
LEE COUNTY
You employ a accredited corporation to repair your house, but in its place, the contractor brings about extra damage – and an affidavit shows an staff did the hurt on function.
The charging doc claims the staff, TJ McCowan, was caught in the act.
The case is so fresh new that when WINK Information named McCowan, he fundamentally mentioned he did not know anything about any charges filed against him, but paperwork maps out the situation.
The condition has witness testimony and movie proof of the suspected crime in progress.
It began Aug. 13, 2020, at 6:47 a.m. exterior of the Tara Woods group in North Fort Myers. Citizens Residence Coverage investigator Jesus Gonzalez took out his digital camera and started out rolling as Terry James McCowan II, from Marlin Design, arrived. It was the male Citizens had been seeking for.
According to the affidavit, “Citizens experienced a previous suspicious declare with Marlin with the allegation that an staff, TJ McCowan, with Marlin was allegedly harmful roofing elements and exaggerating the problems prior to the adjuster’s arrival.”
Investigator Gonzalez’s digicam captured McCowan inspecting Richard Osbourne’s roof. Osbourne hired Marlin and submitted a complaint with Citizens, giving the insurance coverage corporation the opening it required to observe McCowan.
At 9:53 a.m., “McCowan was observed working with the resource to pry and carry a shingle. McCowan chose various other shingles, pulled them up and manipulated them,” the affidavit states.
That similar day, at 11:30 a.m., Citizens sent an adjuster to the roof and found out the new harm.
Osbourne afterwards advised a detective with the Section of Money Expert services, “At that place, I figured I was in the middle of an investigation.”
That investigation went on for months.
On May well 25, a previous Marlin personnel instructed detectives that other staff members gave McCowan specific directions on having a roof ready.
“By triggering more than enough injury that they qualify for a new roof,” like to “Make absolutely sure there is no Ring doorbell cameras or any neighbors outside the house when you’re doing it.”
WINK News spoke with McCowan, who stated he “had no notion a cost experienced been submitted versus him.”
WINK News manufactured a number of other calls, which includes to Marlin Roofing. A secretary took a concept, inquiring why we wished to discuss with anyone, but no one at any time termed us back.
Citizens Insurance claimed no 1 was out there to remark, and Richard Osbourne, the proprietor of the household with the damaged roof, stated he experienced no comment.
The State Attorney’s Business instructed us they have very little to say other than McCowan’s arraignment on a felony mischief demand is set for early this month.