(Stillwater, Okla.) — An arrest warrant has been issued for an Arkansas man — doing business as J Boys Blacktop — who is accused of obtaining money by false pretense from a 79-year-old Glencoe woman in a case investigated by the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Public Protection Unit.
If convicted, Allen Jeffery, 51, of Pine Bluff, AR, who has not yet been arrested, could be given as much as a 10-year prison term and a $5,000 fine, according to the felony charge filed by Oklahoma Asst. Atty. Gen. Ethan A. Shaner in Payne County last week.
The elderly woman reported in March “a man came to her door and advised her that he had some leftover asphalt from a job and asked if she would like to have it poured near her garage,” AG’s Agent Elizabeth Fullbright wrote in an affidavit filed last week.
The woman said “she agreed to this with the understanding that the final product would be flat blacktop,” the affidavit alleged.
“The man left and returned approximately one hour later with several men and several trucks and began working on her gravel driveway,” the woman said, according to the affidavit.
The elderly woman said “she asked the man several times how much the work would cost and that he stated ‘very little,"” the affidavit alleged.
She said “the men covered far more area than she originally agreed to and then demanded that she pay them $8,796.20,” the affidavit alleged.
She said “she refused to pay that price and after some conversation the man told her he would accept $8,000,” the affidavit alleged.
She said “the man identified himself as Allen Jeffery and that she wrote a check payable to Allen Jeffery in the amount of $8,000,” the affidavit alleged.
She said that Jeffery gave her a receipt that “shows the name J Boys Blacktop at the top of the page and bears what appears to be the signature of Allen Jeffery at the bottom,” the affidavit alleged.
“The check was later cashed at (the woman’s) bank in Pawnee by a man identifying himself as Allen Jeffery,” the affidavit alleged. The woman “stated that after the men left, she inspected the work and realized that it was not firm blacktop as she was promised.
“She stated that it appeared that a mixture of oil and tar was poured over her existing gravel and then left that way,” the affidavit alleged.
In September, the AG’s agent visited the Glencoe woman at her home and “observed the area that she stated J Boys worked on,” the affidavit said.
“I observed the gravel to be a dark shade of gray and to be loose. It in no way resembled blacktop,” the agent wrote in her affidavit.
When the elderly woman was shown a photo lineup provided by the Pine Bluff, AR, police department, she immediately identified Jeffery “as the man who had come to her door and to whom she had written the check,” the affidavit alleged.
She provided the agent with a copy of the check she wrote “and I observed that the signature on the back of the check appears to be that of Allen Jeffery and is similar to the signature on the receipt,” given to the woman by Jeffery, the affidavit alleged.
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