A Calgary contractor who took money from homeowners and never finished the work has been sent to jail.
Kieron Warren was sentenced to six months in jail and has been fined $60,000.
Warren has also been ordered to pay his victims back the money he took from them.
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The unlicensed contractor took more than $270,000 in deposits from homeowners going back to 2011, but never completed the work.
He plead guilty in 2015 to entering into prepaid contracts with six different homeowners without a licence.
Warren was acquitted on four criminal charges.
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