“We’ve had a few days of rain,” Tammie Corrigan explained Sunday.  “Our road has been graded to [our neighbour’s] house and graded to the back of our garage where it will flood.  We can’t put a trash can on it.  It sinks into the asphalt that is poorly laid.  The weeds are coming up and tearing up the asphalt as we speak.”
Corrigan said a man named “Peter” from Unique Paving & Masonry came to her door on June 10.  He offered to repair her driveway at a discounted rate, but she declined his offer.
Corrigan called him “a pushy guy, very nice, very manipulative.”
A picture of a man, called ‘Peter’, who the police want to speak to about an unwanted paving incident.  (Courtesy: OPP)  
The next morning she arrived home to find a crew working on her driveway.
“We pulled into the road and saw several workers paving our road,” he said.
Since the job was already half done, she said “Peter” told her he would take $500 out of the $7,500 bill.
Corrigan told CTV News in June that she didn’t intend to pay for a job she never wanted.
She also said the company promised to repair her road at no cost, but Corrigan was unable to contact anyone.
Tammie Corrigan’s driveway in Puslinch, Ont.  on July 3, 2022. (Tyler Kelaher/CTV Kitchener)
CTV News reached out to Unique Paving & Masonry after speaking with Corrigan in June.  An unnamed employee said it was a “misunderstanding” and they had a verbal agreement, adding “we don’t just come in and do this randomly.”  The company did not respond to further requests for an interview or statement on the matter.
Ontario Provincial Police are also trying to speak with “Peter.”
On Friday, they posted his photo on Twitter in the hope that someone could help identify him.
“We believe this may be targeted fraud and are investigating it as a criminal matter at this time,” said Const.  Jacob Unger.
The OPP were also unable to reach anyone at Unique Paving & Masonry.
They said that, if convicted, it would be a very unique form of fraud because of the amount of work involved, how it can affect a home and the price.
“This is not a $500 or $1,000 scam,” said Const.  Unger.  “They were asking $7,500.”
“I feel angrier than I originally did,” Corrigan said.  “I’ve heard from a lot of people that this was happening to them too.”
Now she will have to pay out of pocket to repair her driveway.
“[At] at the end of the day, it costs us money,” Corrigan said.  “I can guarantee that we will not be able to find this crew to press criminal charges.”
Anyone who can recognize “Peter” or had a similar experience is asked to contact the Wellington County OPP.