Man charged for $24k incomplete home improvement work

BLAIR COUNTY, Pa. (WTAJ)– A Martinsburg guy faces felony and misdemeanor theft costs after he allegedly was paid just about $24k for several home improvement jobs but hardly ever concluded any do the job.

Point out police stated that David Snyder, 40, was paid out a full of $23,755 for element of the labor he did on some home improvement assignments at two diverse houses, equally owned by the sufferer, but he never ever concluded his get the job done that started in April 2019.

According to an affidavit, one of the homes located at the 300 block of Coventry Court docket in Hollidaysburg Snyder was meant to set up a pellet stove for $2,970.12 in the basement. He then returned it and obtained a unique pellet stove but it under no circumstances confirmed up at the property.

Point out law enforcement said that at a diverse house positioned at the 100 block of Harshbarger Highway in Hollidaysburg Snyder was paid for garden function but mentioned about getting to take away trees ahead of this sort of work could be accomplished. An outside seller was employed by Snyder but the sufferer observed out he only compensated them fifty percent when she observed that the trees were not removed from the garden.

Snyder is at the moment confined in Blair County Prison awaiting demo on former rates with new bail set at $75,000.