A Florida man was arrested for acting as an unlicensed contractor. Florida Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia recently announced the arrest of Cornelius Sentell Osborne, who was accused of acting as an unlicensed contractor and pocketing $174,000 from the victim of a house fire in South Florida.
An investigation by DFS-CID agents found Osborne presented himself as a general contractor and agreed to do restoration work on a fire-damaged home in Hollywood, Florida. After collecting $174,000 from the victim, Osborne allegedly abandoned the project after several months, leaving the victim’s house uninhabitable.
Cornelius Sentell Osborne was arrested in Plantation, Florida by Department of Financial Services Criminal Investigations Division officers…