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The proprietor of a now shut Utah County organization that made leisure trailers is staying accused of failing to produce trailers or refunds to 39 consumers. (Shutterstock)
SPRINGVILLE — The proprietor of a Utah County recreation trailer business enterprise now charged with fraudulent activity in one scenario now faces an supplemental demand for failing to supply trailers or refunds to additional than a few dozen customers, according to courtroom records.
Benjamin Ashley Grimes, 48, of Springville, was billed Thursday in 4th District Courtroom by the Utah Legal professional General’s Place of work with partaking in a pattern of illegal activity, a second-diploma felony.
Grimes was the proprietor of Moby1 Expedition Trailers LLC which shut its doorways in 2018 and submitted for personal bankruptcy. In 2019, Grimes was billed with pocketing insurance money and offering a trailer he was intended to repair service for a buyer, according to courtroom paperwork. The future court listening to in that circumstance was scheduled for Aug. 3.
In accordance to the most up-to-date rates, the Utah Division of Client Protection received 40 problems from prospects who requested trailers from Moby1 and paid much more than $888,000 in deposits from April 2015 to December 2018. All those customers claimed that Moby1 failed to “provide trailers, satisfy deadlines or honor refund requests underneath the contract” and by the time the small business declared personal bankruptcy it “experienced not sent a trailer or designed a refund of deposit to 39 of the complainants,” in accordance to charging documents.
Moby1 sold personalized-designed recreational trailers and claimed each a single would consider up to a 12 months to build, the fees state. Clients experienced the right to cancel the contract if building took for a longer time than 18 months.
“Based mostly on my investigation, I think a sample of misrepresentation and content omissions emerges with respect to existing clients who had been offered phony information about the position of their trailers and new consumers currently being advised about the availability of a trailer on the timeframe presented to them,” the guide investigator wrote in charging paperwork.