Convicted felon under investigation again for unfinished home improvement jobs
Apex Police Main Jason Armstrong tells Troubleshooter Diane Wilson his department acquired warrants versus Roger Dale Simmons for careers that involved Apex house owners. Armstrong stated the warrants received towards Simmons are for acquiring house by fake pretense (x2), failure to comprehensive function (X2), and felony worthless examine.
These charges relate to a tale ABC11 did in March. Four distinct Apex householders employed Simmons, who owned the home improvement business enterprise Deck Ace.
All four owners signed contracts with the business Deck Ace, which also goes by Deck Ace Handyman Providers, to convert current porches into all-period rooms. 3 of the homeowners have paid out Simmons countless numbers of dollars for get the job done, but none of them have a completed project.
The fourth home owner signed a contract with Simmons and paid him $1,200, but no function has happened to day. What these Apex householders say they didn’t know when they hired Simmons is his previous felony background.
Troubleshooter Diane Wilson is quite acquainted with Simmons mainly because of her investigations that started in 2018 when house owners in Durham and Wake counties came to Wilson after he took countless numbers of dollars for home enhancement work and left them with shoddy and unfinished work.
Back then, those property owners experienced no concept Simmons by now served jail time in North Carolina for fraud. In addition, in Virginia he had much more than 20 judgments totaling additional than $50,000 versus him. Simmons also owned a transforming company and experienced grievances submitted from him in Texas.
Right after Wilson’s investigation in 2018 and 2019, Simmons was convicted of various counts of obtaining residence below fake pretenses and served time at the rear of bars. He was also requested to fork out $73,000 in restitution.
According to North Carolina state information, Simmons received out of jail in August of 2019, and just a couple of months immediately after, he registered his new remodeling business enterprise in Wake County.
In March, after we showed you how Simmons remaining the Apex owners, we read from 5 Cary house owners who also hired Simmons. They said following they paid out a significant part of their agreement, Simmons left them with unfinished work.
“He’s done a ton of damage to quite a few householders,” Cary property owner Venkat claimed. Venkat paid out Simmons a lot more than $32,000 for a sunroom and screened-in porch that is not concluded.
Wilson verified Cary Police Office has an lively investigation into Simmons.
In March when Troubleshooter Diane Wilson bought in touch with Simmons about the Apex employment, he explained he’s carried out the do the job he was employed to do according to the deal. For the a few house owners that Simmons did do work for, he suggests they explained to him to prevent doing the job even with currently being eager to complete their positions.
He mentioned the concerns with permits require the slab footer/basis on some of the jobs and promises the owners were being dependable to secure the right inspections for that element of the position. Simmons promises he was led to imagine the house owners did get the inspections when he commenced his framing function on the all-time rooms.
He promises as soon as the householders figured out about his past prison background, they “bullied him.”
“In the end they all teamed up jointly and advised me to depart there (sic) job web page. I did NOT want to go away I preferred to complete there (sic) task. I begged them to you should let me complete the tasks,” Simmons claimed. Most not long ago Simmons blamed a large amount of the difficulties on the jobs, with the homeowners, and said there is considerably additional to the story.
In his most modern e mail to Wilson, Simmons wrote, “You will get my aspect of the tale when my attorney decides it is time.”
The NC Licensing Board of Typical Contractors explained the group is also investigating considering that Simmons is not accredited to do perform for extra than $30,000, and a person of the Cary property owners that hired Simmons has contracts that overall a lot more than $30,000. The Executive Director of the Board said Simmons was beforehand placed under an injunctive buy submitted in Wake County Outstanding Court docket by the NCLBGC.
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