MIAMI – A 72-calendar year-old Southwest Miami-Dade person is talking out following a contractor is busted for exploiting the elderly and taking $14,000 from him and two other victims.
Miami-Dade Police say the operate was by no means performed and say the suspect in this case has confessed that there are 9 other victims as nicely. Law enforcement say a lot of of these who have been qualified are aged.
They say 61-12 months-previous Omar Ramiro Lopez of Palmetto Bay entered into contracts with several aged victims to set up out of doors fencing and claimed he was a certified contractor with his corporation Horizon Structural Developers and unsuccessful to do the do the job and refund funds to his victims and did not return their texts or telephone phone calls.
Miami-Dade Police Detective Geordi Estepan stated, “He’s pretending to be a certified contractor when he actually isn’t really. He is targeting elderly victims. He is promising to do fences and usually takes deposits and does not do the do the job. He has confessed that there are 9 far more victims. That is a great deal of people today and we think there are even more out there.”
Lopez faces prices including an structured plan to defraud, theft from the elderly, 3rd-diploma grand theft and exploitation of the aged.
Brian Domineck, 72, explained to CBS Information MIami’s Peter D’Oench that he gave Lopez a $6200 deposit through 2 checks for a 300-foot chain-hyperlink fence to be constructed at his Southwest Miami-Dade house for $10,432 and no perform was completed and he has lost all of his dollars.
Domineck, an Air Pressure veteran of 11 decades who retired soon after shelling out 35 many years with Miami-Dade Public Faculties, claimed he is discouraged and does not know if he will at any time be ready to have that chain website link fence developed.
Domineck stated, “I compensated him $6200 and checked him out on line and saw he had 5 stars. When he first acquired to my house in May perhaps, he was conversing like he was the most effective and would consider care of anything. He experienced very a scam heading. He even talked to us about his loved ones and his church. But he never ever did any work. He came out and did measurements and that was it. It all started in May. I even went to where his firm was meant to be. I known as him and he did not return calls.”
Domineck explained, “I truly feel negative. I genuinely really feel terrible. It is like he employed me. I really won’t be able to pay for to give away $6200. I assume he really took advantage of us. I am retired. I am retired for 6 many years. I preferred to do some thing to make a much better dwelling. Enable us do that. Never take our money.”
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Domineck said, “I tried out my best to examine up on him and I assumed I did every little thing. I considered he was the guy for the job and it just goes to exhibit you that you in no way can tell.”
MIami-Dade Police imagine there are other victims.
If you are one of them, make contact with their Financial Crimes Unit at (305) 994-1000.
