Thursday, July 24, 2025 6:58PM
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A contractor accused of bilking customers out of hundreds of thousands of dollars is again off the hook.
After years of waiting to go to trial, the case against contractor Salim Zantout was just dismissed this on Wednesday by the Harris County District Attorney’s Office.
Court records show that over the past 30 years, Zanhout has been sued several times in civil court and has a criminal record. But he’s always managed to still work as a contractor.
Then in 2023, he was charged with theft of over $150,000 to $300,000. ABC13 covered that case. And at the time, Lorena Reyes was hopeful she would get justice.
“I was ready to go to court,” she told us from her sparse apartment. Reyes now spends a lot of time on the computer sharing her latest findings of Zantout on a dedicated Facebook page. She started the page after she says Zantout pretended to date her and then convinced her to spend her life savings.
