Convicted Sex Offender Operates Oklahoma City Mobile Mechanic Business — Craig H. Bondy of C&J Mobile Mechanic

Editor's note — updated August 17, 2026

This article was originally published on May 13, 2026. Two Oklahoma County court cases have developed since then, and this article has been updated to reflect them.

Any section or passage below marked UPDATE — AUGUST 17, 2026 or UPDATE — AUGUST 30, 2026 was added after original publication and was not part of the story as first reported in May 2026. The events described in those passages took place between June and August 2026.

Everything else stands as originally published.

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK — A mobile mechanic does not work behind a counter. They stand in your driveway. They walk into your garage. They are alone on your property while you are inside the house — sometimes for hours, sometimes during after-school hours when children are home. The job has built into it a level of access that almost no other service trade requires.

That is the context in which Oklahoma residents need to know about Craig Henry Bondy Jr., owner-operator of C&J Mobile Mechanic & Auto Repair of Oklahoma City. The Oklahoma County court record is unambiguous: a jury convicted Bondy of two felony sex offenses against a child, and he lost every appeal he filed. For years afterward, his business kept sending mechanics into Oklahoma City driveways and garages — and as the August 2026 updates below document, it kept operating even while the State of Oklahoma was in court winning an order to shut it down. A judge has now signed that order.

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The Business

C&J started as a mobile-only operation and over time added a fixed location at 1801 S. Jordan Ave, Oklahoma City, OK 73129, while continuing to dispatch mobile service. Bondy markets it as the "top rated mobile automotive service provider" in the Oklahoma City metro and frequently cites his Google review count of 200+ as proof of customer satisfaction.

The same operator also runs a second brand at the same address — C&J Performance & Automotive — pitched as the budget-build and restoration side of the operation. A corporate entity, C & J Enterprises, Inc., appears in Better Business Bureau records tied to the same operation.

The contact details are public:

• Address: 1801 S. Jordan Ave, Oklahoma City, OK 73129
• Phone: (405) 305-2184
• Owner-operator: Craig Henry Bondy Jr.

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The Court Record

This is not a rumor. This is not an internet allegation. This is the Oklahoma County District Court's own docket.

State of Oklahoma v. Bondy, Craig Henry Jr. — Case Number CF-1996-368.

Filed January 19, 1996. Six counts charged, all stemming from an offense date of September 30, 1991. Jury trial held February 10–14, 1997, before Judge William R. Burkett. Verdict, February 14, 1997:

• Counts 1, 2, 3: Rape in the First Degree by Instrumentation — acquitted.
• Count 4: Indecent or Lewd Acts with a Child Under 16 (21 O.S. § 1123) — CONVICTED. 15 years.
• Count 5: Indecent or Lewd Acts with a Child Under 16 — CONVICTED. 15 years.
• Count 6: Indecent Exposure — acquitted.

A jury of twelve people, after a five-day trial, found Craig Henry Bondy Jr. guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of two separate felony sex offenses against a child and recommended a fifteen-year sentence on each count.

He appealed. Three times. He lost each one.

• F-1997-236 — Direct appeal to the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals. Affirmed June 5, 1998. Mandate issued June 26, 1998.
• PC-1999-1180 — Application for Post-Conviction Relief. Denied at the trial level (Judge Jerry D. Bass, July 30, 1999). Affirmed on appeal November 4, 1999.
• MA-1999-1080 — Petition for Writ of Mandamus on the same case. Denied August 27, 1999.

An Amended Judgment & Sentence was entered in the case on March 21, 2002. The conviction has never been vacated. The court record stands today exactly as the jury delivered it in 1997.

This is the operator who comes to your house.

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Why a Conviction Like This Matters for a Mobile Mechanic Specifically

Even with a fixed shop address, the C&J operation continues to dispatch mobile mechanics to customer driveways, side yards, and garages. The model, by its nature, requires:

• Access to private residential property during mobile calls
• Time spent unsupervised while customers go inside, attend to children, or take work calls
• Repeat scheduling that builds familiarity faster than most homeowners ever do background research
• Proximity to families during after-school hours, weekends, and other times children are home

A bay mechanic at a strip-mall shop works on cameras, surrounded by coworkers, in a commercial zone. A mobile mechanic pulling into your driveway is one person, alone, on your property, often with nobody else around. The two jobs are not the same job.

For an operator with two felony convictions for sex crimes against a child, the structure of the mobile-mechanic model is a problem in a way it never could be for a fixed shop.

A criminal record is not a guess. It is not a rumor. It is the considered finding of a jury after a five-day trial, twice tested on appeal, never disturbed. Customers — especially parents — have an unambiguous right to know it before they hand over their keys and turn their backs.

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The "Ben Calevah" Defender — Almost Certainly Bondy Himself

In the wake of prior coverage, a long message arrived at Ethical Mechanic from an account using the name Ben Calevah, email bnclvh@gmail.com. A few facts about that name:

• The email handle bnclvh is the name "Ben Calevah" with the vowels removed — a cipher style consistent with someone constructing a persona, not someone using a real account.
• A Facebook page in the name "Ben Calevah" exists publicly and lists itself as the owner of C&J Mobile Mechanic Service.
• A TikTok account at @bencalevah has existed since at least 2023 and describes its operator as "a gearhead, chess and pool player, business owner, dog owner, Libertarian, and Jew" — descriptors compatible with Bondy's demographic profile.
• No verifiable separate person by the name Ben Calevah has been found in any Oklahoma court record, business filing, news source, or social search.

Ethical Mechanic's working position: Ben Calevah is an alias for Craig Henry Bondy Jr.

A few lines from that message — read knowing they were written by the man defending his own conviction:

"none of this good matters because of something that allegedly happened 25 years ago"

A two-count jury conviction for sex offenses against a child, affirmed three times on appeal, described in his own words as "something that allegedly happened." That is the operator's own framing of the case.

"He has no family. His customers are his family."

A man with no family describing his customer base — which, in the mobile-mechanic model, includes children — as his family.

"his 5 employees (a female tech, a Dominican tech, a Puerto Rican mechanic, two LGBTQ apprentices that he pays to learn ...)"

The defense leans on listing employees by gender, ethnicity, and sexual orientation — as if those categories themselves are credentials.

"One last fact. Nobody else in the shop is allowed to clean the toilet but him."

This is the closing line of the message. Offered, with no apparent irony, as a final argument for Bondy's character.

We are publishing these excerpts as on-the-record correspondence sent to a consumer-protection publication. We are not publishing the full message and we are not engaging with its other claims about the underlying case. The court record is the record. A jury already ruled.

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Customer Complaints, BBB Record, and a Pending Negligence Lawsuit

The criminal record is where the file starts, not where it ends. The rest of it is money — customer money taken and not returned, work billed and disputed, and a business that answers to nobody until a court makes it.

Better Business Bureau. C&J Mobile Mechanics and Automotive Repairs is not BBB accredited and carries a C+ rating, with a documented failure to respond to a formal complaint filed against the business. A related profile under C & J Enterprises, Inc. ties the same operation to a corporate entity on file.

An 88-year-old man and a 1953 Chevy. A complaint posted in January 2024 by reviewer Connie Northcott alleges that Bondy took $1,000 from her 88-year-old father for work on a 1953 Chevy, took possession of the vehicle the prior June, and as of the complaint had returned neither the money nor the car. The complaint accuses Bondy of taking advantage of the elderly.

A brake-job safety incident. A separate customer report describes a brake service after which three lug nuts on the driver-side wheel and two on the passenger-side wheel were "barely finger tight." The customer discovered the issue when their steering wheel kept shaking and they took the car to a tire shop. Loose lug nuts at highway speed can cause a wheel separation — a near-miss for a fatality-class incident.

A pending negligence lawsuit he spent four months avoiding — and is now fighting with two lawyers. Case CJ-2026-1382 — Wesley Early v. Craig Bondy — is an open auto-negligence suit filed in Oklahoma County District Court on February 23, 2026, before Judge Amy Palumbo.

The Petition is specific. On or about November 21, 2025, Wesley Early and Craig Bondy were both traveling northbound on North Walker Avenue near Northwest 12th Street in Oklahoma City. The Petition alleges that Bondy "negligently failed to keep attention to the roadway causing a collision with the vehicle driven by Plaintiff," and that Early sustained "pain, suffering, mental anguish, medical expenses, wage loss, permanent disabling injuries, property damage." He seeks judgment in excess of $75,000.00. Plaintiff's counsel is Greg S. Mitchell of Babbit, Mitchell & Ogle, P.L.L.C.

When Plaintiff's counsel tried to serve Bondy, the court-licensed process server (Brandon Snider LLC, ABL # PSS-2025-41) returned a Proof of Service on April 1, 2026, marking the defendant "Not Found" and writing the following under penalty of perjury:

"Craig Bondy Avoiding Service and never home at 2908 SE 57th St, OKC, OK"

Plaintiff's counsel then filed a Motion to Serve by Publication on April 8, 2026, stating simply: "That service has been attempted on the Defendant" and "No new address can be obtained through a diligent search on the Internet." The court granted it on April 21, 2026.

The summons ran in The Journal Record of Oklahoma City on April 24, May 1, and May 8, 2026 — three consecutive weeks, at a publisher's fee of $121.56. The notice told Bondy he had to answer on or before June 8, 2026, or the allegations "will be taken as true and judgment will be rendered against you."

UPDATE — AUGUST 17, 2026 · Everything from this point to the end of this section was added after original publication. As of May 13, 2026, Bondy's answer deadline had not yet passed and no response had been filed.

He did not answer by June 8. He answered on June 17, 2026 — with counsel.

Michael G. McAtee and Christine B. McInnes of McAtee, Baker & McInnes, P.L.L.C. entered their appearances and filed a Defendant's Answer the same day. Bondy admits he was on North Walker Avenue that day. He denies the negligence allegations and demands strict proof. He then raises twelve affirmative defenses, including comparative negligence by the Plaintiff, sudden emergency, assumption of risk, failure to mitigate, that the Plaintiff "sustained no injury or was not injured as severely as alleged," and that the Petition "fails to state a claim upon which relief can be granted."

Two of those defenses are worth noting: insufficiency of process and insufficiency of service of process. Having been served by publication only after a process server swore he was avoiding service, Bondy's lawyers are now arguing the service itself was defective.

No default judgment was entered. The case is live and actively defended.

The contrast worth sitting with

Set the two 2026 cases side by side.

	Wesley Early v. Bondy	Oklahoma Tax Commission v. C&J
Amount at stake	In excess of $75,000	$4,292.27
Brought by	A private citizen	The State of Oklahoma
Service	Evaded; required newspaper publication	Served by mail, returned
Bondy's response	Hired two attorneys, filed a 17-paragraph answer, 12 affirmative defenses	Nothing
Outcome so far	Contested, ongoing	Default judgment, all three defendants

When a private plaintiff came after him for real money, Bondy retained counsel and fought. When the State came after him for sales tax he had collected from his own customers — and asked the court to stop him operating — he did not file a single piece of paper.

Earlier small-claims case. Case SC-2025-13877 — Tonya Anglin v. Craig H. Bondy and C&J Automotive — was a small-claims dispute over $1,958 filed July 2025. Judgment was entered for Bondy on September 3, 2025; the plaintiff appeared without counsel.

Other customer reports. Reviewer Sherry Tomsin documented that "Craig gets rude with customers and reprimands his employees in front of customers" — a pattern that surfaces in multiple low-rated reviews. A separate customer reported a CV-axle replacement that took roughly a month and a half, with the customer having to "basically beg to get my car back."

These are dated, named, public customer accounts — and one is an active lawsuit. None are court findings, and none need to be. Together they describe how this shop does business.

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The State of Oklahoma Sued to Shut the Business Down — and Won by Default

UPDATE — AUGUST 17, 2026 · This entire section was added after original publication. None of it was known or reported when this article was first published on May 13, 2026. The case described here was filed on June 2, 2026 and decided on August 17, 2026.

On June 2, 2026, the State of Oklahoma filed suit against C&J in Oklahoma County District Court. Not a customer. Not a competitor. The state's own tax agency.

Case CV-2026-1336 — State of Oklahoma, ex rel. Oklahoma Tax Commission v. C&J Mobile Services LLC; Craig Bondy, individually and as officer of C&J Mobile Services LLC; and Jeanette Bondy, individually and as officer of C&J Mobile Services LLC.

The filing is titled "Petition for Injunctive Relief and Recovery of Indebtedness." It was brought by Taylor Thomas, Assistant General Counsel for the Oklahoma Tax Commission, and assigned to Judge Richard Ogden.

What the State said he did

The allegation is specific, and it is not a bookkeeping dispute. From the petition:

"That Defendants have collected sales tax on behalf of the State of Oklahoma and failed to remit those taxes." (¶9)

"That Defendants have failed to file its sales tax returns as required by law." (¶10)

Sales tax is never the shop's money. A business that charges it collects it as an agent of the state and holds it in trust until it is remitted. The State's position is that C&J charged its customers, kept the money, and stopped filing returns — and under the default judgment described below, every one of those allegations now stands admitted as a matter of law.

The amount

Six tax warrants had already been filed in Oklahoma County against the business and its officers:

Warrant	Filed against	Tax periods	Filed	Balance
1174898688	Business	Nov 2023 – Feb 2024	5/21/2024	$1,214.32
1404274688	Business	Mar 2024 – May 2024	9/19/2024	$2,845.15
206579712	Officer	Mar 2024 – May 2024	8/20/2025	$2,845.15
1280321536	Officer	Nov 2023 – Feb 2024	8/20/2025	$1,214.32
374851584	Officer	Mar 2024 – May 2024	8/20/2025	$2,845.15
1448593408	Officer	Nov 2023 – Feb 2024	8/20/2025	$1,214.32

Total pleaded: $4,059.47, with interest accruing at 15% per annum. By the time the State moved for judgment on August 6, 2026, the figure had grown to approximately $4,292.27.

The four "officer" warrants mirror the two business warrants. That is the State assessing the same liability personally against Craig and Jeanette Bondy as the individuals responsible for remitting it — not additional money owed.

The petition is explicit that this is a floor, not a ceiling:

"That the total amount due and owing will not be known until Defendants file all returns as required by law... The Oklahoma Tax Commission reserves its right to issue further tax warrants against Defendants for current and future indebtedness." (¶15)

The State asked the court to stop him from operating

This is the part that matters most to Oklahoma City customers. The Tax Commission did not only ask for money:

"That upon knowledge and belief, Defendants have continued business operations despite the tax violations described herein." (¶17)

"That the Oklahoma Tax Commission requests an order enjoining Defendants from operating for failure to file and pay reports and/or returns as required by Oklahoma law." (¶18)

The authority for that request is 68 O.S. § 232, which permits the Tax Commission to seek an injunction against a delinquent business "until said obligations have been satisfied." It is a compliance mechanism, not a permanent bar — it halts a business while it is delinquent and lifts once the returns are filed and the tax is paid.

Nobody answered, and the State won

The docket is short and one-sided:

• June 11, 2026 — the State mailed the Petition, Summons and Entry of Appearance by certified mail to all three defendants
• June 25, 2026 — all three packets collected in person at a postal facility in Oklahoma City and signed for
• August 6, 2026 — the State moved for default judgment
• August 17, 2026 — "Judge Ogden: Motion for Default Judgment is sustained, Judgment granted" — entered separately against Craig Bondy, against Jeanette Bondy, and against C&J Mobile Services LLC. Case closed the same day.

Exhibit A to the State's motion is the proof of service, and it removes any question of whether the defendants knew. Three certified packets, each hand-annotated "Petition, Summons & EOA," were picked up at the counter of an Oklahoma City post office within roughly sixty seconds of each other:

Addressee	USPS tracking	Collected
C&J Mobile Services LLC	9589 0710 5270 2983 1327 37	8:46 AM, June 25, 2026
Craig Bondy	9589 0710 5270 2983 1327 20	8:47 AM, June 25, 2026
Jeanette Bondy	9589 0710 5270 2983 1327 44	8:47 AM, June 25, 2026

USPS recorded each one as "Delivered, Individual Picked Up at Postal Facility." All three were signed for. This was not mail left unopened in a box — someone drove to the post office and collected the lawsuit.

Then, for six weeks, nothing. The State's motion states it plainly: "Defendants have yet to make or file an appearance in this action. Defendants have failed to file an Answer or any responsive pleading to Plaintiff's Petition."

All three defendants were served. None filed anything. The court granted the State everything it asked for — including its request for an order barring the defendants from operating until the returns are filed and the tax is paid — without any hearing on the merits, because the defendants did not appear.

That is the second time in five months a court record shows Bondy dodging a lawsuit. In the pending negligence case, a licensed process server swore under penalty of perjury that he was "avoiding service and never home."

Oklahoma does not allow sales tax on repair labor

There is a detail in the Tax Commission's own rules that makes the collected-and-kept allegation worse. Under OAC 710:65-19-11, the Commission's rule for automotive repair:

• A shop that bills a single lump-sum price covering parts and labor "should not collect sales tax from their customers" at all. It pays tax to its suppliers when buying the parts.
• A shop that itemizes may collect tax on the parts only, because "separately stated labor/installation charges are not subject to sales tax."

And a shop that charges sales tax it should not have charged does not get to keep it:

"If a repair shop charges and collects sales tax in error, it must remit the tax collected in error or refund the tax to its customer." — OAC 710:65-19-11(d)

If you were a C&J customer between November 2023 and May 2024 and your invoice carries a sales tax line, find that receipt and check what the tax was calculated on.

Jeanette Bondy is still named as an officer

The petition names Jeanette Bondy individually and as an officer of C&J Mobile Services LLC, alleging that the individual defendants "have had, and continue to have, direct control, supervision, and responsibility for withholding, collecting, remitting taxes, and filing returns on behalf of the business." (¶4)

Court records show Craig and Jeanette Kay Bondy divorced in January 2021 (FD-2021-149). More than five years later the State still identifies her as a responsible officer of the business, and she now carries a default judgment alongside him.

Ethical Mechanic has reviewed the State's petition, its motion for default judgment, the certified-mail proof of service filed as Exhibit A, and the signed order.

The signed order: what it actually says

UPDATE — AUGUST 30, 2026 · This subsection was added after original publication. The order described here was signed by the court and filed on August 24, 2026.

The Order Granting Motion for Default Judgment was signed by Judge Richard Ogden and file-stamped by the Oklahoma County Court Clerk on August 24, 2026. It was approved as to form by Taylor Thomas, Assistant General Counsel for the Oklahoma Tax Commission. Both pages are reproduced below.

The court found the defendants delinquent in the filing and payment of taxes, and held that their silence was itself an admission: "Defendants' failure to respond to Plaintiff's Petition serves as Defendants' admission of each of the allegations contained therein." (¶4, citing 12 O.S. § 2008(D))

Then it granted the injunction:

"IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that the Plaintiff's prayer for an Order for Injunction enjoining and restraining the Defendants and Defendants' agents, employees, successor, assigns, servants, attorneys, and all others who are under the control of the Defendants from operating the business, C&J Mobile Services LLC, at any and all locations as alleged in the Petition, is granted… and will remain in effect thereafter until such time as all delinquent taxes, interest, penalty, reports, and/or returns are remitted to the Oklahoma Tax Commission, or until further Order of this Court. Said Defendants are also restrained from mortgaging, encumbering, alienating, or otherwise disposing of any property until further Order of this Court."

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Three things in that order are worth reading twice.

It is not limited to one address. The order says at any and all locations.

It reaches successors. The order binds not only the three defendants but their "agents, employees, successor, assigns, servants, attorneys, and all others who are under the control of the Defendants." Dissolving C&J Mobile Services LLC and reopening under a new name, or having someone else hold the paperwork, does not put a person outside an order written in those terms.

It freezes the assets. The defendants are separately restrained from mortgaging, encumbering, alienating or otherwise disposing of any property until the court says otherwise.

The injunction lifts when the delinquent returns are filed and the taxes, interest and penalties are paid. Not before.

What it costs to ignore it

UPDATE — AUGUST 30, 2026 · This subsection was added after original publication.

An injunction is not a request, and in Oklahoma the meter runs by the day.

Under 12 O.S. § 1390, disobeying an injunction is punishable as contempt: a fine of up to $200 for each day of contempt, or up to six months in the county jail, or both. The same statute allows the court to order immediate restitution to the party injured, to require the violator to post security to obey the order, and to hold him in close custody until he complies. Under 12 O.S. § 1388, an injunction binds a party "from the time he has notice thereof." All three defendants signed for the lawsuit in person at an Oklahoma City post office on June 25, 2026.

Because the exposure accrues daily, each day of continued operation is a separate violation.

There is criminal exposure alongside it. Under 68 O.S. § 1364(G), transacting business without a valid sales tax permit — or after a permit has been suspended — is a misdemeanor carrying a fine of up to $1,000. A second or subsequent violation is a Class D3 felony, punishable by a fine of up to $5,000, a term of imprisonment, or both.

And winding one business down to start another does not clear the debt. Under 68 O.S. § 1364(H), failing to surrender a permit and pay accrued taxes is itself sufficient cause for the Tax Commission to refuse that person a permit "to engage in or transact any other business in this state."

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The 200-Plus Reviews — and a Different Story Underneath Them

C&J Mobile Mechanic markets itself heavily on its Google review count — Bondy's public materials cite "200+ reviews" as proof of his standing. Ethical Mechanic has received reports from former customers alleging that a significant portion of those reviews are paid for, fabricated, or solicited in ways that do not reflect genuine unsolicited customer feedback.

The pattern is not unusual in the mobile-mechanic space: an operator with a thin record on more strictly-moderated review platforms (the BBB at C+, Yelp at 13 reviews, Trust Mechanics at 265) leans hard on Google reviews specifically, where the entry barrier is lowest and the moderation is weakest. The Birdeye total review count climbs from 352 to 359 in a span of weeks; clustered short praise reviews repeat near-identical language.

We are publishing the allegation. We are not publishing the names of the customers who have provided this information, to protect them from retaliation.

If you are considering hiring C&J based on the Google review count, weigh that against the verified conviction record above, the BBB unresponsiveness, the elder-customer complaint, the safety incident, and the active negligence lawsuit — none of which appear in the five-star bursts on the Google page.

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What 42 One-Star Reviews Say — and What His Replies Give Away

UPDATE — AUGUST 17, 2026 · This entire section was added after original publication. Ethical Mechanic captured the complete public review record of C&J Mobile Mechanic & Auto Repair on August 17, 2026, and read every reply the business posted beneath them.

There are forty-two one-star reviews on the C&J Google Business Profile. They are not a scattering of cranks. They repeat the same handful of complaints, from different people, across eleven years — and Bondy's own replies to them, read together, tell you more than the complaints do.

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The pattern: cars held for weeks, phones that don't get answered

The single most common complaint is a vehicle disappearing into the shop and the owner being unable to reach anyone about it.

Frank McClarty — five months ago:

"This is absolutely the worst service I've ever experienced!!! We took our van in for brake work. Two weeks ago! This man refused to communicate with us. He would not respond to text messages (40) would not return calls!!! The only way I could get him to respond was I told him that I was calling the police and report the van as stolen!"

The Last Haven — a year ago:

"TOLD 1 WEEK till done (turns out it was 6 months of nothing!)... HE LITERALLY LEFT WITH NO WARNING one day and ditched me at the shop and snuck out!"

Zarae White — two years ago: "Never come here had my car for 3 weeks couldn't tell me what was wrong with it and couldn't give me a quote."

Doug Craig — eleven months ago: "Truck has been here for 2 weeks. Waiting on power steering hose to be replaced. I even bought 1 and took to them. Never answers the phone. 1 excuse after another."

Cesar H — an edited review from a former regular:

"Edit: It's gone downhill since Jessica left… Was a loyal customer for years until they took almost a month and a half to change CV axles. I had to basically beg to get my car back."

Shannon Hornaday — posted the day we compiled this record:

"No one ever answers the phone. When I did show up for my appointment my parts we not there to fix the issue with my car."

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Work billed but disputed

Brett Robinson — eleven months ago:

"Paid 700$ for the service 5th cylinder misfire, drove it around again and I suddenly had a 4th cylinder misfire. Took it to a different mechanic who said that nothing had been replaced, the broken one was put into the 4th cylinder. I'm truly disgusted — this is shameful."

michelle stone — four years ago:

"I took to have camshaft synchronizer replaced ..was told my car didn't have one... picked car up and the next day check engine light was back on and had the same noise! I took to another shop and watched a mechanic remove and replaced the camshaft synchronizer!!"

Kali Taylor — a year ago, a customer who had spent over $2,000 there:

"After my car sat in a field across the street for 11 Days I finally offered to pay for the tow and wanted to be done. I was told the engine was locked up. It wasn't. I was told no one would fix my car today. They did. It was the starter just like I had said."

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Allegations of missing property and missing money

These are customer allegations, not findings. We publish them as what they are — named, dated, public statements, each still visible on the business profile.

Connie Gray — four years ago: "While my truck was in his possession my cadiletic converters were stolen and also my my censors were stolen. Now it's going to cost me $3300."

Junk Removal — "Tools were stolen out of my truck and cigarettes smoked in the cab of my truck. I don't smoke cigarettes..."

Thea Wanamaker — "I know for a fact he swapped out my parts for the blue avalanche that was there before me... the parts he swapped out had warranties and the parts I had for my truck had numbers and they didn't match my warranty."

Katrina Jones — a year ago, alleging a payment that did not clear:

"he charge me for trolling that he did not do and i had to go up there to get my money back he writes me a check that bounced."

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The shop itself

Brittany Hurt — a year ago: "I stopped by this location in the morning and there were people sleeping everywhere in the office in the back of a van. Not professional."

Heather Williams, a neighbour rather than a customer, complains the operation has outgrown its site — that C&J blocks Jordan Street, has "gotten tickets from the city" and "made yalls neighbor mad enough to put up a metal fence."

Two separate reviewers accuse the shop of drug use on site. Both received the same reply, discussed below.

Twelve further reviewers left one star and no written comment at all.

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The Replies Are the Story

Craig Bondy answers his reviews — he replied to 31 of the 42. Here is what those replies show, in his own words.

He writes about himself in the third person

Almost none of his replies are written as himself. Craig appears as a character in them:

"Craig was going somewhere and would be passing by so elected to see it in the field."

"Craig answers when he can."

"Craig tends to approach thoughtfully and intentionally."

"You are welcome to ask for Craig directly and he will be happy to address them because he believes there is always room for improvement."

That last line is a stranger vouching for Craig's private beliefs — written from the business's own account.

Then the device fails. Thai Hoffman's review mocked the operator's demeanour, comparing his customer service to a wet sock. The reply:

"Perpetual exhaustion would best describe his countenance... Regardless, it just so happens that Craig's socks actually were wet from a car that spewed coolant on his feet. How Mr. Hoffman was able to detect this is beyond our understanding."

Only one person knows why Craig's socks were wet.

He signs as more than one person — in the same reply

The response to Trinity Gaines is the clearest example. A long third-person account of Craig's conduct, signed:

(Jessica)

Followed immediately, in the same reply, by:

(From the "so called" owner) I dont understand the issue... If she that unhappy, she can find somewhere else to be unhappy. --Craig

One post. Two signatures. A narrator who praises Craig, and Craig who delivers the contempt. The phrase "the so called owner" is the operator sneering at the idea that he is the owner, while replying as the owner.

This matters because it is the same technique as the "Ben Calevah" correspondence described earlier in this article — a constructed second voice that can say things about Craig Bondy that would be unseemly in the first person.

He buries criticism under sheer volume

His replies to one-star reviews run to a median of 1,182 characters — thousands of words on ABS valve bodies, back-ordered seal kits, VIN cross-referencing, Chrysler warranty policy and video surveillance, until no reader reaches the end and the complaint sits buried beneath a wall of expertise.

He concedes exactly once

In thirty-one replies to one-star reviews there is a single unqualified admission, to Kali Taylor:

"Sometimes we get it wrong. No excuses. We wish you the best."

It is immediately followed by a hundred and fifty words explaining why the phone goes unanswered.

Everywhere else, the fault belongs to the customer

"After 10 years, Pastor, you know better, or you should. Gross mischaracterization to say the least. It is like some people purposely try to misunderstand." — to Frank McClarty, using the man's ministry against him

"you are probably not the kind of customer we want" — to sarah airington

"How you gonna leave a 1 star when after you spent all that money and wasted hours trying to fix your Avalanche yourself..." — to Leshone Farmer

"she became belligerent and rude. Craig made her leave." — to Trinity Gaines

To K L, who wrote only "Wouldn't trust Craig to even drive my car let alone work on it":

"Craig has made clear that he prefers it that way. If you don't trust your mechanic, he cannot do his job effectively."

There is a prepared answer for drug allegations

Two reviewers accused the shop of drug use. Isaiah Glover wrote of "tweaking people just hanging out in the shop." Broken Teeth Album Reviews wrote "DO NOT DO BUSINESS WITH THESE CRACKHEADS."

Both received the same deflection — that they had confused C&J with a different business on 59th Street. The second added:

"The owner here is ABSOLUTELY committed to a drug free environment."

Both received the same reply

And the ex-wives are real

The Ben Calevah letter claimed: "All three of his ex wives show up in his google reviews. Jeanette, Dorothy and Shannon." It further claimed "ALL THREE vouched for his integrity and ethics."

The first half is true. All three names appear on the profile.

The second half is not. Jeanette Kay posted a complaint about a failed oil-plug repair that left her with a bill of over $250 — and the business account replied by publicly disclosing that she was his ex-wife and telling her to "go and live the life she has chosen and leave me alone." Shannon Hornaday posted a one-star review on August 17, 2026.

Two of the three ex-wives he named as character references have publicly contradicted him.

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What We Know About Craig Henry Bondy Jr.

Based on Oklahoma County court records, BBB filings, public reviews, and OSCN docket searches. Entries tagged UPDATE — AUG 17, 2026 were added after original publication:

• Full legal name: Craig Henry Bondy Jr.
• Approximate age: ~60 (offense date September 30, 1991; case filed 1996; consistent with mid-1960s birth year)
• Businesses operated at 1801 S. Jordan Ave, Oklahoma City, OK 73129:
  • C&J Mobile Mechanic & Auto Repair (mobile + shop)
  • C&J Performance & Automotive (restoration / custom builds)
  • C & J Enterprises, Inc. (corporate entity per BBB)
• Phone: (405) 305-2184
• Career: Automotive industry since 1978. AS Degree in Automotive Technology, 1989. Prior GM dealership work.
• C&J founding: January 2011 (per his marketing) / June 11, 2012 (per BBB record)
• Verified conviction (CF-1996-368): Two counts of Indecent or Lewd Acts with a Child Under 16 (21 O.S. § 1123). 15 years on each count. Affirmed on direct appeal (F-1997-236) and on post-conviction (PC-1999-1180). Mandamus petition denied (MA-1999-1080).
• Related family-court filings: Marriage ML-1993-1158 (Dorothy Edith Johnson, March 1993). Divorce FD-1998-1042 (Cleveland County, granted August 2000). Marriage ML-2012-4443 (Jeanette Kay Westlund, October 2012). Divorce FD-2021-149 (January 2021).
• UPDATE — AUG 17, 2026 · State tax enforcement (CV-2026-1336): State of Oklahoma ex rel. Oklahoma Tax Commission v. C&J Mobile Services LLC, Craig Bondy and Jeanette Bondy — both named individually and as officers. Filed June 2, 2026. Alleges sales tax collected from customers and not remitted for Nov 2023–May 2024, and failure to file returns. $4,059.47 pleaded, approximately $4,292.27 as of August 6, 2026, interest at 15% per annum. The State requested an order enjoining the defendants from operating. Default judgment granted against all three on August 17, 2026.
• UPDATE — AUG 30, 2026 · Signed injunction (CV-2026-1336): Order Granting Motion for Default Judgment signed by Judge Richard Ogden, file-stamped August 24, 2026. Enjoins the defendants and their "agents, employees, successor, assigns, servants, attorneys, and all others who are under the control of the Defendants" from operating C&J Mobile Services LLC at any and all locations, until all delinquent taxes, interest, penalties, reports and returns are remitted to the Oklahoma Tax Commission or until further order of the court. Separately restrains the defendants from mortgaging, encumbering, alienating, or otherwise disposing of any property.
• Business entity: C&J Mobile Services LLC — a domestic entity in good standing with the Oklahoma Secretary of State, doing business as C&J Mobile Mechanic & Auto Repair (per the State's petition).
• UPDATE — AUG 17, 2026 · One-star review record (captured 08/17/2026): 42 one-star reviews on the Google Business Profile, spanning eleven years. Bondy replied to 31 of them, at a median length of 1,182 characters.
• UPDATE — AUG 17, 2026 · Review-reply persona: replies posted from the business account routinely refer to Craig Bondy in the third person, and one reply to a single reviewer is signed both "(Jessica)" and "--Craig," the latter introduced as being "from the 'so called' owner."
• BBB: C+ rating, not accredited, one unresponded complaint on file.
• Pending civil litigation (CJ-2026-1382): Wesley Early v. Craig Bondy. Auto negligence, damages in excess of $75,000 for injuries alleged on or about November 21, 2025 on North Walker Avenue near NW 12th Street, Oklahoma City. Service by publication ordered April 21, 2026 after a process-server affidavit stated Bondy was "Avoiding Service and never home." UPDATE — AUG 17, 2026: Bondy answered on June 17, 2026 through McAtee, Baker & McInnes, P.L.L.C., denying negligence and raising twelve affirmative defenses including insufficiency of service of process. No default was entered; the case is contested and ongoing before Judge Amy Palumbo.
• Other address on record (per April 2026 process-server affidavit): 2908 SE 57th St, Oklahoma City, OK.
• Known alias correspondence: "Ben Calevah" / bnclvh@gmail.com — Ethical Mechanic believes this is Bondy writing under another name; a Facebook page under that name publicly identifies itself as the owner of C&J Mobile Mechanic Service.

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How to Vet Any Mobile Mechanic Before You Let Them on Your Property

Craig Bondy's case is a specific warning. The broader lesson it points to is universal: before any mobile operator is on your property, run the same basic checks every time.

1. Search the operator's full name on the Oklahoma State Courts Network. Use oscn.net — type a first and last name into the docket search. Court records there are public, free, and definitive.
2. Check the state sex offender registry. The Oklahoma Department of Corrections maintains a public registry at sors.doc.ok.gov. It takes thirty seconds.
3. Search the name alongside "arrest," "charged," "lawsuit," or "complaint." A standard Google search will surface court records and news coverage faster than any paid background-check service.
4. Check the BBB profile directly, not just Google reviews. Google is the easiest review platform to manipulate. The BBB shows accreditation status, formal complaints, and response history.
5. Pay with a credit card, not Cash App, Zelle, or Venmo. A credit card gives you a dispute mechanism. Peer-to-peer apps do not.
6. Tell someone the appointment is happening. Have a friend, neighbor, or family member know who is coming, when, and how long they are expected to be there.
7. Never leave a mobile mechanic alone on your property with children present. If your schedule does not allow you to be home with eyes on the work, reschedule the appointment — or use a different shop.

These steps are not specific to Craig Bondy. They apply to every operator who shows up at your door — regardless of business name, online reviews, or word-of-mouth referrals.

Visit our Avoiding Scams guide for a complete checklist, or use our verified mechanic directory to find an operator whose credentials have been independently checked.

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Sources

Oklahoma County District Court — OSCN dockets:

• CF-1996-368 — Criminal docket, conviction record
• F-1997-236 — Direct appeal, affirmed
• PC-1999-1180 — Post-conviction relief denied, affirmed
• MA-1999-1080 — Mandamus denied
• CJ-2026-1382 — Pending negligence lawsuit
• SC-2025-13877 — Small-claims case
• CV-2026-1336 — Oklahoma Tax Commission enforcement action, default judgment

State public records:

• Oklahoma State Courts Network (OSCN) docket search
• Oklahoma Sex Offender Registry (SORS)
• Oklahoma DOC Offender Lookup
• OAC 710:65-19-11 — Automotive repair (Oklahoma sales tax rule on parts vs. labor)
• 68 O.S. § 232 — Tax Commission injunction authority
• 12 O.S. § 1390 — Disobedience of an injunction punishable as contempt; per-day fines, jail
• 12 O.S. § 1388 — An injunction binds the party from the time he has notice
• 68 O.S. § 1364 — Sales tax permits; operating without or after suspension (subsec. G); refusal of future permits (subsec. H)

Business listings and customer reviews:

• C & J Mobile Mechanics and Automotive Repairs — BBB (#0995-90114980)
• C & J Enterprises, Inc. — BBB (#0995-10000045)
• C&J Mobile Mechanic & Auto Repair — Yelp
• C&J Performance & Automotive — Facebook
• C&J Mobile Mechanic — Facebook (older page)
• Reviews on My Website — C&J Mobile Mechanic (Northcott and Tomsin reviews)
• C&J Mobile Mechanic & Auto Repair — Google Business Profile reviews

Internal records on file at Ethical Mechanic:

• Oklahoma court conviction document (1990s)
• Correspondence received from an account identifying as "Ben Calevah" (bnclvh@gmail.com)
• Customer reports regarding alleged paid/fabricated Google reviews
• Petition for Injunctive Relief and Recovery of Indebtedness, CV-2026-1336, filed 06/02/2026 (OSCN doc #1065694378)
• Motion for Default Judgment, CV-2026-1336, filed 08/06/2026 (OSCN doc #1066393257)
• Exhibit A to the Motion for Default Judgment — USPS certified-mail receipts and return receipts for all three defendants, delivered 06/25/2026
• Order Granting Motion for Default Judgment, CV-2026-1336, signed by Judge Richard Ogden, file-stamped 08/24/2026 (OSCN doc #1066544231) — reproduced in full above
• Capture of the 42 one-star reviews on the C&J Google Business Profile, with the operator's replies, taken 08/17/2026

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This article is published in the public interest. The criminal record described above is a matter of public Oklahoma court record. Every case number, charge, sentence, and appellate disposition cited here is independently verifiable on the Oklahoma State Courts Network. If you have information about Craig Henry Bondy Jr., C&J Mobile Mechanic, or have had an experience with this operator you wish to report, contact us through EthicalMechanic.org.