okay. if he gives me any figure that exceeds $500 or more for the work i asked him to do, again, i m going to let him know that he s been caught in a contractors board sting operation. hey, partner, my name is karl vega. i m an officer with the state of california. do you have a contractor s license? nope. okay. you re under arrest. i need you to put that down. interlace your fingers. do you recognize that? yep. where s that come out of? the yellow pages. investigators set up shop in dummy houses. this contractor was caught in a sting bidding on a new job just days after abandoning an $11,000 landscaping project. the site looks like a bomb went off there. there s rocks, tools, a wheel barrow dumped over in one of the ditches he had dug. where do you stand with that lady, samantha as far as her job? were you going to finish the job? she didn t pay me for materials. i haven t even got nothing for me. you know, i got my kids, you
the decourseys haven t used the bathroom since. the final insult according to the decourseys was the bill that the contractor delivered. the work from this contractor was to be $90,000 plus change. when he was finished he gave us a bill for $211,000. not only that, but much of the work was done without permits. it was much of the work was done by unlicensed people who were doing the electricity and the plumbing, and much of the work will have to be demolished and redone. like many homeowners who discover problems in the middle of a remodel, they say they were trapped. the problem with a contractor like this is you can t stop in the middle and say, okay, that s enough, i m going to bring in somebody else. there is no somebody else. no other contractor wants to come in on a botched job and repair it.
and there was a dedicated circuit, a 20-amp circuit, right to the main circuit panel. they couldn t understand why anybody would electrify a bathtub. and who was the vp at the company that did the original electrical work? dick birgh s son, stefan. the decourseys haven t used the bathroom since. the final insult according to the decourseys was the bill that the contractor delivered. the work from this contractor was to be $90,000 plus change. when he was finished he gave us a bill for $211,000. not only that, but much of the work was done without permits. it was much of the work was done by unlicensed people who were doing the electricity and the plumbing, and much of the work will have to be demolished and redone. like many homeowners who discover problems in the middle of a remodel, they say they were trapped. the problem with a contractor
i haven t done anything, man. honestly. i ain t pissed anybody off. what do you mean? somebody keeps calling me, dude. i have no idea. despite three new consumer complaints since his last bust, rogers claims this job was on the up and up. and that despite his history of bait and switch he was really only going to charge $500. what s illegal about pulling boards and putting them back on. it will take me like three, four hours. while rogers argues he s being held on a technicality, investigators say it s much more than that. it s about a history of consumer complaints, shoddy and incomplete work, and lowball bids that become budget busters. you have the right to remain silent. anything you say may be used against you in court. while being processed, rogers even pleads his case to our cameras. i m not trying to hide from anybody, dude. you know? just offering a service. it s a handyman service.
the site looks like a bomb went off there. there s rocks, tools, a wheel barrow dumped over in one of the ditches he had dug. where do you stand with that lady, samantha as far as her job? were you going to finish the job? she didn t pay me for materials. i haven t even got nothing for me. you know, i got my kids, you know, to they got to eat, you know? investigators warn that homeowners who pick the lowest bidder may end up paying double. the ladies said he wants more money above and beyond what he was paid. from unskilled workers to those who show up too intoxicated or high to work. you got pot on you? yeah, there s a pipe in my pocket. in a matter of seconds after busting this tree removal team, officers are overpowered by the smell of marijuana. did you smoke a bowl before you came here? no. do you smoke every day? no. whose stuff is that? what stuff? the weed. his. after officers confiscate the