Thursday, September 29, 2011

Empire Homes owner arrested - The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area:

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According to Lt. Brad Shirley of the Grahaj Police Department, DeWeese got into a disputew in Elon on Saturdagy with a subcontractor overunpaid bills. Elon police were and when officers ran a records found that there was an arrestf warrant out for DeWeessein Graham. Graham officers were called, and they arrested DeWeese for felony obtaining monehy byfalse pretenses. Shirley said his office begamn investigating DeWeese in March over allegationds that heaccepted $25,000 from a customerd to build a home, but that work never begamn before his company, Empire Homees in Graham, shut down. Shirleyy said the warrant was issuedin May.
Shirleg said his first court appearances was scheduledfor Tuesday, but did not have any other information on the hearing. DeWeese could not be immediatel y reachedfor comment. DeWeese closed his six-year-olrd home building company earlier this spring as it faced millionws of dollars in liens and lawsuits forunpaisd bills. Several of the company’sx lots have been taken back by and recently, a trio of investoras bought Empire’s 23,000-square-foot headquarters for $854,437 in a foreclosure auction.

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