Police have arrested a man accused of taking money to renovate a kitchen in a Milford home, then not following through on it.
Police said they received a complaint from a resident of Hauser Street in Milford who reported signing a contract with Timothy Kovalsky, 35, of Shelton, in December and giving him a partial payment of $2,886.87, but he never finished the work.
Kovalsky went by the company name ”Exquisite Remodeling,” according to police, and the victims tried to get their money back when he failed to do the work, but they were not able to.
When police checked with the department of Consumer Protection, they found Kovalsky’s home improvement contractor’s certificate expired in 2012 and there was no record of a certificate for the business name.
Kovalsky was arrested and charged with performing home improvement without a valid certificate, failure to refund home improvement payment and larceny in the third degree.
While he was in police custody, a computer check revealed that Kovalsky had an outstanding warrant for an arrest from state police, which accuses him of failing to appear in court for motor vehicle offenses in December 2014, so he was also charged with second-degree failure to appear in court.
Bond was set at $1,000 and he is due in court on May 19.
