(6-13-23) Jeff Collingsworth (48) St. Marys was sentenced to 18 months in prison and ordered to pay more than $60,000 in restitution to his victims in Logan County Common Pleas Court last week.

Collingsworth pleaded guilty to two counts of grand theft and one count of theft involving his contracting business, “J&R Roofing and Remodeling,” in late March.

Collingsworth scammed numerous customers out of more than $375,000 in Adams County, Indiana and Monroe County, Michigan as well as Allen, Auglaize, Logan, Mercer and Shelby counties.

Collingsworth is currently serving prison sentences from Auglaize and Mercer counties, where he also has a conviction for Medicaid fraud.

He appeared by video from prison for the Logan County sentencing. Collingsworth will spend approximately 10 years in prison serving his terms consecutively.

The Logan County offenses happened between September and December of 2021. Sheriff’s deputies were contacted by residents who paid Collingsworth for labor along with materials and supplies for projects which were not completed.

Collingsworth has an extensive criminal record, as he was on supervision from Auglaize County at the time of the offenses. In 2006, he was convicted of multiple counts of theft by deception and telecommunications fraud and still owes almost $40,000 in fines, costs and restitution in that case. He also has a prior misdemeanor theft conviction from Logan County in 2016 for stealing generators from a Bellefontaine business, with unpaid restitution.

The Ohio Attorney General’s Consumer Protection Section offers a free database for property owners to research consumer complaints against Ohio contractors as due diligence before paying for a project at www.ohioprotects.org.