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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Efforts to reach Omohundro by phone were unsuccessful. He was not listed as a Sacramento County Jail inmate on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n
“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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The amount of the payment was not disclosed.<\/p>\n
Store co-owner Dalbir Dhami declined to comment on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Omohundro is also accused of ditching a nearly identical contract in Sacramento County, board spokeswoman Venus Stromberg said.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
His license was formally revoked in January 2010 “based on his illegal activity,” Sands said.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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