A Florida contractor has been arrested after allegedly threatening a family while demanding $100,000 over a landscaping job he never finished. The dispute started after Hurricane Ian in 2022, but police say things took a different turn when the contractor came back years later looking for his money.
According to WINK News, the Naples Police Department identified the suspect as 27-year-old Christopher Cueva. Investigators say he resumed contact with the family in September 2026, demanding payment through phone calls, text messages, and social media. The family hired Cueva in the autumn of 2022 to repair landscaping damaged by Hurricane Ian, which left properties across Southwest Florida in need of repairs. But investigators say Cueva left the job unfinished and moved to Florida’s East Coast to take on other contracting work.
