HOLLYWOOD, Fla. – An aged woman in Hollywood is disenchanted after she says she was once scammed by means of a plumber.
Local 10 News’ Layron Livingston found out the suspect has a long legal historical past.
Where the plumber is now and what number of sufferers he’s left at the back of stays unknown.
A police document has been filed with Hollywood police, and they’re actively investigating the case.
Stacy LoPiano stated it ended up costing her 80-year-old, wheelchair the use of mom an extra $2,000 to mend what she had already paid the primary, so-called plumber $3,500 to fix.
“About two flushes after, he left the house, the house flooded,” LoPiano stated. “The bedroom, the closet, the dining room, the bathroom.”
She stated the person’s identify was once Robert Hibbert, or “Bob,” the self-proclaimed “leak specialist.” He was once employed past due ultimate month to mend LoPiano’s mom’s leaky rest room.
“We found out nothing was done,” she stated. “He didn’t do anything except take the toilet off and put it back on.”
He then ghosted them once they requested for money back.
LoPiano then did a little analysis and located tale after tale about Hibbert.
“He’s been arrested in Delaware, Connecticut, Florida,” she stated. “He’s had a judgement against him to pay $26,000. He was just arrested in the Keys this year.”
That arrest was once for unlicensed contracting. Hibbert has even served time, a minimum of two times, for contractor fraud.
“I sent him his own articles, with his mug shots,” LoPiano stated. “I said, ‘I know who you are, I know what you did, and I’m asking you to settle this with me, and if you don’t, I’m calling the news, I’m calling a lawyer, I’m calling the police.”
Hibbert didn’t resolution when Local 10 News known as, and there’s nonetheless no phrase on the place he lately is.
“He doesn’t care, he showed that he doesn’t care what people think of him, he doesn’t care what he does to people,” stated LoPiano. “I’m just hoping that’ he’s stopped.”
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