Admitted Home Improvement Scam Artist Wastes No Time Getting Back Into Hot Water, Allegedly Pocketing Cash For Another Project He Failed To Complete

In Danville, Pennsylvania, The Daily Item reports:

• One day after pleading guilty to scamming two Montour County couples, a Riverside contractor accepted payment for a job he never completed, a Columbia-Montour judge said [] while sending Wayne Lee Biddinger to jail on a total $150,000 cash bail. Judge Thomas James [...] allowed Biddinger to revoke a Dec. 14 guilty plea for scamming a Narehood Road resident, but denied a similar request in a case involving an elderly Mahoning Township couple.

• On Dec. 15, Biddinger accepted the second of three payments from a Watsontown man for a project he never completed. "This raises it to the level of violation of bail," James said during a 2½-hour hearing. "Look at the record," James said of Biddinger, 54, who has pleaded guilty to theft by services; unauthorized use, forgery, theft by deception; worthless checks and serving one to five years in a state prison for a Milton burglary. Biddinger's adult criminal record extends dates to 1979, with his pleading guilty five times to theft by deception and-or services [...]

For more, see Scam artist jailed (Area man faces trial for thefts by deception).