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Police Update on New Canaan Contractor’s Arrest: Charges Involve Not One But Three Darien Homes

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Darien police say a New Canaan contractor charged with failing to return customers’ money after failing to complete home renovations was actually doing this to three separate customers in Darien, not the one initially described. In addition to not paying back the owners of a Mansfield Avenue house, Thomas Faucher, 45, had also stopped work on houses on Pembroke Road and Christie Hill Road and not returned money to customers, police said on Thursday. (Darienite.com received an email from a town resident who said the initial article was incomplete. A Darien police spokesman was asked about that and provided further information on incidents involving owners of two other houses in town.)

This article is based on Darien police accounts that include accusations not proven in court. Pembroke Road
A client contacted Faucher in November 2018 to get work done on the Pembroke Road home and paid the contractor a total of $155,000 on four dates between Dec.

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Police: New Canaan Contractor Paid $650,000, But Didn’t Do All the Work, Didn’t Return Any Money

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Mansfield Avenue homeowners had to arrange to have the work on their house completed after they paid $650,000 to a New Canaan contractor who accepted the money, stopped doing the work, didn’t pay subcontractors and wouldn’t give  a refund, police said. This story has been updated. Please see: Police Update on New Canaan Contractor’s Arrest: Charges Involve Not One but Three Darien Homes (Thursday, June 13)

Darien police described what happened with this account, including accusations not proven in court:

Thomas Faucher, 45, was hired in May 2018 to do renovation work on the Mansfield Avenue house, but the work began to slow down in October. Faucher told the owners he needed more money for work to continue. The owners paid him more money, which put the total payments at $650,000.