Beware of a group of pavers promising you a new driveway at competitive rates.
A group called Stanley Paving worked on at least four driveways in Susquehanna County last week. All homeowners said they were taken to the cleaners, but they are fighting back.
One of Stanley Paving's recent customer found out company workers have arrest records and mug shots and she is using them to fight back.
Inside convenience stores in Elk Lake and Rush Township in Susquehanna County posters of three men line the walls, but police didn't put them there as wanted posters.
"We put them up there," said Kathleen Troy.
She is mad. She said trucks from Stanley Paving pulled up to her Rush Township home last week claiming they had excess tar and offering to pave her dirt driveway for a low, low price.
The same group paved at least four driveways in the area last week.
The problem with the work is the pavers never put down a sub base and experts said that could mean a lot of cracks and lumps after a cold, Pennsylvania winter.
What really angers customers like Warren Montagna is the final price was a lot higher than the original quote. The difference, Montagna said was, "Somewhere around $1,250." Montagna wasn't happy about that.
Kathleen Troy said it didn't take long to know the paving job was a ripoff. "About five minutes after they left. I went and looked them up on line," she said.
On line Troy discovered New Hamsphire police recently arrested four men from a company named Stanley Paving. The four got out on bond. One mug shot jarred Troy.
"I recognized him instantly, wow. So yeah, these are the guys," said Troy.
The guys are from Connecticut and Massachusetts and face theft and fraud charges in California and Connecticut.
Troy hopes locals take a good look at mug shots she and her husband put up.
"I thought, well, we didn't have any way of warning people," Troy added. "They just pay their bail, move on and keep on going."
The pavers in question are not affiliated with N. Stanley Paving of Clarks Summit. They have been in business locally for 14 years.
Meantime, police in Chester County, Pennsylvania said two men identified in our story by local homeowners are wanted for a heinous crime last July.
Police said they stole $22,000 from an elderly man by drugging him and taking him to the bank to take money out after paving his driveway.