An Arizona contractor has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for fraudulent roof repairs at Phoenix area mobile homes parks, according to Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich.

A judge also ordered William Parks to pay $136,815 in restitution to 10 victims as part of a plea agreement. 

The Attorney General’s Office prosecuted the case after joint investigations by the Arizona Registrar of Contractors and the Phoenix and Mesa police departments.

“Parks is a con-artist who deserves to spend the next 10 years behind bars reflecting on how he preyed on vulnerable seniors in retirement communities,” Brnovich said. 

Jeff Fleetham, Arizona Registrar of Contractors director, said Parks is facing the consequences of willfully violating Arizona’s laws.

From November 2013 through October 2015, Parks made repeated visits to age-restricted mobile home parks throughout the Phoenix area. 

He approached elderly victims at their homes unsolicited and misrepresented the need for repair work, often to the roof.  Parks performed little to no work, and what work was performed, was later verified by an inspector to be either incorrect or unnecessary, according to the Attorney General’s Office. 

At one point, Parks was listed as one of the Arizona Registrar of Contractors’ Ten Most Wanted Contractors.

Parks charged one victim almost four times the value of her mobile home for work that was never done.  

Assistant Attorney General Michael Powell prosecuted this case.