BOARDMAN — A local contractor convicted of theft and fraud is now facing similar legal troubles across the state line.

A police report shows that John Bartos III, 43, of Boardman, convicted in 2024 of theft by deception in Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana county courts, was arrested Wednesday in Boardman on a warrant out of Allegheny County, Pa., for the same third-degree felony charge.

Court records from Allegheny County show that the charges were filed from the Northern Regional Police Department, which has jurisdiction in Marshall Township, where the crime allegedly occurred. The charges were filed May 9.

A Boardman police report shows that a FLOCK camera caught Bartos’s license plate as he entered the township from Youngstown and police pulled him over Market Street on the basis of driving without reinstating his license. The report states that Bartos showed police his driving privilege orders, which indicated that he was within his rights to be driving at the time.

But dispatch advised the officer on scene that Allegheny County did want him arrested on the warrant. His children were in the car, and police waited until his wife came to get them before placing him under arrest.

The police report from Northern Regional states that Bartos allegedly tried to swindle a family on Buckthorn Road in Marshall Township, Pa. The family contracted with Bartos, now operating as Pro Windows and Patio Doors, on April 27, when they gave him a deposit of $2,500. Bartos allegedly deposited the check on April 28, and the police report shows they have a record of the cleared check.

On April 30, Bartos’s work crew showed up and said they could not complete the job and the family would receive a refund.

The report states the family provided police with screenshots of messages between them and Bartos, exchanged between April 30 and May 8, in which Bartos repeatedly gave them excuses for why he could not return the deposit to them.

The family told a police detective they would wait until 5 p.m. on May 9, at which time they would like police to file a warrant for Bartos’s arrest if he had not paid them back.

In 2024, Bartos, whose Hubbard-based company was then called Gridiron Windows and Doors, told Judge Maureen Sweeney of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court that personal and business mistakes, including gambling addiction, led to his criminal behavior and that he is a “humbled man.”

Bartos repaid $103,000 to cover all the money he stole from 25 Mahoning County customers for work he promised but never completed.

Bartos was charged in Mahoning County with 27 counts but he pleaded guilty to 18 — 11 counts of felony theft, six counts of theft from a person in a protected class and one count of grand theft. Bartos and the company were accused of accepting payments from customers for work and materials not provided — in one case, $8,000 worth. The charges against the company were dismissed.

Sweeney sentenced Bartos to four years of probation, 100 hours of community service and no prison time.

A Trumbull County Judge sentenced Bartos to five years of basic probation, for his conviction on 10 counts of theft, all fifth-degree felonies. The court found that Bartos contracted with 10 clients for home remodeling services he did not perform, despite receiving down payments of between $1,000 and $7,500. In total, the court said Bartos took $27,460 and ordered him to pay it back in full.

He pleaded guilty in Columbiana County Court of Common Pleas to three indictments charging him with theft and other fifth-degree felonies. He was sentenced to 90 days in jail and three years of probation.

In December 2024, just before Christmas, he was charged with domestic violence, just over two months after his wife filed for divorce.

The Boardman police report states she told police Bartos had taken her phone while she was sleeping, managed to figure out her password to unlock it, and began going through it before entering the room in a rage, waking her up and throwing the phone at her.

She said he yelled and threatened to kill her, then pushed her down into the mattress. She told police that when she was finally able to get up, he grabbed her and threw her against the wall then knocked her to the floor as she tried to leave the room, causing her to hit her head on the floor.

The report states she told police he left the room and was shouting on his phone at his parents, then reentered the room, pressed his fist into her mouth and continued to scream vulgarities at her. He then stopped her from finding her phone so she could call 911, and after finding it himself he took the phone with him and drove to his parents’ house in Hubbard.

Mrs. Bartos said she used her daughter’s phone to call 911.

The report states that Hubbard police made the arrest and transferred Bartos to Boardman’s custody at a location in Hubbard.

Court records show the charges were dismissed a year ago today in Mahoning County Boardman Court, after Mrs. Bartos opted not to pursue charges against him.

Court records indicate that the divorce was finalized just over a year later.