Church Hill Mason Says Accused Scam Artist Scammed Him From Jail
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Church Hill Mason Says Accused Scam Artist Scammed Him From Jail
Washington County Detention Center
Mugshot of Adam Knight
Church Hill, TN- The owner of a local business says a Tri-Cities contractor and self-proclaimed minister, who is already in jail for scamming people, is at it again. Pounders Masonry Owner Billy Pounders says Adam Knight owes him more than $21,000.
Since June 2008, Knight has remained under court-ordered work release at the Washington County Detention Center. Knight is currently serving 30% or about two years of a six-year jail sentence for writing worthless checks. However, although he spent his nights at the jail for many months, during the day he was allowed to work.
Pounders says that is how Knight tracked him down. Earlier this month, Adam Knight signed a contract agreeing to pay Pounders more than $20,000 in return for his masonry work. Nearly two weeks later, Pounders says that construction project is now on hold while he waits for his first check.
“He had no intentions of praying me,” Pounders said. “He’s done this while he’s in the Washington County jail. He’s running the very same business he was put in jail for in their jail.“
Although Knight has taken advantage of the jail’s work release program for several months, the jail stripped away that privilege this week. The decision came after Bristol, Tennessee, police served a 2008 outstanding warrant on the man Tuesday for contractor fraud.
“(Work release inmates) sign and state that it’s true that they have no pending charges or they have not committed any crimes,” Washington County Sheriff’s Office Maj. Gary Bradley said. “It’s a privilege and once they violate any of those rules, they’ll be back in jail.“
After eight months of work release, Knight is now spending every minute of his day behind bars. In Billy Pounders’ mind, that is where Knight belongs. After all, Pounders says Knight sent him an email Monday, promising to pay the mason $8,500 to $10,000 by the next day. Pounders says Tuesday came and went with no sign of that cash.
“I could just choke him, but you know, unlike him, I really am a Christian,” Pounders said. “If this man changes, he’ll have to do it from a jail cell. He has to be made to change. He’s not going to do it on his own.“
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Knows him all to well. My mother seen a ad in the paper that he put in there. She called him cause I needed some work done on my camper. He comes up and he talks to me and my dad. He looks at my camper and I tell him what I want done. He stands just behind it saying I’ll need to do this and that . He goes in and I tell him to not worry about buying the paneling for it, as my dad has some I could have. He said ok no worries I can put it in. He felt of the walls and was saying yes this one needs it and so on. He sends 2 men to fix my camper, I go back there to see what is going on. And they were putting chip board down. I’m a woman and even I know better than to use chip board in the camper. I call him to say hey this isn’t what i’m paying for. Needless to say they done tore my camper apart and what not. His reply is we can stop if you like. *thinking ok my camper is tore apart what am i suppose to do* as he wasn’t going to give me what I had already paid him. But I paid 800.00 for 3 pieces of chip board, 2 , 2 by 4s and some conkin. He was also putting a roof on my dads house that the men didn’t do right and it has pieces not nailed down good. He didn’t do the windows on my dad house. My dad paid upfront. So yeah scammed me and my dad. I hope he has to serve all his time and has to do tons of community work. He told us too he was a minister… I hate that he did this to so many… I guess i’m lucky it was only 800.00.
Ah, Adam Knight. A name I’ve been trying to forget. He owes us $1,200 and we feel blessed that it’s not more that he owes us. He actually DID complete some work at our house but then took our money for some other work. We know MANY folks who are out tons more money and have cases where he started work and never finished.
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