A Florida man was taken into custody 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.
DFS-CID agents found that Osborne presented himself as a general contractor and agreed to 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 home uninhabitable…