The snapping shut of handcuffs on the wrists of convicted home improvement contractor Dennis M. Bartel echoed inside a near-empty courtroom on Tuesday afternoon. But miles away, at homes in Easton ...

Eleven remaining charges against convicted home improvement contractor Dennis M. Bartel of Taunton are scheduled to be tried at courts in Brockton and New Bedford later this year. Bartel ...

Bartel was indicted in April 2006 on 22 charges of larceny of more than $250. Each charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison or a $25,000 fine. Bartel waived his right to a jury trial.

Declaring that Dennis M. Bartel “engaged in a scheme wrapped around bundles of lies,” Superior Court Judge Robert J. Kane on Dec. 6 sentenced the former home improvement contractor to 48 ...

Dennis M. Bartel was led out of the first-floor courtroom in handcuffs Thursday after pleading guilty to swindling six people out of more than $140,000 in a home contracting scheme. Watching a few ...

Bartel, 39, of 133 Williams St., Taunton, will receive credit for time served since his conviction on Oct. 23 on seven charges of larceny by false pretense from customers of his former business ...