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Posted: February 12, 2008

Man Indicted in Botched Remodeling Job

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Raleigh, N.C. — A contractor at the center of a 5 on Your Side investigation was indicted Tuesday on theft and fraud charges.

John Shearer was hired in 2006 to remodel the Wake Forest home of Carol and George McPhaul. Shearer's company, Home Remodeling Solutions, was supposed to make their home more handicap-accessible.

Carol McPhaul is legally blind, and her husband has had a stroke and is on oxygen therapy.

The McPhauls said they paid Shearer almost $125,000, but he left them with unfinished rooms, holes in the floor and live wires dangling from the ceiling.

The state Attorney General's Office sued Shearer last July, accusing him of deceptive and unfair trade practices.

The indictments charge Shearer with stealing the McPhauls credit card, obtaining property by false pretense, filing a false police report and felony theft.

RELATED TOPICS: Wake Forest

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I think PikeMom4real is in with these bad contractors, why else would she make a crazy statement like "I don't understand why people turn to a news channel to tell their business!Why can't these people go to the Attorney General,etc. It's like WRAL wants to turn into a Dr.Phil's office."

If I got ripped off like these people did I would call the News and whoever would put them on Blast and let the World know. Good job WRAL....
souljp1
February 18, 2008 11:14 a.m.
This is when you use the INTERNET.

www.my3cents.com
Click to view my profile PikeMom4real
February 15, 2008 9:10 a.m.
You are 100% correct NCMOMO..if it wasn't for the news then all of the contractors and volunteers that helped finished the job that this jackleg botched would probably have never been done since no one would have known about it. It is horrible for folks to take advantage of people, especially the elderly. I hope this loser gets all that he deserves and more!
ctrl+alt+delete
February 14, 2008 5:11 p.m.
One poster said they didn't understand why people turn to a news channel to tell their business. Well, sometimes no one else is listening and getting "their business" on the news and out there for the public to hear is the only way to get anything done. I wonder if the public had not been aware of what this contractor had done, if anything would have happened to him? Also, if the law had failed to act, at least the public would have been aware of his horrible business ethics
NCMOMof3
February 14, 2008 4:33 p.m.
I don't understand why people turn to a news channel to tell their business!Why can't these people go to the Attorney General,etc. It's like WRAL wants to turn into a Dr.Phil's office.
Click to view my profile PikeMom4real
February 14, 2008 2:36 p.m.
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