"Irish national arrested in Warwick, held by ICE as authorities allege construction fraud "

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U.S. Air Force veteran Don Fife told Target 12 that O’Brien first approached him early last week while his company was working on a neighbor’s home.

His neighbors said they gave O’Brien a $7,000 deposit to work on the front and back of their home.

According to Fife, O’Brien offered to fix the cracking foundation of his home with no money down, until a few days later when he asked for thousands of dollars.

“I wrote a check for $995, and then the next day there was more damage. And now he said … this is a $95,000 project,” Fife recalled.

They eventually settled on an $80,000 job, but Fife said he still felt uneasy.

Warwick police and Homeland Security soon descended on the neighborhood to arrest O’Brien.

Fife said he watched as some of his employees walked to the back of his yard, took off their sweatshirts, left their tools and jumped his back fence to escape from police.

“They went on the tree stump and jumped over the fence and they got away,” he said.

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https://www.wpri.com/target-12/irish-national-arrested-in-warwick-held-by-ice-as-authorities-allege-construction-fraud/