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TYLER, Texas (KETK) \u2014 According to our news partner KETK, a man was arrested on Wednesday after allegedly tricking an elderly Tyler woman into believing she needed more than $60,000 worth of roof repairs. According to an arrest affidavit from the Smith County Sheriff\u2019s Office, on March 21 deputies received a report of an elderly woman who had been lied to and tricked by suspects, Levy Lee and his accomplice, about a roof repair that was not needed at her home in Tyler.<\/p>\n
The report said that the victim ended up giving Lee six checks and $14,000 in cash totaling $64,000 for the work they told her needed to be done. The victim had a contractor come out to her house and inspect the \u201cdamages\u201d that Lee and his accomplice said the roof had.<\/p>\n
The contractor told her Lee had lied to her, all Lee and the accomplice did was paint roofing tiles around an alleged \u201crotted chimney flute.\u201d<\/p>\n
The victim met Lee and his accomplice when they came up to her house and told her that her roof was \u201cunstable\u201d and that when they get on the roof and jumped, they would \u201csink a little,\u201d showing her where a soft spot was. The victim said that this \u201cscared her.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cThe contractor went inside the attic, walked on the roof and did not observe any of the issues Lee and [his accomplice] told her she had,\u201d the affidavit said. \u201cLee and [his accomplice] did not do anything new, all they did was make a hole in the roof and patch it up.\u201d<\/p>\n
The affidavit said the contractor observed Lee and his accomplice used $7 worth of material inside the attic, including two-by-fours and plywood. With $64,000, people would be able to get four new roofs, according to the contractor.<\/p>\n
The elderly woman\u2019s previous roofer advised that when he repaired her roof two years ago, he did not see any of the \u201cissues\u201d Lee and his accomplice told her she had.<\/p>\n
The document said that deputies could clearly see the \u201cwork\u201d Lee and his accomplice performed on her roof that appeared to be damaged, sunk in and poorly covered with roofing tiles.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe [accomplice] did all the talking and Lee did not say anything at all,\u201d the victim said. \u201cThe [accomplice] insisted the checks to be made out to Lee because he was the financial guy.\u201d Lee was arrested for elderly financial abuse and is being held in the Smith County Jail while his accomplice is not in jail booking at this time.<\/p>\n
His accomplice has not been arrested. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TYLER, Texas (KETK) \u2014 According to our news partner KETK, a man was arrested on Wednesday after allegedly tricking an elderly Tyler woman into believing she needed more than $60,000 worth of roof repairs. According to an arrest affidavit from the Smith County Sheriff\u2019s Office, on March 21 deputies received a report of an elderly … Continue reading Elderly woman scammed into paying $64,000 for fake roof repairs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1404451,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/04\/2025-04-11_211446-199x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1404448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-09 19:50:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/04\/2025-04-11_211446-199x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1404448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1404452,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404448\/revisions\/1404452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1404451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1404448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1404448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1404448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}