JDW Service J D W Took money, never did the work, won't return calls, looks for elderly to scam Beach Park, Illinois

Donald Wagner is a licensed general contractor of JDW services.  My elderly mother wanted to get her small deck painted.  This was towards the end of summer/beginning of fall of 2012.  Donald had done one small job earlier and did a decent job, so we thought we could trust him.  He took half the payment for the deck, and told us he would start the job within the week.  The rest of our communications with him were through the phone.  Due to inclement weather he was unable to start at that time, we understood and we rescheduled. 

After rescheduling he kept putting the job off, and we well the weather didn't get any better.  We decided he should return the $350.00 he took from us.  He went out to advise he would keep the payment and do the work summer of 2013.  After telling him no, we asked for the money back.  Originally he told us he spent the money, and would pay us in two weeks time.  We agreed, and thereafter we contacted him 3 times asking for the money.  Each time he would conveniently have to "call us back" and then blocked our number.  We were unable to get through to him.  Be careful of Donald Wagner and JDW Services.