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AFFIDAVIT: Man hired, paid for job he never started

ROCKINGHAM — A Richmond County man is accused of failing to start — much less complete — work he was hired to do late last month.

According to an affidavit, the alleged victim met with 50-year-old Christopher Todd Greene on Aug. 28 to discuss replacing windows on an Ann Street home when she said she paid him a $500 deposit.

She says Green told her the windows wouldn’t be in until Sept. 3 because of the Labor Day holiday.

She then contacted him on Sept. 4, when Greene allegedly told her he would need all of the money for the 19 windows. The two agreed to meet at a downtown restaurant where Greene was having lunch with a friend and the woman says she gave him a certified check from Hamlet Federal Credit Union for $3,070.

In the affidavit, filed Sept. 18, the woman said she hadn’t had any contact with Greene since giving him the money and he was not answering or returning her phone calls or messages.

Court documents show Greene with addresses in Rockingham and Hamlet.

The magistrate issued a criminal summons for failure to work after paid, which was served by the Hamlet Police Department on Wednesday.

According to Richmond County Jail records, a bondsman surrendered Greene’s bond on a Moore County charge of failing to return a hired motor vehicle valued more than $4,000.

He is being held on a combined $25,000 secured bond: $20,000 for the Richmond County charge; $5,000 for the Moore County Charge.

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He is scheduled to appear in court Oct. 25.

Greene has previous criminal convictions from the mountains to the sea, according to records with the N.C. Department of Public Safety Division of Adult Correction.

In 1988, he was convicted of misdemeanor charges of cheating to deprive of property or services, financial card fraud, reckless driving, operating a vehicle without a license and failing to obey police in Watauga County and felony possession with intent to sell a Schedule II controlled substance in Avery County.

His probation on the fraud and drug charges was revoked in 1989, landing him behind bars for 25 months.

Greene was later convicted in consecutive years of felony charges in New Hanover County: embezzlement (1995) and possession of a Schedule VI controlled substance (1996). He was given a suspended sentence for each.

Eight years went by before his next conviction of felony financial card fraud in Union County (2004). 

Greene’s most recent conviction was for misdemeanor larceny in Richmond County nearly a decade ago (September 2010).

All defendants facing criminal charges are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

 



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