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NAME: Rafaela Juarez and Hugo Juarez-Zaragoza | ALIASES: Juarez also believed to go by "Ana" and "Lisa" | WANTED FOR: Crimes against persons, failure to appear, contracting without a license | HISTORY: The agency received and investigated 11 complaints against the couple between 2010 and 2016. During this time, the money paid by consumers to these two unlicensed entities is alleged to total $138,100. The contracted-for work typically involves landscaping and the couple is known to work in Sun City, Sun City West and Sun City Grand areas. In late October 2016, Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich and the Arizona Registrar of Contractors announced a judge had issued an arrest warrant for an El Mirage couple accused of stealing more than $15,000 from owners of a Surprise home in a construction-fraud scheme. The state grand jury indicted Juarez and Juarez-Zaragoza. | WARRANT ISSUED FROM: State grand jury
NAME: Patrick Mike Callahan | WANTED FOR: Contracting without a license. | HISTORY: He is alleged by the Arizona Registrar of Contractors to taking thousands of dollars in advance, failing to produce any of the materials and then abandoning the job. He is accused of targeting the elderly with this type of contracting scam. | WARRANT ISSUED FROM: Maricopa County
NAME: Joseph William Wharton II | WANTED FOR: Contracting without a license | HISTORY: Wharton has outstanding warrants in several Arizona counties. He has been accused of targeting the elderly and soliciting contracting jobs by knocking on doors and giving a false name. He allegedly performs unnecessary work such as applying a roof sealant. He is accused of continuing to increase the agreed upon price of work as long as he can obtain additional money from his victims. | WARRANT ISSUED FROM: Maricopa County
NAME: Bogdan "Bo" Craciunescu | WANTED FOR: Fraudulent schemes | HISTORY: He is accused by the Arizona Registrar of Contractors of being an unlicensed entity and victimizing people in Maricopa County by taking large amounts of money up front for contracting jobs and then failing to produce material he says he purchased and abandoning jobs. This has resulted in a felony warrant for fraudulent schemes. | STATUS: Bond paid; prosecution pending through the attorney general
Robert Green, suspected of collecting contracting fees and operating without a license, was arrested in Florida.
James Servellon, a most-wanted unlicensed contractor in Arizona, was arrested July 29, 2017, in California.
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An Arizona man whom authorities say collected thousands of dollars for unfinished bathroom remodels has been arrested in Florida.
Robert Green, 37, formerly of Gilbert, was apprehended outside a restaurant and bar in Orlando on an arrest warrant issued in Maricopa County.
How to find the best contractor. In Arizona, you can search azroc.gov to find reports on contractors before you sign a contract.
He was on the Arizona Registrar of Contractors' Most Wanted list. The U.S. Marshals Service and the Orlando Police Department worked to track him down.
A warrant was issued after Green failed to appear for a pretrial conference last October related to a case in Maricopa County Superior Court, where he stands accused of one felony charge stemming from a Contractors Office investigation that found he contracted without a license yet represented to homeowners that he was licensed. The investigation determined that Green took in more than $72,000 for bathroom remodels, did some labor but later abandoned the work.
According to the Registrar of Contractors office, Green ran Desertscape Designs LLC and operated in Gilbert, Mesa, Tempe and Goodyear.
The Contractors Office received five other complaints about Green. According to those complaints, some homeowners assumed he was licensed based on his professional-looking website and gave him a combined $14,700. Investigators found that he collected money yet performed little or no work before disappearing.
According to the Seminole County Sheriff's Office, Green was booked as an out-of-state fugitive and may not be bailed.
The Registrar of Contractors' Most Wanted list names 17 men and one woman, 13 of whom have been arrested, with a few facing prosecution and sentencing.
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