Saturday, May 01, 2010

Admitted Home Improvement Scam Artist Wastes No Time Getting Back Into Hot Water, Allegedly Pocketing Cash For Another Project He Failed To Complete

In Danville, Pennsylvania, The Daily Item reports:
  • One day after pleading guilty to scamming two Montour County couples, a Riverside contractor accepted payment for a job he never completed, a Columbia-Montour judge said [] while sending Wayne Lee Biddinger to jail on a total $150,000 cash bail. Judge Thomas James [...] allowed Biddinger to revoke a Dec. 14 guilty plea for scamming a Narehood Road resident, but denied a similar request in a case involving an elderly Mahoning Township couple.

  • On Dec. 15, Biddinger accepted the second of three payments from a Watsontown man for a project he never completed. "This raises it to the level of violation of bail," James said during a 2½-hour hearing. "Look at the record," James said of Biddinger, 54, who has pleaded guilty to theft by services; unauthorized use, forgery, theft by deception; worthless checks and serving one to five years in a state prison for a Milton burglary. Biddinger's adult criminal record extends dates to 1979, with his pleading guilty five times to theft by deception and-or services [...]

For more, see Scam artist jailed (Area man faces trial for thefts by deception).