Contraband Law
 
United States of America v. Jeremy Dewight Foreman

Fayetteville, Arkansas criminal defense attorney represented defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute PCP.

Jeremy Dewight Foreman, 39, was an inmate at the Mack Alford Correctional Center in Atoka, Oklahoma, in late 2020/early 2021. In October 2020, from his prison cell, Foreman orchestrated the sale of two ounces of PCP to a confidential source working with the Drug Enforcement Ad... More...
   $0 (02-17-2022 - AR)

United States of America v. Rodney Crowley

Portland, Maine criminal defense attorney represented defendant charged with possession of child pornography.

Rodney Crowley, 33, pleaded guilty on August 31, 2021.

In August 2019, investigators with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) executed search warrants for Crowley's residence and person. HSI had obtained information from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) regardi... More...
   $0 (02-15-2022 - ME)

United States of America v. Willie M. Burks, III

Montgomery, Alabama criminal defense attorney represented defendant charged with failing to stop an officer under his command from assaulting an inmate at ADOC’s Elmore Correctional Facility.

The evidence at trial established that on Feb. 16, 2019, former Correctional Sergeant Ulysses Oliver Jr., Burks’ subordinate, went to an observation room holding two handcuffed and un... More...
   $0 (02-07-2022 - AL)

United States of America v. Andre Deaveon Reese

Shreveport, Louisiana criminal defense lawyer represented wire fraud.

Andrew Deaveon Reese, age 32, pleaded guilty to was serving time in the Georgia Department of Corrections at the time he conspired to commit wire fraud while in prison.

while serving time in the Autry State Prison (Autry) in Georgia in 2015, and continuing through July 2020, Reese participated in a scheme to d... More...
   $0 (02-03-2022 - LA)

United States of America v. José Reyes-Valdivia United States of America v. Jeffri Dávila-Reyes

Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendants with two counts of trafficking cocaine in violation of the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act charges.


These consolidated appeals arise
from the U.S. Coast Guard's interdiction of a small speed boat in
the western Caribbean Sea and the ... More...
   $0 (01-22-2022 - MA)

United States of America v. Geraldo Rodriguez-Diaz

Williamsport, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with possessing a cellphone in prison.

Geraldo Rodriguez-Diaz, a 27-year-old inmate at the Low Security Correctional Institution, Allenwood (LSCI Allenwood), pleaded guilty to possessing a cellphone in prison.

According to United States Attorney John C. Gurganus, on May 10, 2021, an LSCI Allenwood ... More...
   $0 (01-21-2022 - PA)

United States of America v. Carlos Reyes, Jr.

Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine, and one count of possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine charges.



I. Background


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State of Oklahoma v. MICHAEL DEANGELO WHITED

El abogado de defensa criminal de Tulsa, Oklahoma representa al Acusado, acusado de POSSESSION OF CONTRABAND BY AN INMAT

Count # 1. Count as Filed: CWEDJ, POSSESSION OF CONTRABAND BY AN INMATE, in violation of 57 O.S. 21 (B)
Date of Offense: 11/07/2021
Party Name Disposition Information
WHITED, MICHAEL DEANGELO Disposed: DEFERRED, 01/14/2022. Guilty Plea
Count as Disp... More...
   $0 (01-14-2022 - ok)

United States of America v. Anibal Navarro

San Diego, California criminal defense attorney represented defendant charged with smuggling methamphetamine, heroin, marijuana and cell phones into state prison.

Navarro pleaded guilty, admitting that he was part of a network of 12 individuals both inside and outside the prison that smuggled in contraband and illegal narcotics. All the other defendants have pleaded guilty and been senten... More...
   $0 (01-13-2022 - CA)

United States of America v. Thomas Owens Child Sexual Predator

Chicago, IL - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with distribution and possession of child pornography charges.



I. Background
A. The BitTorrent Network and Torrential Downpour
Receptor
BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing network that is
used to distribute large amounts of data over the Interne... More...
   $0 (01-11-2022 - IL)

United States of America v. Michael Perryman

Chicago, IL - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with
possessing fentanyl with intent to distribute, possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and possessing a firearm while a convicted felon charges.




In Spring 2018, as part of a large antidrug operation, the
Drug Enforcement ... More...
   $0 (01-10-2022 - IL)

United States of America v. Xavier Elizondo and David Salgado

Chicago, IL - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendants with conspiracy and theft charges.



A. Factual Background



The criminal scheme. Elizondo and Salgado were Chicago
Police Department (“CPD”) officers assigned to the 10th
district team that worked gang and narcotics ... More...
   $0 (01-10-2022 - IL)

United States of America v. Jacob Matthew Medina

Phoenix, Arizona criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute drugs.

Jacob Matthew Medina, 29, of Glendale, Arizona, was charged with conspiring to possess fentanyl and heroin with intent to distribute, in connection with an Internet-based drug trafficking operation.

In November 2018, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service began an investigatio... More...
   $0 (01-09-2022 - AZ)

United States of America v. Michael White, Jr.

Cincinnati, Ohio - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm.



Muskegon County Detective T. Schmidt investigated illegal drug trafficking in western
Michigan as an undercover agent. While in a car with a suspected drug dealer named Jared
Conkle in early December ... More...
   $0 (01-08-2022 - OH)

United States of America v. Josh Small and Joni Johnson

Cincinnati, Ohio - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with aiding and abetting a kidnapping and conspiracy to commit kidnapping charges.



Small and Johnson were indicted for aiding and abetting a kidnapping and
conspiracy to commit kidnapping in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1201(a)(1), (c). At trial, Linda
Spo... More...
   $0 (01-07-2022 - OH)

United States of America v. Demetrius Brooks

Cincinnati, Ohio - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with being a felon in possession of a firearm charge.



Because the district court denied Brooks’s motion to suppress and the jury convicted him,
we recount the facts in the light most favorable to the prosecution. See United States v. Maya,
966 F.3d 493,... More...
   $0 (01-06-2022 - OH)

State of Oklahoma v. Phillip Stephens

Antlers, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with:

Count # 1. CONTRABAND (DRUGS/ PARAPHENALIA) BY INMATE, in violation of 57 O.S. 21 (A)
Date of Offense: 10/05/2021
Party Name Disposition Information
Stephens, Phillip Disposed: CONVICTION, 01/05/2022. Guilty Plea
Count as Disposed: CONTRABAND (DRUGS/ PARAPHENALIA) BY INMATE(CWEDJ)
Violat... More...
   $0 (01-05-2022 - OK)

United States of America v. Terry Ray

Denver, CO - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a felon in possession of explosives charge.



Custer County (Oklahoma) Deputy Dylan King arrested Defendant for a traffic
violation.2
While searching Defendant, Deputy King discovered methamphetamine.
Deputy King asked Defendant whether he had any other... More...
   $0 (12-20-2021 - CO)

United States of America v. Oscar Almanza-Vigil

Denver, CO - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a “selling or distributing” methamphetamine charge.



Born in Chihuahua in 1984, Almanza-Vigil is a Mexican citizen. In 1993,
eight-year-old Almanza-Vigil and his family trekked across the Mexico–United
States border, without documents and without gove... More...
   $0 (12-19-2021 - CO)

STATE OF OKLAHOMA, Plaintiff, v. JESSE RAY SAUNDERS, Defendant.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with POSSESSION OF CONTRABAND IN A PENAL INSTITUTION, in violation of 57 O.S. 21 (A).

Count # 1. Count as Filed: CWEDJ, POSSESSION OF CONTRABAND IN A PENAL INSTITUTION, in violation of 57 O.S. 21 (A)
Date of Offense: 12/11/2013
Party Name Disposition Information
SAUNDERS, JESSE RAY Disposed: DE... More...
   $0 (12-14-2021 - ok)

United States of America v. Roland Pulliam

Chicago, IL - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a possessing a firearm as a felon charge.



In July 2015, Chicago Police Department Officers Victor
Alcazar and Jason Guziec responded to a dispatch call that
four black men were selling drugs near a fence a few blocks
from the officers’ loca... More...
   $0 (12-10-2021 - IL)

United States of America v. William Brett Brownell

Pensacola, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with possession of contraband by a federal prisoner and attempting to escape from confinement.

Between October 2019 and June 2020, Brownell obtained, possessed, and distributed to fellow prisoners at the Federal Prison Camp in Pensacola various prohibited items, including marijuana, alcohol, phones, SD cards and read... More...
   $0 (12-03-2021 - FL)

State of Kansas v. Randy Allen Ballantine

Topeka, KS criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexual exploitation of a child.





The State charged Ballantyne with 25 counts of sexual exploitation of a child
under K.S.A. 2018 Supp. 21-5510(a)(2), which prohibits "possessing... More...
   $0 (12-01-2021 - KS)

United States of America v. Derrick Baer

New York, NY - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a one count of knowing receipt and attempt to receive child pornography and one count of knowing possession of material that contained at least three images of child pornography charges.



In May 2010, Baer reported the death of his then-girlfriend, Lorianne... More...
   $0 (11-30-2021 - NY)

United States of America v. Ferney Salas Torres and Saul Calonjes Salas

New York, NY - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant indicted for conspiring to manufacture, distribute, or possess a controlled substance on a vessel.



The facts are drawn from the presentence reports (the "PSRs") to the
extent the findings were adopted by the district court and from the evidence
presen... More...
   $0 (11-26-2021 - ny)

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