Madison, Wisconsin, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute narcotics. Between December 2023 and June 2024, Gonzalez served as the leader of a conspiracy that trafficked more than thirty kilograms of cocaine from the southern border to Dane County, Wisconsin. As part of the conspiracy, Gonzalez arranged for the cocaine to be smuggled from Mexico i

Lexington, Kentucky, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with money laundering conspiracy and a conspiracy to import controlled substances into the United States, including 400 grams or more of fentanyl and five kilograms or more of cocaine. From approximately June to December 2017, Israel Ortiz Velasco, 33, agreed with others to distribute fentanyl and cocaine, knowing an

Albany, New York, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possessing firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime and possessing firearms as a convicted felon. Kwahpreme Mitchell, age 34, of Watervliet, New York, admitted to receiving firearms from Jonathon Combs and Martin Taft that they had stolen from Calamity Jane’s Firearms and Fine Shoes, a federally licens

Beaumont, Texas, criminal defense lawyer Alejandro Macias represented the Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute drugs. On April 2, 2024, Luis Emmanuel Quevedo-Vasquez, a Mexican national illegally in the United States, and Carmen Guadalupe Diaz, 26, of Georgia, were stopped for a traffic violation in Nacogdoches County. During the stop, law enforcement noticed an open con

Wilmington, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possessing fentanyl and cocaine while armed and with the intent to distribute the drugs, and felon in possession of a firearm. On July 13, 2023, military police found Muwsay Ibn Ibrahim Tulu, of Fayetteville, passed out behind the wheel of a running vehicle in the middle of the road on Fort Bragg with dru

Los Angeles, California, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with drug trafficking. Ryan Wedding, Olympic snowboarder turned Wedding, who competed for his home country in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, has been accused of running a major drug trafficking network that moved cocaine from Colombia through Mexico to the U.S. and Canada. Ryan James Wedding, 44,

New York City, New York, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with conspiring to import cocaine into the United States and related weapons charges. Carlos Orense Azocar and his drug trafficking organization distributed tons of cocaine destined for importation into the United States. ORENSE AZOCAR helped transport, receive, and distribute loads of cocaine ranging from hu

Burlington, Vermont, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with two counts of distribution of cocaine and cocaine base and one count of possessing cocaine with intent to distribute it. Dawayne Catchings, 31, of Detroit, Michigan, was indicted by a grand jury. Catchings distributed cocaine and cocaine base on December 23, 2025, and December 30, 2025, at a location in Vermo

Respondent Gant was arrested for driving on a suspended license, handcuffed, and locked in a patrol car before officers searched his car and found cocaine in a jacket pocket. The Arizona trial court denied his motion to suppress the evidence, and he was convicted of drug offenses. Reversing, the State Supreme Court distinguished New York v. Belton, 453 U.S. 454, 101 S.Ct. 2860, 69 L.Ed.2d 768—wh

Mobile, Alabama, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with drug-trafficking organization responsible for distributing hundreds of pounds of cocaine and pure methamphetamine. Braxton A. Thomas, 38, led an extensive drug-trafficking organization (“DTO”) from 2021 to 2024. Thomas’s DTO distributed various drugs, including cocaine and pure methamphetamine, in the Mobile

Atlanta, Georgie, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiring to manufacture and distribute cocaine that he knew would be imported into the United States. Agents identified Roberto Najera Gutierrez as a then-high-ranking member of the cartel who allegedly led and coordinated the transportation of multi-kilogram quantities of cocaine by boat from Colombia and Ec

Kansas City, Missouri, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with distributing drugs, selling firearms illegally, and possession of a machine gun. Alvarez-Rubio made his first appearance in federal court after his arrest on January 12, 2026. The indictment alleges that on July 22, 2025, the Alvarez-Rubio distributed cocaine. On July 29, 2025, Alvarez-Rubio distributed co

Little Rock, Arkansas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. On October 9, 2024, Chauncey Slay, 46, of North Little Rock, was indicted by a federal grand jury on one count of possession with intent to distribute over 50 grams of methamphetamine. On June 30, 2025, Slay pleaded guilty to the indictment. Chief Judge Bak

Cincinnati, Ohio, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with five counts of sex trafficking minors, sexually exploiting children and illegally possessing a firearm as a previously convicted felon. Kelly Richards, 44, drugged, raped, abused, photographed and sold two teenage girls. He held them for days in a one-bedroom apartment the appeals court called “a house of horrors

Dallas, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a Schedule II controlled drug. Luis Robert Velazquez, 39, of Cockrell Hill, Texas, pled guilty in July 2025, to a drug conspiracy in which he admitted to trafficking narcotics for Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG). According to plea documents, in the span of l

New Bern, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyers Kelly Dagger and Paul Sun represented the Defendant charged with possession of a machine gun in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. After officers arrested Shawn Tobin Locklear, Jr., age 20, for armed robbery while using a gun, a state court judge released him in March 2022. A few months later in November 2022, while Locklear roamed free o

Norfolk, Virginia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute cocaine and being a felon in possession of a firearm. On Nov. 1, 2024, law enforcement intercepted a parcel, shipped from California, containing over three kilograms of cocaine. Investigators performed a controlled delivery of the parcel to the intended address in Portsmouth, a

Capbell, West Virginia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute quantities of cocaine, fentanyl, and cocaine base, also known as “crack.” On January 16, 2025, law enforcement officers executed a search warrant at John Ladelle Puryear’s apartment in Huntington and seized approximately 299 grams of cocaine, 10 grams of fentanyl an

Huntington, West Virginia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of firearm by a convicted felon. On May 22, 2025, Johnson provided a Smith & Wesson model M&P Shield M2.0 9mm pistol that was sold to a confidential informant in Huntington. As part of his guilty plea, Maurice Kelly Johnson, also known as “Reese,” 58, of Huntington, admitted to possessing th

Scranton, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged distribution of fentanyl resulting in serious bodily injury and death and four counts of distribution of fentanyl and cocaine. Dimitris Smith, Jr., age 48, of East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, distributed a deadly dose of fentanyl on December 11, 2023, in East Stroudsburg, Monroe County. A 38 year old female died

Mobile, Alabama, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute Cocaine and Heroin. Following a trial in September 2025, a federal jury convicted an Arkansas man of conspiracy to distribute cocaine. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Nicholas Ferlando Haynie, 45, of Camden, Arkansas, was a member of a dru

Atlanta, Georgia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distributing controlled substances and possession of a machine gun. On August 23, 2022, Victor Valente Reynoso, an illegal alien from Mexico, sold 536 fentanyl pills outside a gas station in Clayton County, Georgia. Following that deal, Reynoso and his conspirators arranged to sell 5,000 fentanyl pills at a church

Pensacola, Florida, criminal defense lawyer John Wilkins represented the Defendant charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. On May 31, 2025, deputies with the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle occupied by the Ernest Lee Thomas II, 35, of Pensacola, Florida. During the traffic stop, a search of the vehicle uncovered a loaded black .45-cali

Salt Lake City, Utah, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distributing Alpha-yrrolidinohexanophenone, commonly referred to as “Alpha PHP,” or “bath salts. Mountazar Altalibi, 36, of Salt Lake County, Utah, and Jaafar Altalibi, 44, both of Salt Lake County, were charged with distributing Alpha-Pyrrolidinohexanophenone, commonly referred to as “Alpha PHP,” or

Sioux City, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with trafficking fentanyl and illegally possessing firearms. Jason S. Thompson, 50, was found guilty of one count each of possessing fentanyl with the intent to distribute, possessing firearms in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime, and being a felon in possession of firearms. In the early morning hours of Aug.