The Alberta Government has charged Redwood Meadows contractor Kieron Warren with two counts of fraud and two of theft under $5,000.
Warren is accused of taking payments totaling nearly $160,000 from couples in the Calgary and area for home renovations that were never completed.
Warren, along with Greta Warren, operated the contracting company Kreate, and has also been accused of numerous charges under Service Alberta’s Fair Trading Act, including five counts of operating without a prepaid contractor licence, failing to provide a contract that complies with provincial legislation, failing to refund consumers within 15 days of the consumer cancelling the contract, misleading a consumer, misrepresenting when goods or services would be supplied and one count of failing to provide a copy of the signed contract to the consumer.
In a press release, Manmeet S. Bhullar, minister of Service Alberta, said, “Contractors who take advantage of honest, hard-working Albertans should be forewarned that this government has strict consumer protection rules and we will enforce them to the full extent of the law.”
Kieron Warren is scheduled to appear in Okotoks provincial court Nov. 18 and Calgary provincial court Nov. 21.
