The Warren County grand jury indicts Jason Smith, the former owner of the fledgling ABA basketball team, the Kentucky Mavericks.

Daniel Kemp has details on the man who owes tens of thousands to area businesses.

"I received a phone call from Jason Smith asking for work to be done on a website for the Kentucky Mavericks," said John Wilkins, owner of Global Live.

"I had a feeling from the get-go that things just weren't right when we stepped in there," added Kevin Andrews, with Executive Public Relations.

"Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought it would've turned into this," said Austin Blair, co-owner of Allied Media.

"It wasn't just someone at that point not wanting to pay a bill--at that point, it was someone breaking the law," explained Joe McKinney, co-owner of Allied Media.

Four owners from three different businesses--just a few of the companies who say they were swindled out of money from Jason Smith.

"The invoice came to $1,000, which they knew before we actually did the job--and pretty much we never received any sort of payment," assured Blair, on work completed in July.

Now, Smith faces criminal charges for allegedly writing more than $110,000 worth of bad checks.

"The Warren County grand jury this afternoon returned a six-count indictment against Jason Smith. The counts were theft by deception over $300 for six individual transactions," explained Warren County Commonwealth Attorney Chris Cohron.

If convicted, Smith could see a maximum of 20 years in prison for his actions--just in Warren County.

On top of that, he'll repay every business he left hanging.

"Any type of resolution of this case will include Mr. Smith having to pay restitution unless he is acquitted by a jury that does not find him financially responsible for the offenses," Cohron added.

But those companies say he is responsible, and they hope the right actions are taken.

"We're just making sure that this doesn't happen to anyone else in the state or the country. We're taking whatever action necessary to stop him from doing this to other people," Andrews said.

"Best case scenario is he'll be put behind bars and won't be able to do this to other businesses in the future," Blair said.

Commonwealth Attorney Chris Cohron says he expects Smith to be in front of Warren Circuit Court in the next two to three weeks where he'll either plead guilty, or exercise his right of trial by jury.

Cohron adds there's also an open investigation into other potential allegations against Smith in other jurisdictions.