i m going to have to give old pickering a call and tell him you know what, you re fun to play with. pickering has spotted villucci and our cameras and pulls over at a gas station, refusing to drive off. so villucci approaches the vehicle. just wondering what you have been up to, man. i ve been hustling like everybody else. who do you have with you? a friend of mine. pickering denies being a bad contractor and tells us all of his customers have been happy with his work. i ve never taken money from nobody in fact, when i do a job, legit job, when i do contracting, i never took no down you re allowed to take a down payment. i did the whole job. they trusted me. i ve never been burned ever getting paid because i do the job and make sure they re happy. that s when i collect. if they re not happy, they tell me why. i ve got to fix it to collect, you know. pickering s victims are outraged by his claims. i mean, i know $5,000 is not a lot of money, but to me it s a very
an answer that we get from people that have either dope or guns inside of the vehicle. while searching the vehicle we did locate some orange pills. and on here it s got a puma symbol, which you ll see on ecstasy they have a variation of symbols that they stamp it with. when testing ecstasy you use a methamphetamine test. what you ll do is you ll take a knife and you ll shave off a little bit of the pill, pour it into here, and then you break the ampoules one at a time, agitating the entire time the test kit. and it should turn out a dark blue or purplish color. investigators say that every sting operation yields contractors caught with a variety of drugs. from crack to crystal meth. and drugs, investigators warn, are just the tip of the iceberg. we ve got a gentleman up here out of the state of texas. he was on probation for attempted murder. investigator villucci says homeowners looking to save a buck by hiring the lowest bidder
on this day, villucci makes nabbing pickering priority number one. we just drove by roy pickering s house. i did see his work truck in the driveway, so we re going to go get another look. set up a location so we can watch him. villucci and three investigators in separate cars have staked out both of pickering s houses. they hope to catch him working without a license. you see the blue truck leave, if it s a big blue truck, that s the one we want. it s going to have pickering in it. you know what he looks like, right? yep. we ve put three investigators positioned around pickering s house to cover the exit. so when he leaves, we ll be able to tail him. got the truck rolling. he s rolling my way. right behind him. okay. hurry up, doug. you better catch up. after 30 minutes of high-speed u-turns and circular driving, officers suspect that pickering knows he s being tailed. he s screwing with you, rick. i ve been screwed with before.
it takes me a long time to earn that amount of money. i wouldn t recommend him to my worst enemy. i m not that type of guy. i ve never done that, ever. but i like rick said, you know, went down and corrected, fixed it, you know. pickering won t say where he s headed, but promises rick he is not working or misrepresenting himself. since villucci didn t catch him at a job site he has no choice but to let him go. he s got a silver tongue. he ll tell you what you want to hear. he ll make you believe it. and then he ll laugh at you when he s driving off. as pickering drives away, villucci shocks us with a revelation. the man who was hiding his face is contractor tim kent, who just lost his license for being a sex offender. he was a prior licensed contractor. we found that mr. kent had outstanding felony warrants out of placer county. he had warrants for kidnapping, rape and other sexual crimes.
house to cover the exit. so when he leaves, we ll be able to tail him. got the truck rolling. he s rolling my way. right behind him. okay. hurry up, doug. you better catch up. after 30 minutes of high-speed u-turns and circular driving, officers suspect that pickering knows he s being tailed. he s screwing with you, rick. i ve been screwed with before. i m going to have to give old pickering a call and tell him you know what, you re fun to play with. pickering has spotted villucci and our cameras and pulls over at a gas station, refusing to drive off. so villucci approaches the vehicle. just wondering what you have been up to, man. i ve been hustling like everybody else. who do you have with you? a friend of mine. pickering denies being a bad contractor and tells us all of his customers have been happy with his work. i ve never taken money from nobody in fact, when i do a job, legit job, when i do contracting, i never took no down you re allowed to take