TOMS RIVER – A 35-calendar year-aged gentleman has been criminally billed in link to a house improvement contracting plan focusing on township inhabitants, police mentioned.
Robert Cohan, 35, of Lakehurst, was charged was with 2nd Diploma Theft by Deception as perfectly as many counts of unregistered residence improvement contracting.
According to police, Cohan’s plan began in February then continued as a result of May and he especially approached people of the Gardens of Nice Plains.
Cohan would solicit citizens to do driveway, sidewalk, as properly as roof, doorway and other home repairs. In that time, he collected much more than $150,000 from his victims.
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Toms River Law enforcement Spokesperson Jillian Messina said that Cohan would gather an initial deposit, then return later and solicit more cash but in no way carried out any of the promised do the job.
In addition, he fraudulently used the name of his family’s development corporation identify in the plan.
On June 23, Detective Robert O’Neill arrested and billed Cohan. Felony prices for 2nd Diploma Theft by Deception were being accredited by the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Place of work. Cohan was remanded to the Ocean County Jail in which he continues to be pending a detention hearing.
