Morgan grand jury indicts Huntsville man for house restore fraud

Jan. 22—Indicted by a Morgan County grand jury on three counts of house restore fraud and two associated counts of forgery, a Huntsville man stays within the Morgan County Jail greater than six months after his arrest.

Decatur police charged Johnny Ray Jordan, 61, with the 5 felonies after Decatur and Lacey’s Spring residents reported they employed and paid Jordan, who claimed to be a licensed contractor, to carry out work at their residences. They instructed police he didn’t do the work.

His bail is about at $115,000, in keeping with Morgan County Jail data.

In keeping with affidavits by Decatur police Detective Eric Keller, Jordan represented himself as a licensed contractor within the state working beneath the enterprise title Huntsville Development and Transforming — J&J Development. He listed a license quantity 2114716.

“On account of the truth that Jordan doesn’t personal the corporate or have a sound Alabama contractor license these paperwork have fictitious info which have been falsely made with an invalid license quantity with a purpose to deceive the resident into believing that Jordan is an authorized license contractor,” Keller wrote.

One of many indictments, dated Dec. 8, mentioned Jordan “induced misrepresentation of a cloth truth referring to the phrases of the contract or settlement that (Jordan) promised efficiency which he didn’t intend or knew wouldn’t be carried out.”

District Legal professional Scott Anderson mentioned it is essential that his workplace try to thwart this sort of criminality.

“An individual’s house is sort of all the time their most useful asset,” he mentioned final week. “I feel it can be crucial for prosecutors and legislation enforcement to pursue felony fees and the suitable punishment for anybody who poses a menace to that funding.”

No trial date has been set.

Alabama court docket data present Jordan has been charged with theft, forgery or fraud in Morgan, Limestone, Madison and Cullman counties greater than 40 occasions since 1994. Jordan’s handwritten movement to scale back his bond within the pending Morgan County circumstances was denied, in keeping with the choose, partially as a result of he was on probation for a Limestone County cost.

Jordan has filed quite a few handwritten pleadings, together with one searching for a change of venue as a consequence of in depth pretrial publicity and one other searching for to terminate his court-appointed lawyer. His lawyer, Dwight Jett Jr., on Nov. 22 filed a movement asking the court docket for clarification on whether or not he nonetheless represented Jordan. The court docket has not dominated on the movement.

Within the movement, Jett famous that the District Legal professional’s Workplace had supplied a plea cut price during which Jordan could be sentenced to fifteen years, with three years in jail adopted by probation “and a major quantity of restitution.” Jett wrote that Jordan rejected the settlement and demanded a jury trial.

Second-degree forgery and a second conviction of house restore fraud are each Class C felonies, punishable as much as 10 years in jail and a wonderful as much as $15,000.

Among the many indictments issued final month, 35 concerned possession of managed substances.

Different indictments issued final month:

—Shanta Lavette Abernathy, 46, Muscle Shoals; second-degree home violence.

—Elbert Anderson, 33, Decatur; two counts of trafficking in managed substance, sure individuals forbidden from proudly owning a firearm.

—Warren Andrew Bennett Jr., 30, Athens; second-degree manufacture of a managed substance.

—Christina Necole Bolding, 36, Muscle Shoals; third-degree theft.

—Tameeka Yolanda Buford, 47, Decatur; 5 counts of first-degree identification theft, first-degree theft, 5 counts of third-degree forgery.

—Kecia Denise Burden, 41, Florence; trafficking in managed substance.

—Katlin Amber Burgess, 25, Decatur; first-degree theft.

—Katlyn Nicole Burks, 25, Madison; first-degree receiving stolen property.

—William Wayne Cox, 57, Decatur; third-degree housebreaking.

—Brandon Jacob Delgado, 25, Decatur; second-degree assault.

—Curtis Wayne Dillon, 50, Decatur; three counts of dissemination of obscene materials, three counts of possession of obscene materials.

—Greg Allen Dotson, 44, Decatur; first-degree tried theft.

—Kelsie Faye Fletcher, 23, Decatur; breaking and coming into a automobile.

—Eric Dwain Fowler, 51, Eva; throwing an object into an occupied automobile.

—Garrick Anthony Gardner, 41, Moulton; second-degree receiving stolen property.

—Sayna Ann Gilbert, 34, Decatur; third-degree forgery.

—Marquez Laroy Goodwin, 34, Decatur; third-degree receiving stolen property.

—April Leighan Hamilton, 42, Decatur; intent to distribute managed substance.

—Otis Junior Hollis, 55, Decatur; second-degree assault.

—Tony Randall Hopkins, 48, Decatur; first-degree theft.

—Tyron Kentrell Hubbard, 31, Moulton; third-degree theft.

—Chasity Nicole Johnson, 32, Hartselle; second-degree selling jail contraband.

—D’Markus Shaqur Jones, 25, Hazel Inexperienced; trafficking in managed substance.

—Cano Elias Diego Juan, 25, Decatur; two counts of second-degree assault.

—Dustin Blake King, 37, Hartselle; second-degree theft.

—Malik Tysheem Lewis, 25, Decatur; two counts of trafficking in managed substance.

—Joshua Martin Hyperlink, 36, Eva; first-degree assault.

—Dana Adams Lynn, 53, Hartselle; third-degree theft.

—Rachel Reed Mares, 40, Huntsville; second-degree theft.

—Susan Annette Mayes, 65, Decatur; third-degree theft.

—Kaysi Wynn McCulloch, 27, Decatur; second-degree selling jail contraband.

—Isaias Miguel-Mateo, 25, Decatur; third-degree theft, try to commit managed substance crime.

—Steven Deshawn Pruitt, 23, Hartselle; second-degree assault.

—Elden Cordera Shelton, 33, Decatur; third-degree housebreaking.

—Justin Bud Shepard, 33, Decatur; first-degree theft.

—Marketa Lavonia Sipp, 37, Abbeville; second-degree home violence.

—Adam Blake Stanley, 38, Decatur; first-degree sexual abuse.

—Michael Andrew Pierre Robust, 39, Decatur; capturing into an unoccupied constructing or automobile.

—Keithan Terrell Swoopes, 40, Decatur; sure individual forbidden from proudly owning firearm.

—Tra’Naisha Qui’Shad Ricole Taylor, 23, Decatur; capturing into an occupied constructing or automobile.

—Donquez Ashareem Thomas, 26, Danville; three counts of breaking and coming into a automobile.