{"id":4343,"date":"2012-09-22T07:00:50","date_gmt":"2012-09-22T12:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=4343"},"modified":"2012-09-22T10:44:29","modified_gmt":"2012-09-22T15:44:29","slug":"jpd-warns-of-contractor-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=4343","title":{"rendered":"JPD Warns Of Contractor Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Jamestown, ND\u00a0 (KCSi-T.V. News Sept 21, 2012)\u00a0 &#8212; \u00a0The Jamestown Police Department is warning residents that alleged scammers may be operating in the area.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/JPDbulletin.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4366\" title=\"JPDbulletin\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/JPDbulletin-300x202.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/JPDbulletin-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/JPDbulletin-259x175.png 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/JPDbulletin.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Police say the scammers are purportedly\u00a0going to \u00a0homeowners with promises to immediately replace damaged asphalt with material left over from a job the crew is supposedly just finished.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Police have evidence that some of the crew members are from out of state and are\u00a0 unlicensed and not\u00a0bonded.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">So far the group has been targeting rural areas.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">The licensing process for North Dakota and Jamestown requires the posting of a bond so that in the event of substandard work, customers can file a claim against the bond to recover some of their losses.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Without a license or bond, there is no legal guarantee to back the quality of the repair or material, and no way to have faulty work fixed without charge by the contractor.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown, ND\u00a0 (KCSi-T.V. News Sept 21, 2012)\u00a0 &#8212; \u00a0The Jamestown Police Department is warning residents that alleged scammers may be operating in the area.\u00a0 Police say the scammers are purportedly\u00a0going to \u00a0homeowners with promises to immediately replace damaged asphalt with material left over from a job the crew is supposedly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4366,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4343"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4367,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4343\/revisions\/4367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}