The first thing we checked was the CSLB website to see if Elite Paving is licensed, and discovered they are indeed licensed. Mark Young Jr. is listed as the sole owner and the company’s address is in Massachusetts. We found the company’s website and confirmed it had the same phone number as the CSLB license and the side of the truck that we discovered parked in Santee – the same one Zoe said they brought to her house.
We asked Young why there was no written contract for the job, and he told us that in retrospect, he should’ve drafted one. He declined our request for an interview, but it wouldn’t have been the first time a paver named Mark Young was in front of an NBC camera.from WJAR, our sister station in Providence, Rhode Island. It was about a paving company called MTY Paving getting shut down by the state.
Elite Paving is located just 10 miles outside of Providence. Given the owners have the same name, and the physical resemblance, we asked the Mark Young we spoke with if he knew of MTY Paving or had any association with it. He told us no. We later texted him a link to the 2015 news story asking if it was him. We never got a response.But just a few hours after our phone call with Young, a man showed up at Zoe’s door. She said he told her, “Mark said you were making trouble.