Matthew Morris
LIVINGSTON – Twice-arrested contractor Matthew Morris of Baton Rouge was booked into the Livingston Parish Detention Center on Wednesday afternoon on 37 counts – including six felonies – involving post-flood contractor fraud.
Total bail on 36 of those counts was $653,000, according to Detention Center booking records, but it was later changed to "no bail" for each charge.
Morris, 39, owner of Complete Construction Contractors of Baton Rouge, had been arrested in Ascension Parish and East Baton Rouge Parish on fraud-related charges.
The six felonies include five counts of misapplication of payments and one count of theft of assets of an aged/disabled person.
The other charges include nine counts of residential contractor fraud, nine counts of insurance fraud, seven counts of contracting without a license, five counts of filing or maintaining false public records and one count of being a fugitive.
Morris was arrested Tuesday at his home in Baton Rouge on an East Baton Rouge Parish warrant.
He was first arrested Feb. 10 in Ascension Parish on counts of defrauding more than a dozen flood victims. He posted $635,000 bail and was released.
He also is under investigation in St. John the Baptist Parish.
