Bangor, Maine, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with submitting a false mortgage loan application and maintaining a marijuana-involved premises.
Ken Yiu, 49, of New York City, purchased a house in Saint Albans using an $80,000 residential mortgage loan he obtained from a Maine bank. To receive the funding, Yiu submitted a loan application in which he answered “Yes” ...
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(12-11-2025 - ME)
United States of America v. Christopher Crawford
Burlington, Vermont, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute 28 grams or more of cocaine base and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
Christopher Crawford, age 36, was detained by the State of Vermont on charges of first-degree murder, cocaine possession, methamphetamine possession, and possession of a ...
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(12-11-2025 - vt)
United States of America v. Jason McGrath
Burlington, Vermont, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempting to entice a minor to produce child sexual abuse materials (CSAM, also known as child pornography).
Jason McGrath, age 45, of South Burlington, Vermont corresponded with two people via an internet messaging application, offering to pay money for the production of original CSAM. McGrath sent money to th ...
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(12-11-2025 - VT)
State of New Hampshire v. Paige Goulet
Nashua, New Hampshire, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with exposing child criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with
Paige Goulet, age 30, was accused endangering the welfare of a child, a Class A mindemeanor. ...
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(12-11-2025 - NH)
United States of America v. David Mendum
Concord, New Hampshire, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexual exploitation of minors.
David Mendum, age 39, of Harrisonville, New Hampshire, was accused of paying a child sex trafficker in the Philippines to create live-stream child sexual abuse material and transmit it to him over the internet.
“Today’s sentence reflects the profound seriousness of this ...
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(12-11-2025 - NH)
State of Alabama v. Jasmine Allen
Birmingham, Alabama, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with capital murder of two or more people and one count of attempted murder.
Jasmine Allen, age 25, was accused of shooting and killing Sonny Arrington, 43, of Clarksville, Tenn. and Carlton Rufus Allen, 76, of Birmingham. ...
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(12-11-2025 - al)
United States of America v. Xiebin Xue
Birmingham, Alabama, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged possessing counterfeit gift cards.
On January 10, 2024, Xiebin Xue, 40, was found in possession of at least 33 gift cards that had been re-encoded with card numbers different from the card numbers printed on the cards and at least two gift cards that bore fake bar code labels that did not match the printed and encod ...
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(12-11-2025 - AL)
State of Alabama v. Mike Foley
Montgomery, Alabama, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with to two misdemeanor counts of campaign solicitation violations.
Mike Floey, the Montgomery County, Alabama, County Clerk, was accused of several crimes involving solicitation of campaign contributions. ...
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(12-11-2025 - GA)
United States of America v. Larenta Deshawn Dawkins
Montgomery, Alabama, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
Law enforcement began investigating suspected drug trafficking activity in Houston County in July 2024. Investigators determined that Larenta DeShawn Dawkins, age 38, was receiving packages in Dothan that contained methamphetamine shipped from out of state. ...
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(12-11-2025 - AL)
State of Alabama v. Mike Downey
Mobile, Alabama, criminal defense lawyer presents man under investigation for shooting and killing his neighbor.
Mike Downey claimed that this neighbor was trying to kill him and acted in self-defense. ...
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(12-11-2025 - GA)
United States of America v. Logan Smith
Mobile, Alabama, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexual exploitation and attempted enticement of a minor.
Logan Smith, age 38, first came to law enforcement attention following a report that he had been distributing child pornography via the internet. Further investigation revealed that he had been communicating with a minor victim living out of state over a peri ...
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(12-11-2025 - AL)
State of Georgia v. Zabria Bridges
Douglasville, Georgia, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charted with torturing and beating her dog to death.
Zabria Bridges, age 26, was arrested in Douglas County for aggravated animal cruelty. ...
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(12-11-2025 - GA)
United States of America v. Mitchell Parsons Hughes
Atlanta, Georgia criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with illegally operating a drone over Truist Park duing a MLB All-Star Game.
Mitchell Parsons Hughes was charged with committing a federal crime by flying a drone over Truist Park during the Major League Baseball All-Star game in July 2025 and was sentenced to six months’ probation.
“Anyone attempting to fly a dr ...
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(12-11-2025 - GA)
United States of America v. Norman Dixon
Newman, Georgia criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with dogfighting and CARES Act Fraud.
Norman Dixson arraigned on federal charges of sponsoring and exhibiting a dog in an animal fighting venture, promoting an animal fighting venture, animal crushing, and wire fraud.
“The indictment alleges that Dixson viciously abused dogs and repeatedly lied to obtain COVID relie ...
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(12-11-2025 - GA)
United States of America v. Reginald Weeks-Lewis
Columbus, Georgia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with one count of illegal possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
Reginald Weeks-Lewis, age 29, of Columbus, Georgia, was driving on Sidney Simons Boulevard in Columbus in the early hours of March 1, 2025, when Muscogee County Sheriff’s Office deputies on patrol observed a traffic violation and initiated a stop. ...
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(12-11-2025 - GA)
State of Georgia v. Franklin Thorpe and Franklin Thorpe
Savannah, Georgia, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with enticing a minor for indecent purposes.
Marty Sanderson, age 54, and Franklin Thorpe, age 38, were charged with various sex crimes involving children. ...
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(12-10-2025 - GA)
United States of America v. Charlie Sapp
Savannah, Georgia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with felony possession of ammunition by a prohibited person.
On October 8, 2021, Charlies Sapp, age 58, retrieved a loaded firearm from a vehicle, confronted an individual in an apartment complex parking lot, pointed the firearm at that individual, and then fired three shots. The individual Sapp shot died on the scene ...
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(12-08-2025 - GA)
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State of Florida v. Emeril Tytron Lemeul Rachel
Titusville, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with first-degree felony murder.
Emeril Tytron Lemeul Rachel, age 13, was charged with the shooting death of a man during a botched robbery.
A grand jury returned the indictment against the teen, who investigators say arranged to meet 30-year-old Kelby Gavin Miller through a social media app before attempting to ...
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(12-11-2025 - FL)
United States of America v. Willie Frank Hicks, Jr.
Tallahassee, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
On May 29, 2025, Madison County Sheriff’s Office deputies on patrol conducted a traffic stop of a vehicle occupied by Willie Frank Hicks, of Madison, Florida. During the traffic stop, the defendant attempted to flee the scene on foot and was subsequently a ...
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(12-11-2025 - FL)
Estate of Maria Rivers, et al. v. Nicholas Betancourt
Tampa, Florida personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued on auto negligence wrongful death theories.
Dana Maria Rivera, age 36, was driving south on Gunn Highway in Odessa on Feb. 28 to pick her fourth child up from school when 33-year-old Nicholas Betancour crossed the center line and crashed into the family’s Lincoln Town Car.
Betncourt was found to be under the influen ...
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United States of America v. Tyler Corbin, Edward Noel, Alfredo Santana), and Omar Singateth
Tampa, Florida, criminal defense lawyers represent the Defendants charged with international conspiracy to traffic in firearms.
Tyler Corbin (25, Tampa), Edward Noel (26, Canada), Alfredo Santana (32, Miami), Omar Singateth (24, Canada), and Arif Jhuman (39, Canada) with conspiracy to traffic firearms, trafficking in firearms, and dealing firearms with a license. The indictment also charges Cor ...
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(12-11-2025 - FL)
United States of America v. Boris Arencibia and Jose Armando Rivera Garcia
Miami, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Defendants charged with schemes involving the sale of diverted and misbranded pharmaceutical drugs, including medications used to treat HIV and cancer.
Boris Arencibia, 52, and Jose Armando Rivera Garcia, 45, both of Miami, purchased high-priced prescriptions medications from illicit street sources—including patien ...
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(12-11-2025 - FL)
State of Oklahoma v. Audrey Rose Seeley
Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with child stealing in violation of 21 O.S. 891, which provides:
Whoever maliciously, forcibly or fraudulently takes or entices away any child under the age of sixteen (16) years, with intent to detain or conceal such child from its parent, guardian or other person having the lawful charge of such child or to transport s ...
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(12-10-2025 - OK)
State of Oklahoma v. Matthew John White
Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with:
Count # 1.
Count as Filed: CHAB, CHILD ABUSE, in violation of 21 O.S. 843.5 (A)
Date of Offense: 03/03/2025
WHITE, MATTHEW JOHN
Disposed: CONVICTION, 12/08/2025. Guilty Plea
Count as Disposed: CHILD ABUSE(CHAB)
Violation of 21 O.S. 843.5 (A)
Count # 2.
Count as Filed: ABGEN, DOMESTIC A&B, in violation o ...
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(12-10-2025 - OK)
State of Oklahoma v. Jose Luis Rosaria
Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal dense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with:
Count # 1.
Count as Filed: CCV, UNAUTHORIZED USE OF A CREDIT/DEBIT CARD, in violation of 21 O.S. 1550.29
Date of Offense: 10/13/2025
ROSARIA, JOSE LUIS
Disposed: DEFERRED, 12/09/2025. Guilty Plea
Count as Disposed: AMENDED TO MISDEMEANOR UNAUTHORIZED USE OF CREDIT/DEBIT CARD(CCV)
Violation of 21 O.S. 1550.2
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(12-10-2025 - OK)
United States of America v. Dylan Ray Yahola
Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with production of child pornography. ...
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(12-10-2025 - OK)
Harold Barrow and Sherrie Barrow v. Liberty Mutual Personal Insurance Company
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, insurance law lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a breach of contract bad faith theory.
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Oklahoma insurance bad faith law holds insurers to an implied duty of good faith and fair dealing, meaning they must act reasonably, thoroughly investigate, and promptly pay covered claims, not delay or deny them without cause; a breach allows policyholders to s ...
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(12-10-2025 - OK)
United States of America v. Danny Seibel
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit bank fraud, bank fraud, making false entries in the books and records of a financial institution, obstructing the examination of a financial institution and failing to implement an anti-money laundering program.
Danny Seibel, age 54, of Lindsay, Oklahoma, was the President and Chief Exec ...
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(12-10-2025 - OK)
United States of America v. Donovan Matthew Pruett
Muskogee, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with one count of Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law.
Matthew Pruett, age 24, of Checotah, Oklahoma, on September 28, 2024, while on duty and working in an official capacity as an Okfuskee County jailer, Pruett physically assaulted the victim, an inmate in the Okfuskee County Jail, while the inmate was restrai ...
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(12-10-2025 - OK)
United States of America v. Quintin Flanagin
Wichita, Kansas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged one count of wire fraud, one count of bank fraud, one count of false statements, and one count of money laundering.
Quintin Flanagin, 45, of Colby, Kansas, was accused for defrauding clients of his accounting firm, who were also his relatives, of more than $400,000.
As a certified public accountant (CPA), Flanagin us ...
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(12-10-2025 - KS)
United States of America v. Luke Everrett David
Cheyenne, Wyoming, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distribution of child pornography.
The Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force (ICAC) received eight CyberTip reports between December 2024 and March 2025. The reports had been submitted to NCMEC from MediaLab/Kik and appeared to be related through common email ...
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(12-10-2025 - WY)
United States of America v. Paul Barsch III
Denver, Colorado, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with one count of production of child pornography.
John Paul Barsch III, age 31, a soldier while stationed at Fort Carson in Colorado Springs produced child porn.
on multiple occasions between November 2018 and March 2020, Barsch performed sex acts on an infant or toddler in his custody, care, or control; created vi ...
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(12-10-2025 - CO)
United States of America v. Maylene John
Albuquerque, New Mexico, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with voluntary manslaughter in Indian Country.
On October 24, 2022, Maylene John, 35, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation at the time of the offense, stabbed her 7-year-old daughter in the heart with a knife, causing her death. John was under the influence of methamphetamine at the time of the incident.
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(12-10-2025 - NM)
United States of America v. Noel Zuniga-Hernandez
Salt Lake City, Utah, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with reentering the United States after removal. ...
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(12-10-2025 - UT)
United States of America v. Bryan Walter McMahan
Salt Lake City, Utah, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distributing fentanyl by mailing a package of oxycodone pills containing fentanyl to a Utah woman, who died after ingesting the narcotic.
Brayan Walter McMahan, age 41, of Las Vegas,
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United States of America v. Thurman Reed
Anchorage, Alaska, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute controlled drugs.
Thursman Reed, age 67, was accused of trafficking large quantities of illicit narcotics in Anchorage and for possessing a firearm in furtherance of his drug trafficking crimes.
In February 2024, Thurman Reed, 67, sold roughly six grams of fentanyl analogue ...
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(12-04-2025 - AK)
United States of America v. Anthony Raymond Dodd, et al.
Tacoma, Washington, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with drug trafficking and firearms violations.
The longest sentence, ten years, was imposed on Anthony Raymond Dodd, 36, of Seattle. Dodd was convicted of possession of fentanyl with intent to distribute and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime on July 25, 2025 following a three-day t ...
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(12-08-2025 - WA)
United States of America v. Andrew Pete Serrano
Yakima, Washington, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Accessory After the Fact for his role in the 2018 murder of Rosenda Strong and to being a Felon in Possession of a Firearm in a separate matter from 2019.
Jedidah Iesha Moreno shot and killed Rosenda Strong on or about October 5, 2018, following an argument at a residence, known as the House of Souls in Wapato, ...
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(12-03-2025 - WA)
United States of America v. Joshan Rohani
Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with transporting and possessing photos and videos depicting child sexual abuse.
Joshan rohani, 41, was accused to transporting and possessing photos and videos depicting child sexual abuse.
, between July and December 2021, Rohani participated in at least 34 chatrooms, some of which were focused on sharing child sex ...
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(12-08-2025 - OR)
United States of America v. Usman Hanif Khan
Billings, Montana criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with use of a facility in interstate commerce in aid of racketeerring.
Usman Hanif Khan, 52, was charged with one count of use of a facility of interstate commerce to aid in racketeering.
prior to April 9, 2023, Khan met a woman on a social media website for those interested in a commercial sex relationship. Then, o ...
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(12-04-2025 - MT)