An unlicensed contractor from Cameron Park was arrested earlier this week on charges that included abandoning a commercial remodeling job last year in Sutter County, the Contractors State License Board reported Wednesday.
Robert E. Omohundro, Jr., 59, was arrested Tuesday in Rancho Cordova and booked into the Sacramento County Jail on suspicion of misrepresenting himself as a licensed contractor and contracting without a license, board Registrar Steve Sands said in a statement.
Efforts to reach Omohundro by phone were unsuccessful. He was not listed as a Sacramento County Jail inmate on Wednesday afternoon.
“The arrest also stresses the importance for consumers to make sure a contractor is properly licensed before hiring them, or giving them any money,” Sands said.
Some time during the summer of 2011, Omohundro took a $2,300 commercial kitchen remodeling job with Dhami’s Mini Mart in the 1200 block of O’Banion Road, authorities said.
Omohundro was supposed to install a fire suppression system in the store’s kitchen and accepted a down payment the board described as “excessive,” but ran out on the task without doing any work.
The amount of the payment was not disclosed.
Store co-owner Dalbir Dhami declined to comment on Wednesday.
With only a few exceptions, state law prohibits contractors from accepting down payments larger than 10 percent of the contract price or $1,000, whichever is less, Sands said.
Omohundro is also accused of ditching a nearly identical contract in Sacramento County, board spokeswoman Venus Stromberg said.
Omohundro received his general contractor’s license in 2000. That licensed expired in 2005 and was never renewed, but he continued working anyway, the board said.
His license was formally revoked in January 2010 “based on his illegal activity,” Sands said.
A warrant for Omohundro’s arrest was issued last month after he failed to appear at a hearing in Sutter County Superior Court, Stromberg said.
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