okay. if he gives me any figure that exceeds $500 or more for the work i asked him to do, again, i m going to let him know that he s been caught in a contractors board sting operation. hey, partner, my name is karl vega. i m an officer with the state of california. do you have a contractor s license? nope. okay. you re under arrest. i need you to put that down. interlace your fingers. do you recognize that? yep. where s that come out of? the yellow pages. investigators set up shop in dummy houses. this contractor was caught in a sting bidding on a new job just days after abandoning an $11,000 landscaping project. the site looks like a bomb went off there. there s rocks, tools, a wheel barrow dumped over in one of the ditches he had dug. where do you stand with that lady, samantha as far as her job? were you going to finish the job? she didn t pay me for materials. i haven t even got nothing for me. you know, i got my kids, you
a contractor s license. you know you need a lot of work done out here. i m going to show him some things that i know do require a license to do, and i m going to ask him for a ballpark figure. i think you re between 8,000 and 10,000. 8,000 and 10,000? yeah. okay. if he gives me any figure that exceeds $500 or more for the work i asked him to do, again, i m going to let him know that he s been caught in a contractors board sting operation. hey, partner, my name is karl vega. i m an officer with the state of california. do you have a contractor s license? nope. okay. you re under arrest. i need you to put that down. interlace your fingers. do you recognize that? yep. where s that come out of? the yellow pages. investigators set up shop in dummy houses. this contractor was caught in a sting bidding on a new job just days after abandoning an $11,000 landscaping project.