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Over-the-Top Prices=Jail03-09-10 | News

Over-the-Top Prices=Jail




An unlicensed landscape contractor who left an elderly Hillsborough man with a $70,000 bill to fix $120,000 of shoddy work and inflated costs including a $3,500 cherry tree was sentenced to 20 days in jail.
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The landscape contractor, Edilberto Heredia, must also spend three years on supervised probation and pay restitution in an amount to be determined at an April hearing. The sentence is 100 days less than the maximum Heredia faced when he pleaded no contest to misdemeanor contracting without a license. The term is ?EUR??,,????'?????<

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Even worse, according to authorities, is that the man will spend another $70,000 to repair the lackluster work. The $13,000 price tag for plants and labor included a single cherry tree sold for $3,650.

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