{"id":221559,"date":"2026-04-07T04:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T04:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/221559\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T04:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T04:58:08","slug":"unlicensed-contractor-arrested-after-allegedly-scamming-miami-catholic-school-out-of-220000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/221559\/","title":{"rendered":"Unlicensed contractor arrested after allegedly scamming Miami Catholic school out of $220,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Miami\u2011Dade County man is behind bars after authorities say he stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from a Catholic school for repairs that were never completed.<\/p>\n<p>Nestor Olivares, 50, is charged with grand theft of more than $100,000, organized fraud and operating without a contractor&#8217;s license, according to court records. Investigators allege the theft began in 2024 and involved money paid to repair the roof at St. Kevin&#8217;s Catholic School.<\/p>\n<p>Court documents show the school paid Olivares more than $220,000 beginning last year for materials and labor to fix the roof. However, prosecutors say no work was ever done.<\/p>\n<p>During a bond court hearing Monday, Olivares appeared before a judge and spoke through an interpreter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He doesn&#8217;t have a valid contractor license in the state of Florida or Miami\u2011Dade County,&#8221; Judge Mindy Glazer said during the hearing.<\/p>\n<p>According to investigators, Olivares later tried to negotiate with the school after the work failed to materialize.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Court records state he ultimately promised to issue a full refund by Feb. 26, but the school never received a payment.<\/p>\n<p>After his arrest, Olivares told investigators he was unable to repay the full amount at one time, the documents say.<\/p>\n<p>Olivares remains in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $30,150 bond. As a condition of his release, he will be required to prove any money used to post bond comes from a legitimate source.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Miami\u2011Dade County man is behind bars after authorities say he stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[265,123,125,124,20165],"class_list":["post-221559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-crime","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-scam-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}