Police warn residents about paving scam

NEW BRITIAN, CT (WFSB) -

The Bristol Police Department is warning residents a paving company that recently lost its license is continuing to try and solicit customers.

Residents are being told to avoid using the services of a New Britain-based company called Hot Top Paving. Police said employees of the company have been going door to door asking for work and have targeted the elderly.

Bristol resident Phyliss Basso said she paid Hot Top Paving owner Brian Crylo more than $6,000 to pave her driveway, and she said he did a bad job. After she contacted the Department of Consumer Protection, she found out there were a number of complaints against Hot Top Paving.

Dave Neff, of Bristol, said Crylo asked if he could pave his driveway and Neff asked for an estimate. When he went inside to talk to his wife, he heard noises and found someone digging up his driveway.

"This guy is over here chiseling the driveway, I said 'What are you doing, I didn't have you do any work, what are you doing to my driveway?'" Neff said.

Crylo, 28, has a long criminal history and has been convicted on at least 15 charges, including larceny and breach of peace. He has been investigated for more than a year and owes consumer protection $30,000, money they paid to homeowners to fix Crylo's mistakes.

According to police, the Hot Top Paving employees are promising to work, taking money for the proposed work and then never returning to complete the project, and officials with the Department of Consumer Protection said the company no longer has a license to do business in the state.

"If he ever comes to your door, he's a young guy and he's looking to get work done, tell him you don't want any work done [and] tell him, 'See ya later,'" Neff added.

He is known to drive an "older model Chevrolet pickup truck, color black with yellow writing 'Hot Top Paving' on the side," police said.

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