Three years ago, Gulfport pleasant bungalow was the ideal place for gene therapy and Tina McIntosh, for their family. While planning for a second child, they decided to create a second floor.
You hired Mark S. Kiser, told them he was a licensed partner, could do its job.
But after Kiser demolished parts of the house, he abandoned the work, including $ 66000 couple with money, authorities said.
Today, the house is in a battlefield. The baby sleeps in a crib in the kitchen, his eldest son smushes in bed with them. Once ordered the house is decorated with a dry wall, son enough points and sawdust.
Prosecutors say the couple was misled by Kiser, who they beschwindelnd debt Pinellas two dozen other families over $ 1.1 million. They say left Kiser fill gaps in roofs, holes in floors and zeros in bank accounts in one of the biggest construction Pinellas cases of fraud during recent memory.
Kiser, 48, was in a courtroom of Pinellas County Thursday, where he himself in a first degree felony count of scheming to cheat. It has been translated into Pinellas County Jail bail of $ 100000.
Prosecutors said felony first-degree can make up to 30 years of imprisonment conviction.
“He and his crew have given money citizens ignorant, in some cases, pulled from their homes and left dismantled,” said prosecutor Bill Burgess.
Kiser’s lawyer, Kyle Pennington, said his client may leave the house, some owners unhappy, but he said that a civil proceeding, not a criminal.
“I would not be surprised if you see this is only a store, which was bad,” said Pennington. “Mr. Kiser outside was not the intention to deceive anybody.”
But Kiser said prosecutors have shown a model of the disappointment in December 2000 to July 2002. He left a number of subcontractors unpaid, which links placed on the market a few houses, arresting explanations.