Baton Rouge contractor arrested again, accused of selling a $78,000 foundation repair the house didn't need

The homeowner went to deputies on Oct. 27, WBRZ reported. He told them he had hired the contractor, who did business as Compton Builders, for repairs and improvements, and was told the foundation needed fixing because of trouble with the brickwork. A licensed contractor he consulted later said the brickwork and the foundation were unrelated. The homeowner alleges the condition of his house was misrepresented to win the job.

Arrest records cited by WBRZ say the contractor presented himself as licensed, claimed the repairs needed no permits and started work with no signed contract and no formal estimate. He later produced paperwork listing $78,000 owed, an amount that breaks Louisiana's home improvement licensing rules, according to the report. He was booked Thursday on a count of residential contractor fraud. The charge is an allegation; he has not been convicted.

It is his second arrest on that charge. Deputies first arrested him on June 23 after the Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors received several complaints in May that he was cheating elderly homeowners. Detectives found he lacked a license for jobs above $50,000, and that Compton Builders' home improvement license had been suspended in August 2025, WBRZ reported. The board also alleges he put the company's license under his mother's name without asking her. He previously served federal prison time for tax evasion connected to an Arizona asphalt paving business he ran.

The board had already acted against the company. In February 2025 it found Compton Builders LLC in violation for working without a state contractor's license on a $97,300 job in Plaquemine and assessed the top fine and $1,000 for administrative costs, according to a board agenda. The company asked for a rehearing, set for July 2025; the agenda does not show the outcome.