SARASOTA, Fla. — The Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office has slapped handcuffs on 16 men in an undercover operation targeting unlicensed contractors.
The sheriff’s office recently teamed up with the Sarasota County Building Department, the Florida Department of Financial Services Division of Insurance Fraud and the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) for the three-day sting, dubbed “Operation Freelancer VIII.”