SALT LAKE CITY — It’s a tale as old as time, or at least since contractors came on the scene.

FOX 13 Investigators first met Mark Kilpatrick more than two years ago when he was $20,000 in the red. He contacted us about a contractor named Paul Yantis, whom he had hired to makeover his yard, but instead, Yantis made off with Kilpatrick's money without finishing the job.

In 2024, Yantis pleaded guilty via a plea agreement to felony grand theft in Bonneville County, Idaho. After passing an in-house rehabilitation program, he was released after 18 months and is now out on probation.

Jail record

But if you listen to Kilpatrick’s experience with Yantis, you’ll hear that it mimics many others who have had to deal with a contract gone wrong.

“We signed it all, got it all done, and he’s promisi

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