A Vancouver contractor who admitted to working without a license or insurance to cover injured workers was ordered to pay the state more than $72,000, according to a news release from the Department of Labor & Industries.
Salvador Rodriguez, 45, pleaded guilty last week in Clark County Superior Court to three counts of unregistered contracting and a felony count of doing business without workers’ compensation insurance. Rodriguez also goes by the name Salvador Rodriguez Alvarez.
The Washington Attorney General’s office prosecuted the case.
Judge Scott Collier ordered Rodriguez to serve 30 days of work release for the workers’ compensation offense. He also sentenced him to a year in jail for the unregistered contracting charge. However, Judge Collier suspended the jail sentence on the condition Rodriguez doesn’t break any laws for two years and pays restitution to the state and his contracting victims, the news release said.
Rodriguez was charged with the offenses following a Department of Labor & Industries investigation and numerous encounters between him and inspectors. His company, Chava Paving, surfaced driveways and handled other construction work in Clark County from September 2012 to June 2014. Several customers complained of shoddy or incomplete work, according to the news release.
