Warrant issued for contractor’s arrest after failing to show up for court to answer to fraud charge

A development contractor who owes about $80,000 in varied civil fits now faces legal fees. 

Colton Chaulk, proprietor of CWD Development, didn’t seem in provincial courtroom Monday to reply to a cost that he didn’t full a contract for renovations, however stored the cash anyway. 

Chaulk faces one other legal cost that was not handled Monday, RCMP mentioned. It includes allegations he produced a solid doc within the type of a pretend constructing allow. 

As a result of he did not present up in courtroom, a warrant has been issued for his arrest.

The fraud cost, which includes a house in Hunter River, means police imagine he by no means supposed to do the work.

The house owners, who reside in Alberta and had been unable to fulfill Chaulk in particular person earlier than hiring him, have been making an attempt to get again about $30,000. 

Michelle Benoit mentioned Chaulk dug holes round their property and ruined their deck, however didn’t full an addition or insulate the house as he was employed to do. 

“We simply need him to be held accountable for what he is finished,” she mentioned.

‘Would not sit proper with us’

“He did no work and feels that he would not owe us our a refund. That does not sit proper with us. We simply wish to be sure that he is prevented from doing this to anybody else.” 

Benoit mentioned the expertise has precipitated them to lose their belief in folks. 

“We did not imagine there have been folks on the market that might do such a factor.”

Different civil courtroom paperwork share related tales of Chaulk being employed for initiatives and doing the work poorly, or by no means.