BAY COUNTY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) – A Tampa-area contractor was found guilty on Tuesday of taking thousands of dollars from an 87-year-old man for a reconstruction job that never happened after Hurricane Michael.
Mark Eugene Stargardt, 66, of Stargardt and Associates, LLC in Valrico, was found guilty of Grand Theft (more than $20,000) after a jury deliberated about three hours.
According to the State Attorney’s office, Stargardt and his company cashed checks from the victim totaling about $38,000 between February 2019 and May 2019, even though by August 2019, no work had been done on the property…