CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - A Cuyahoga County grand jury has returned an indictment charging a 51-year-old Avon man in connection with two schemes that totaled nearly $3 million beginning in July 2021.

According to the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office, starting in 2021, Jeffrey Crawford, owner of Cleveland Custom Homes, engaged in transactions with clients to build three homes in Cuyahoga County and Lorain County. The homes were valued at $1.3 million, $650,000 and $600,000.

The home loans for the building process required Crawford to sign and submit documentation to the banks, confirming the completion of the phases of work and that the contractors had been paid. Before the banks released the next portion of the loan to Jeffrey Crawford and Cleveland Custom Homes, this documentation had

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