LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A Las Vegas contractor faces a number of fraud-related expenses after he allegedly took cash from prospects for landscaping providers and failed to finish the initiatives.
On Feb. 4, investigators with the Nevada Lawyer Common’s Workplace arrested Jon Banning, 51, who owns JTB Landscaping, a Las Vegas landscaping firm, on an impressive felony arrest warrant.
Based on a launch, the warrant expenses Banning with eight expenses referring to fraudulent transactions by way of the landscaping firm. Courtroom information present that Banning faces 9 expenses.
The discharge stated the case started by way of a Nevada State Contractors Board investigation after a number of complaints from owners, principally seniors, have been filed. The complaints stated that Banning took tens of hundreds of {dollars} from owners and deposits on landscaping and pool initiatives.
The complaints additional alleged that Banning failed to finish the initiatives or, in some circumstances, failed to begin the initiatives whereas refusing to return any of the cash despatched to him by the victims.
In whole, the victims misplaced greater than $308,000, the discharge stated.
After the NSCB investigation, the legal professional normal’s workplace filed a legal grievance that resulted in an arrest warrant issued by the Las Vegas Justice Courtroom.
Banning faces three counts of fraud/deceit in course of enterprise/occupation, three counts of acquiring cash, property, lease or labor by false pretense, valued between $25,000 and $100,000 in violation of probation and three counts of acquiring cash, property, lease or labor by false pretense, valued at greater than $25,000, however lower than $100,000.
Courtroom information present he was held with out bail on the Clark County Detention Heart.
Prospects working with a contractor must be looking out for widespread purple flags and notify the NSCB about any issues or alleged illegal actions.
These purple flags embody:
Calls for for giant downpayments or cash-only funds
Failure to place the phrases of a venture in writing
No contractor’s license quantity and/or contractor info doesn’t match the NSCB’s web site
Aggressive gross sales techniques and pushy ‘today-only’ pricing
The NSCB accepts client complaints in opposition to licensed contractors as much as 4 years from the date work was carried out and as much as two years when work is carried out by a licensed contractor.
