| United States of America v. Steven Mark Moore |
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Plano, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with straw purchases of firearms. Reported by Kent Morlan Steven Mark Moore, 27, of Yukon, Oklahoma, purchased firearms at various pawn shops and gun shows were linked to various crimes in the United States as well $ (06-05-2026 - TX) |
| Robert P. Oristaglio, Jr. ex rel. United States of America v. Community Care Health Network LLC, doing business as Matrix Medical Network (Matrix), DPN USA, doing business as HealthFair (HealthFair), and Shahriah “James” Ekbatani |
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Beaumont, Texas, civil litigation lawyers represented the Plaintiff on a qui tam action claiming that the Defendants violated the False Claims Act (FCA) by causing the submission of false or invalid diagnosis codes to the Medicare Advantage program. Reported by Kent Morlan The United` $ (06-05-2026 - TX) |
| United States of America v. Enedelia Carranco Garcia, and Ashley Garcia |
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Corpus Christi, Texas, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants chrged with bringing and harboring aliens. Reported by Kent Morlan On the evening of July 22, 2025, Enedelia Garcia drove to the Border Patrol checkpoint near Kingsville with her daughter in the backseat and ano $ (06-05-2026 - TX) |
| United States of America v. Brayden Matthew Alvarado |
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El Paso, Texas, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with kidnapping resulting in death. Reported by Kent Morlan Brayden Matthew Alvarado, 23, of Vado, New Mexico, carjacked a man before driving him onto Fort Bliss desert property and fatally shooting him in the h $ (06-04-2026 - TX) |
| State of Texas v. Zachery Castenon |
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Conroe, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged driving while intoxicated. Reported by Kent Morlan Zachery Castenon showed up for duty and smelled of alcohol. $ (06-04-2026 - TX) |
| United States of America v. Joel Ipina |
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Dallas, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with theft concerning programs receiving federal funds. Reported by Kent Morlan Joel Ipina, age 50, was employed by DHA from 1995 to 2024. DHA receives federal funding through the U.S. Department of Housing and U $ (06-05-2026 - TX) |
| United States of America v. Isaiah Joshua Lee Houston |
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Lubbock, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with car jacking. Reported by Kent Morlan Isaiah Joshua Lee Houston, 26, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, carjacking that occurred next to the federal and county courthouses in downtown Lubbock, Texas. Houston ap $ (06-05-2026 - TX) |
| State of Florida v. Natasha Ethel Bagley |
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Miami, Florida criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with carjacking, aggravated assault with a weapon, criminal mischief, grand theft and battery. Reported by Kent Morlan Natasha Ethel Bagley, 49, of Hialeah, accused to attacking an rideshare driver and damaging his $ (06-04-2026 - FL) |
| State of Oklahoma v. DeAngelo Kent |
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Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with possession of a stolen vehicle and attempted grand larceny. href="https://www.morelaw.com/vendors/vendor.asp?f=Kent&l=Morlan&i=28729&z=74119&s=OK" target="_new">Kent Morlan DeAngelo Kent was standing near a stolen vehicle when Tulsa Police Department officers found the vehicle after it was reported missing. H $ (06-04-2026 - OK) |
| Untied States of America v. Gregory Tischuk |
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Rock Hill, South Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charge with straw purchasing firearms. Reported by Kent Morlan Gregory Tischuk, age 66, of York County, trafficked guns from Fort Mill to Baltimore, Maryland, through a gun trafficker operating in Charlotte, $ (06-04-2026 - SC) |
| United States ex rel. GHGH2, Inc. v. Vsoft Technologies Corporation |
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Charlotte, North Carolina civil litigation lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendant on behalf of the United States on a qui tam theory. Reported by Kent Morlan GNGH2 Inc. sued Vsoft Corporation claiming that it misrepresented that it was a small business with less than 3 $ (05-08-2026 - NC) |
| United States of America v. Denis Joesph Bouchard |
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Raleigh, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with false claim of citizenship in order to vote. Reported by Kent Morlan Denis Bouchard, 70, falsely claimed to be a United States citizen when he voted, including registering to vote in the 2024 presid $ (06-04-2026 - NC) |
| United States of America v. Daiwor “Mark Brown” Woah-Tee |
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Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged harged with conspiracy to submit false, fictitious, and fraudulent claims to the Internal Revenue Service and wire fraud conspiracy stemming from a scheme to fraudulently obtain UI benefits during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Reported by More... $ (06-04-2026 - MD) |
| United States of America v. Jordan Perez |
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Charlottesville, Virginia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with kidnapping and transporting illegal aliens resulting in death. Reported by Kent Morlan Jordan Perez, 21, of Lockhart, Texas, and co-conspirator, Ricardo Ordaz, 26, of Cedar Creek Texas, tied to t $ (06-04-2026 - VA) |
| United States of America v. Matthew Clemont |
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Wheeling, West Virginia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute drugs. Reported by Kent Morlan Matthew Clemont, 33, of Wheeling, West Virginia, worked with others in a drug trafficking operation in the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia $ (06-03-2026 - WV) |
| United States of America v. McCayla Myers |
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Charleston, West Virginia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with aiding and abetting theft of government money. Reported by Kent Morlan McCayla Myers, 27, of Cabin Creek, engaged in a scheme to defraud the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) of $83,332.00 in COVI $ (05-28-2026 - WV) |
| United States of America v. Giovanni Antonio Garduno Garcia |
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Seattle, Washington, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with armed drug trafficking. Reported by Kent Morlan Giovanni Antonio Garduno Garcia, age 37, was arrested in May 2025 following a law enforcement investigation of trafficking narcotics to vulnerable peopl $ (06-04-2026 - WA) |
| United States of America v. Luke Ethan Rogers |
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Amarillo, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with possession of child pornography. Reported by Kent Morlan Luke Ethan Rogers charged with one count of ‘receipt and distribution of child pornography’ and a count of ‘possession of child pornography invo $ (06-04-2026 - TX) |
| The People v. Nick Pasqual |
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Los Angeles, California, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempted murder and forcible rape. Reported by Kent Morlan Actor Nick Pasqual was accused of first-degree residential burglary and multiple counts of injuring a spouse, cohabitant, fiance's, boyfr $ (06-04-2026 - CA) |
| United States of America v. Thomas Pipich |
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fraud. Reported by Kent Morlan Thomas Pipich, age 74, tole millions of dollars from an investment client in order to conceal losses he incurred on behalf of another client. In 2005, Pipich helped t $ (06-02-2026 - PA) |
| United States of America v. Krandon Wenger |
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Allentown, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fire fraud. Reported by Kent Morlan Krandon Wenger, 25, of Lititz, Pennsylvania, was charged with two counts of wire fraud, arising from a pandemic program fraud scheme in which he defrauded the go $ (06-02-2026 - PA) |
| United States of America v. Deangelo LaShawn Favors |
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Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with felony possession of firearms, possession of drugs with intent to distribute. Reported by Kent Morlan In 2024, agents with the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics began an investigation into bulk fentanyl and meth $ (05-27-2026 - OK) |
| United States of America v. Danny Seibel |
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Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with bank fraud. Reported by Kent Morlan Danny Seibel, 55, of Lindsay, Oklahoma, was an executive at FNBL from in or around February 2007 until his termination in September 2024. As alleged, Seibel cause $ (05-11-2026 - OK) |
| United States of America v. Pedro Ramirez Covarrubias |
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Muskogee, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with unlawful reentry of removed alien in violation of 8 U.S.C. 1326. Reported by Kent Morlan Pedro Ramirez Covarrubias, age 53, a Mexican national, unlawfully present in Adair County, Oklahoma. on December $ (06-03-2026 - OK) |
| United States of America v. Andres Covarrubias |
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Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with illegal re-entry of a deported or removed aggravated alien. Reported by Kent Morlan $ (06-03-2026 - OK) |
| United States of America v. Claudiu Pesteleu |
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Las Cruces, New Mexico, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Reported by Kent Morlan Claudiu Pesteleu, 44, a Romanian national illegally present in the United States, admitted that from May 2023 through June 2024, he participa $ (06-03-2026 - NM) |
| State of Oklahoma v. C.J.C. |
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Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer Kent Morlan represented the Defendant felony drug trafficking, possession of drug paraphrenalia, driving without a license, displaying an improper tag, speeding, and making an unsafe lane charge. 63 O.S. 415 (B) provides: B. Except as otherwise authorized by the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substan $ (06-02-2026 - OK) |
| United States of America v. Jordan Trought |
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White Plainss, New York, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud and money laundering. Reported by Kent Morlan From at least 2015 through at least 2025, Jordan Trouoght and others engaged in a fraud scheme perpetrated against elderly victims (the “El $ (06-01-2026 - NY) |
| United States of America v. Pedram Fejal |
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Brooklyn, New York criminal defense lawyers represent the Defendants charged with tipping investor with nonpublic information for them to used to make money on stocks. Reported by Kent Morlan The first indictment charges the following 16 defendants with two counts of conspiracy to comm $ (06-01-2026 - MA) |
| State of Florida v. Open AI and Sam Altman |
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Carterville, Florida, commercial litigation lawyers represent the Defendants on four counts of deceptive and unfair trade practices, two counts of negligence, two counts of violating product liability laws, one count of fraudulent misrepresentation and another count of causing a public nuisance. Reported by More... $ (06-01-2026 - FL) |
| State of Oklahoma v. Robert Tryon |
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Pawnee, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with first-degree rape. Reported by Kent Morlan $ (06-01-2026 - OK) |
| State of Oklahoma v. Blake Jared Crawford |
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Stillwater, Oklahoma criminal Defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with domestic assault and battery, AFCF, in violation of 21 O.S. 644(j), which provides: J. Any person who commits any assault and battery by strangulation or attempted strangulation against an intimate partner or a family or household member as defined by Section 60.1 of Title 22 of the Oklahoma Statutes shall, upon $ (04-21-2026 - OK) |
| State of Oklahoma v. Coventry Mason Brown |
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Stillwater, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented the defendant charged with malicious injury to property in violation of 21 O.S.1760(2), which provides: A. Every person who maliciously injures, defaces or destroys any real or personal property not his or her own, in cases other than such as are specified in Section 1761 et seq. of this title, is guilty of: 1. A misdemeanor, if the da $ (05-22-2026 - OK) |
| State of Oklahoma v. C.D.O. |
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Stillwater, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with domestic assault and batter by strangulation in violation of 21 O.S. 644, which provides: A. Assault shall be punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding ninety (90) days, or by a fine not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or by both such fine and imprisonment. B. Assault and battery shal $ (05-30-2025 - OK) |
| State of Oklahoma v. S.D.C. |
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Stillwater, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with possession of a stolen vehicle. Reported by Kent Morlan $ (05-29-2025 - OK) |
| United States of America v. Kareem Pires |
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Providence, Rhode Island, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire. Reported by Kent Morlan Kareem Pires, 27, of Wareham, participated in a conspiracy to arrange for the killing of a federal witness connected to a pending feder $ (06-01-2026 - RI) |
| United States of America v. Terry Russ |
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Burlington, Vermont, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of a michine gun during the commission of a drug trafficking crime. Reported by Kent Morlan Terry Russ was connected with a firearm used in an incident in Springfield, Massachusetts, in which $ (06-01-2026 - VT) |
| United States of America v. Jason Johnson-Rivera a/k/a “Ouda” |
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Portland, Maine, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession and use of a firearm in drug trafficking crime. Reported by Kent Morlan Jason Johnson-Rivera a/k/a “Ouda” and Abrante fired at least five rounds from a 9mm handgun into another vehicle as par $ (06-01-2026 - ME) |
| United States of America v. Anthony Sanborn, a/k/a Andy Sanborn |
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Concord, New Hampshire, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with theft of government funds. Reported by Kent Morlan Anthony Sanborn owned and operated Win Win Win, a company that did business as Concord Casino. Sanborn applied for and obtained $844,000 in Economi $ (06-01-2026 - NH) |
| State of Florida v. Nathan Cooper |
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Miami, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with attempted murder. Reported by Kent Morlan Nathan Cooper accused of shooting Shawn Webster, a Miami-Dade County Water and Sewer employee over a conflict between their kids. Cooper fled from Florida and was $ (06-01-2026 - VA) |
| Commonwealth of Virginia v. Michael Puckett |
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Hillsville, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with murder. Reported by Kent Morlan Michael Puskett, accused of shooting and killing a police office performing a wellness check. $ (05-30-2026 - VA) |
| State of Missouri v. Ralph Jones, Jr. |
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Maryville, Missouri criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with first-degree kidnapping and child kidnapping. Reported by Kent Morlan Ralph Jones, Jr., age 47, Jones, who is not a biological parent or relative to two child, failed to follow a court order to turn the $ (05-31-2026 - MO) |
| United States of America v. Kayla Hartley |
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Portland, Oregon, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with violating the Clean Water Act . Reported by Kent Morlan Kayla Hartley, 36, of Portland, Oregon, discharged 500,000 gallons of industrial wastewater contaminated with hydrofluoric acid and toxic metals to t $ (05-20-2026 - OR) |
| United States of America v. Brian Graham |
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Denver, Colorado, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud. Reported by Kent Morlan Brian Graham, 49, Lithia Springs, Georgia, prepared and submitted fraudulent Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program (EIDL), and Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) applicat $ (05-29-2026 - CO) |
| United States of America v. Timothy Begay |
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Albuquerque, New Mexico, criminal Defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with second-degree murder in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1153. Reported by Kent Morlan On December 9, 2024, Timothy Begay, 39, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, was driving drunk when he crossed the ce $ (05-29-2026 - NM) |
| United States of America v. Christopher J. Ashby, et al. |
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Salt Lake City, Utah, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with mail and wire fraud. Reported by Kent Morlan Christopher J. Ashby, age 52, and others participated in a nationwide scheme to defraud victims out of more than $30 million by inducing them to invest in N $ (05-18-2026 - UT) |
| State of Florida v. Jordan Alexander Bustillo |
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Miami, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with grand theft, organized scheme to defraud and obtaining property by gaming. Reported by Kent Morlan Jordan Alexander Bustillo, age 20, accused for cheating people in an rigged street gambling game in downtown $ (05-29-2026 - FL) |
| State of Oklahoma v. Melanie Aldrich |
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Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with unauthorized use of a motor vehicle. Reported by Kent Morlan Melanie Aldrich, age 21, is accused of failing to return a rented U-Haul vehicle. She was stopped by a TPD officer, but drove away, ran a red li $ (05-29-2026 - OK) |
| State of Oklahoma v. Alan Alberto Olvera |
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Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer Michael French represented the Defendant charged with actual physical control while intoxicated in violation of 47 11-902, which provides: A. It is unlawful and punishable as provided for in this section for any person to drive, operate, or be in actua $ (05-27-2026 - OK) |
| State of Oklahoma v. Edward Lee Watson |
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Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with assault and batter with a dangerous weapon in violation of 21 O.S.645, which provides: Every person who, with intent to do bodily harm and without justifiable or excusable cause, commits any assault, battery, or assault and battery upon the person of another with any sharp or dangerous weapon, or who, without such c $ (05-27-2026 - OK) |
| State of Oklahoma v. Jennifer Shane Gilmore |
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Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with acquiring proceeds from drug activity in violation of 63 O.S. 2-503.1, which provides: A. It is unlawful for any person knowingly or intentionally to receive or acquire proceeds and to conceal such proceeds, or engage in transactions involving proceeds, known to be derived from any violation of the Uniform Controlled $ (05-27-2026 - OK) |
| State of Oklahoma v. Pedro De La Fuente |
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Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with first-degree robbery in violation of 21 O.S. 798, which provides: Any person guilty of robbery in the first degree shall be guilty of a Class A2 felony offense punishable by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary not less than ten (10) years. Reported by: More... $ (05-28-2026 - OK) |
| State of Oklahoma v. Clifford Lee Tyron |
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Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with cruelty to animals in violation of 21 O.S. 1685, which provides: Any person who shall willfully or maliciously torture, destroy or kill, or cruelly beat or injure, maim or mutilate any animal in subjugation or captivity, whether wild or tame, and whether belonging to the person or to another, or deprive any such an $ (05-27-2026 - OK) |
| State of Oklahoma v. Cody Chase Hawkins |
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Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with: Count # 1. Count as Filed: DU8TFENT5, AGGRAVATED TRAFFICKING OF ILLEGAL DRUGS, in violation of 63 O.S. 2-415D4 Date of Offense: 12/12/2024 HAWKINS, CODY CHASE Disposed: DEFERRED, 03/27/2025. Guilty Plea Count as Disposed: AMENDED TO TRAFFICKING OF ILLEGAL DRUGS(DU8TFENT1) Violation of 63 O.S. 2-415 HAWK $ (05-29-2026 - OK) |
| State of Arizona v. Connor Burgess |
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Phoenix, Arizona, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with three counts of Organized Retail Theft, a Class Four Felony. Connor Burgess (DOB 12/1993), committed a series of retail thefts targeting sporting goods retailers across the valley, resulting in more than $26,000 in losses. In one incident, he stole seven golf clubs valued at more than $4,200 from a Dick’s Sportin $ (05-28-2026 - AZ) |
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Los Angeles, California criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with battery and threatening to kill a stranger on the Third Street Promenade. Reported by Nay Min Tar, date of birth January 7, 1977, allegedly was driving on Broadway near the Third Street Promenade when he $ (05-28-2026 - CA) |
| United States of America v. Jose Manuel Perez |
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Los Angeles, California, pro se defendant defended himself without the help of a lawyer charged with smuggling goods into the United States. Reported by Kent Morlan Jose Manuel Perez, 34, of Oxnard, and other co-conspirators smuggled wildlife into the United States from Mexico and else $ (05-28-2026 - CA) |
| State of Oklahoma ex rel. Stitt v. City of Tulsa, et al. |
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Tulsa, Oklahoma: Oklahoma Supreme Court rules that agreement between the City of Tulsa and the Creek Nation is void. ¶1 On December 15, 2025, this Court stayed this proceeding in light of ongoing federal litigation in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma ("Northern District") between the Muscogee (Creek) Nation ("Nation") and Respondents. 1 That litigation ce $ (05-28-2026 - OK) |
| United States of America v. Philip Frederick Camino |
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Santa Ana, California, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Reported by Philip Frederick Camino, 46, of Culver City, California, submitted and caused to be submitted false and fraudulent applications to the United States Small Bu $ (05-28-2026 - CA) |
| State of Florida v. Nurideen Shabazz, aka DeenTheGreat |
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Miami, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with assault and battery. Reported by: Kent Morlan Twenty-five-year-old Misfits boxer Nurideen Shabazz, aka DeenTheGreat, accused of assaulting and battering woman on a yacht with whom he had a relationship after $ (05-28-2026 - FL) |
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