Man faces home improvement fraud charges

A 31-year-old Rehoboth Beach man was charged with fraud after taking money for home

construction work he never did, state police said today.

The suspect, Kevin T. Worrell, also was arrested last Thursday when he was found with 14

grams of cocaine, a hypodermic needle and drug paraphernalia while trying to break into a

home in the 550 block of Second Street in Rehoboth Beach, said police Cpl. Bruce Harris.

In the fraud case, Worrell took $2,300 from a 29-year-old Aston, Pa., man to do drywall work

at a home in the 33000 block of Marlin Court in Lewis, Harris said.

Worrell told the victim he would do the work after the check cleared. But the victim became

suspicious because his bank records showed it already had been cashed, Harris said.

He then told the victim to stop payment on the check and wire additional money, Harris said.

Worrell also is accused of shoplifting a can of Red Bull last Thursday from a Rehoboth area

Wawa and becoming disorderly when he was confronted by a clerk.

In the break-in, Worrell was charged with trafficking cocaine and 12 other offenses. He was

given a $2,000 unsecured bond in the fraud case but remained in Sussex Correctional

Institution on $68,500 bond in the drug and burglary case.