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On February 4, 2025, Robert Stevens approached the victim who is a vulnerable person directly in the victim's front yard. Stevens told the victim that he had extra limestone material on his truck that he needed to use up and therefore, he would pave the victims driveway and road for a steep discount. Both verbally agreed upon $30 a SQUARE yard. Stevens kept pushing the sale without any paper work and the victim said "so, $3,000; right?" before Stevens started the work. Stevens said he had to measure. Without further discussion, Stevens laid the 35 yards of material that was on his truck and then, left to get 80 more yards of material without discussion with the victim or approval from the victim. After Stevens completed the work, he demanded $12,000.00; 4 TIMES the verbally agreed amount! The victim protested saying that he did not have the money and that he did not agree to that price. Stevens said he had to use extra material and demanded the payment saying he had expenses and had to pay his crew. Stevens never received approval to lay more than the verbal agreed price of $3,000 for the 35 SQUARE yards of material on his truck. Stevens continued to bully the victim who is cognitively, physically and speech impaired into paying $10,000 which was the last of the victim's savings. The victim who is an honest person, felt he had no choice but to pay the extorted demand as the work was complete albeit for the extremely inflated price that was not agreed to by the victim. The victim is now bankrupt and suffers from physical illness and distress over this crime. The paving is thin without rebar and I expect that it will crack and break under the weight of the garbage truck. Please see the Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge case 60CV-20-449 C06D12 filed January 15, 2020 in Little Rock, AR against Robert Stevens for using the same verbal and physical bullying tactics to scam elderly and vulnerable people in Arkansas.