A contractor faces charges of felony theft and tax evasion after allegedly cheating some Western Washington homeowners out of half a million dollars for construction work she never started.
According to a news release from the Washington State Department of Labor & Industries (L&I), charging papers say Linda Kim Brown made excuses and broke promises to three customers for well over a year about the lack of work on their expensive home remodeling projects. The homeowners lived in Edmonds, Lynnwood and Bellevue.
Brown, 36, has pleaded not guilty to four counts of first-degree theft and one count of filing a false tax return. Her trial is scheduled for Aug. 22 in Snohomish County Superior Court…