LINCOLN, CA – “Judge Ralphs sentenced Alan Richard Mann, 51, to two years of formal probation and ordered him to serve 180 days in jail.
Mann was also ordered to pay nearly $25,000 in restitution to the homeowners for unauthorized purchases and the cost of redoing the project.
In addition, he must stay away from the homeowners and have no contact with them. The court further prohibited Mann from engaging in contracting work without a valid contractor’s license and workers’ compensation insurance.
The sentence follows Mann’s earlier guilty plea on Sept. 15, 2025, to a felony violation of Penal Code section 530.5 for using another person’s personal identifying information, and to a misdemeanor violation of Labor Code section 3700.5 for employing workers without securing workers’ compensation insurance.
Mann had been arrested on a $20,000 warrant prior to entering his plea.
The case stemmed from a May 2022 home improvement project in South Lake Tahoe.
Mann entered into a contract with the homeowners to remodel a bathroom in their home. The project required a state contractor’s license, which Mann did not have. He also requested and received a down payment that exceeded what is allowed by law and employed two workers on the project without maintaining the legally required workers’ compensation insurance to protect them.
The homeowners provided Mann with their credit card to purchase materials for the remodel.
Instead, he used the card to make more than $2,000 in personal purchases and charged approximately $8,000 for materials that were never used on the home.
The work performed was of such poor quality that the homeowners terminated him, and most of the project had to be redone.”
