I have a plumber friend (known 7 years, has done work on all sorts of my properties) who owned his own LLC at one point then was working for a licensed company in Phoenix, AZ. I hired him to do some work for me, we had a verbal contract, I fronted him 3k for materials, he never came back. This was almost a year ago, what kind of recourse do i have, if any? I have messages prior to theft about the work, evidence of the 3k transaction and even messages of him saying he was at the property beginning said work while I was out of town at the beginning of the project.