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Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Contractor Indicted on Charges Including Theft and Records Tampering

MAYS LANDING – Atlantic County Grand Juries indicted a Raleigh, North Carolina Contractor, Christopher Mihalic, age 35 of Raleigh, N.C. yesterday for Failure to Register with the Division of Consumer Affairs, Tampering with Public Records or Information, Theft by Deception and Theft by Illegal Retention for contracting work directly related to Super Storm Sandy, Atlantic County Prosecutor Jim McClain announced today.
The Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office Financial Crimes Unit conducted investigations into Christopher Mihalic and his business Mihalic and Son Contracting, LLC after receiving information from the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office of the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor.

The State alleges that in November 2012, Mihalic defrauded each of the Atlantic County Victims (six in total) of over $500.00 each after Mihalic became involved with the victims directly after Super Storm Sandy impacted the State and their individual residences. It is alleged that Mihalic promised to do rehabilitation work on the victims’ storm damaged homes. In some instances, Mihalic and Son Contracting, LLC did perform some work but failed to complete the contracted work as promised.
It is further alleged that in some instances Mihalic knowingly engaged or attempted to engage in the business of making or selling home improvements while not being registered as a Home Improvement Contractor with the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs and/or provided false information on an application for a Home Improvement Registration application to the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs.
Mihalic was indicted on 7 counts of Failure to Register with the Division of Consumer Affairs, a crime of the 4th degree, 1 count of Tampering with Public Records or Information, a crime of the 3rd degree, 6 counts of Theft by Deception, a crime of the 3rd degree and 7 counts of Theft By Illegal Retention, a crime of 3rd degree.
A crime of the 3rd degree carries a potential sentence of three to five years of incarceration in New Jersey State Prison. A 4th degree crime carries a potential sentence of imprisonment not to exceed 18 months.
Assistant Prosecutor John Flammer represented the State in the cases.
These indictments are merely accusations and not proof of guilt. In all criminal cases, an indicted defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.

Anyone with information involving serious crimes is asked to call the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office at 609-909-7800 or go to the Prosecutor’s Office Web site at http://www.acpo.org/tips.html and provide information by filling out the form anonymously on the Submit a Tip page. People can also call Crime Stoppers at 609-652-1234 or 1-800-658-8477 (TIPS) or visit the Crime Stoppers Website at http://www.crimestoppersatlantic.com/. Crime Stoppers offers cash rewards for information leading to the arrest and indictment of those who commit crimes in Atlantic County.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

There were many more victims in Ocean and Monmouth Counties.

Anonymous said...

Christopher Mihalic is currently incarcerated in Norfolk, Virginia City Jail.

Anonymous said...

Christopher Mihalic is currently in Raleigh, North Carolina and is facing more charges there. He is now out on bond.

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