off the rest in short order.

Boatjob1

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<SPAN class=story_headline id=headline3>Contractors Convicted Of Illegally Without a License
<P class=story_copy><SPAN id=text3>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.
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BigFishKB

I am glad they got busted!!!!!!

FLWhaler

Here is the link to my scumbag that I was able to get locked up.

http://www.dc.state.fl.us/ActiveInma...ionID=78027903

Glad you got yours but still feel like they need to serve time.