Harrison police accuse domestic enchancment contractor of taking cash up entrance for paintings that wasn’t performed

Harrison police have charged a house enchancment contractor with part a dozen criminal counts after two citizens reported that they paid him cash up entrance for paintings he by no means finished.

Jason Raymond Mager, 46, of the 400 block of Ridge Road in Springdale faces two counts every of creating false statements to get sufferers to signal a freelance, robbery through deception and misleading or false industry practices. All are felonies.

Mager was once launched from custody on a nonmonetary bond and ordered to look for a initial listening to Jan. 18 prior to District Pass judgement on Carolyn Bengel, in line with court docket data.

Police wrote in a felony grievance {that a} couple reported Sept. 24 they employed Mager in February to surround their porch.

They instructed investigators they paid him $6,800 money, however he by no means did the paintings, the grievance mentioned. The couple instructed police that prior to reporting Mager they contacted him a number of instances through phone and despatched him textual content messages to present him an opportunity to accomplish the paintings, however he made excuses for why he may just now not do the undertaking.

The couple gave police a replica of the contract they and Mager signed at the side of a receipt for the financial institution withdrawal they made to pay him, the grievance mentioned.

3 days after the primary couple reported the alleged robbery, police spoke with a Harrison resident who instructed them they paid Mager $4,000 up entrance on July 12 for fencing paintings, police mentioned.

They instructed police that Mager despatched them an bill on Aug. 10 record the entire fabrics wanted for the undertaking, the grievance mentioned.

On Aug. 24, Mager installed 12 of the 16 fence posts that had been wanted however by no means returned to finish the activity.

Additionally they instructed police that Mager time and again made excuses for why the paintings was once left unfinished. They gave investigators a replica of the settlement they signed with Mager in addition to a replica of the canceled take a look at that he cashed.

Mager is looking forward to trial on a criminal robbery depend filed June 22 through Allegheny Valley Regional Police, in line with court docket data.

Mager’s title didn’t seem all through a web-based seek of the state Lawyer Common’s record of registered contractors.

In December 2015, Mager pleaded in charge to misdemeanor counts of robbery and receiving stolen belongings filed through Frazer police. He was once sentenced to 3 years of probation, court docket data display.