Attorney General credits News 6 with exposing ‘unlawful’ hot tub business

The Office of Florida’s Attorney General is crediting News 6 with exposing a local business that was allegedly selling hot tubs in violation of a court order.The state recently filed a motion in Volusia County Circuit Court accusing Dylan and Chelsie Placker of shuttering an “unlawful” hot tub business after News 6 published an investigative report about the couple last year.The state is asking a judge to reinstate a nearly half-million-dollar judgment against the Plackers and order any appropriate “civil or criminal contempt proceedings”, court records show.Four years ago, News 6 began reporting on complaints from customers who claimed the Plackers sold leaky and defective hot tubs on Facebook Marketplace.The attorney general’s office sued the Plackers in 2024 for violating Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act after receiving complaints from more than 30 consumers, court records show.To settle those claims, the following year the Plackers signed an agreement that banned