SANFORD, Fla. – Luz Lenzi came home to a nightmare — her driveway was gone.
Lenzi is selling her Sanford home to fund her retirement. Back in February, she had someone repair a crack in her driveway. Then, weeks later, she got a call from a colleague with alarming news.
“She said, ‘Luzi, there is a mountain in front of your house and your driveway is gone,’” Lenzi recalled.
A second crew had shown up, ripped out the entire driveway, and left behind piles of gravel. The concrete was gone.
“Oh my God, what happened - that’s what I did,” Lenzi said, describing the moment she saw the damage.
“It’s awful,” she said. “It’s a pile of junk.”
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Lenzi was clear: she never authorized the work.
“I didn’t hire them. I didn’t need to have my driveway redone,” she said.
Lenzi filed a police report. Officers tracked down the crew after workers left a business card with a neighbor.
News 6 called the company. The man who answered said a contractor had hired him to do the job - and that the contractor told him to stop working after a check bounced.
We then called the contractor. The woman who answered said the company is cooperating with police and that the matter is under a pending investigation.
News 6 is not naming the contractor because law enforcement has not confirmed whether the company is a victim in the case.
According to the Sanford Police Department, “the case remains under investigation as it involves a number of contracts and financial transactions,” and that “investigations of this nature normally take longer to investigate due to their nature and having to wait an extended time to receive information from companies.”
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It remains unclear who hired the contractor to work on Lenzi’s driveway in the first place.
In the meantime, Lenzi is left to fix her driveway - again. The repairs are expected to cost around $5,000.
She has a message for those responsible.
“All I want you to do is to repair what you broke,” Lenzi said.