Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition and failure to update his sex offender registration.

According to the plea agreement and other court records, Lionel Vallo, age 39, who previously was convicted of aggravated sexual abuse in Indian Country in 2003, failed to update his sex offender re... More...   $0 (05-26-2023 - NM)

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with second-degree murder in Indian country.

Perry Maryboy, age 59, of Bluff, Utah, was accused of unlawfully shooting and killing a man during a roadside argument on April 3, 2018.

Maryboy, who was parked on the side of the road at the intersection of Country Road 443 and Summerhouse Road, escalated an ar... More...   $0 (05-19-2023 - UT)

Muskogee, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with one count of Aggravated Sexual Abuse in Indian Country.

The United States presented evidence that on July 21, 2021, in McAlester, Oklahoma, the defendant, Dennis Hebert, age 38, of Phenix City, Alabama, engaged in a sexual act with a child under the age of twelve. The government also called another witness who... More...   $0 (05-17-2023 - OK)

Seattle, Washington criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with violation of the Indian Arts and Crafts Act (IACA) by representing himself as a Native American artist, when he had no tribal enrollment or heritage.

The investigation of Jerry Van Dyke, age 67, from Seattle, began in February 2019, when the Indian Arts and Crafts Board received a complaint that Van Dyke was re... More...   $0 (05-17-2023 - WA)

Bismarck, North Dakota criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with soliciting and accepting bribes and kickbacks from a contractor providing construction services on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota, which is the home of the MHA Nation.

Randall Judge Phelan, 58, of Mandaree, North Dakota, was an elected representative on the Tribal Business Council – t... More...   $0 (05-16-2023 - ND)

Muskogee, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with Aggravated Sexual Abuse in Indian Country, which is punishable by not less than thirty years imprisonment.

Government prosecutors alleged that beginning in 2003 and continuing until 2010, Bryan Udale Jones, age 63, of Stilwell, Oklahoma, engaged in sexual acts with a child who had not yet attained the age of 12... More...   $0 (05-12-2023 - OK)

Salt Lake City, Utah personal injury lawyer sued Defendants on negligence and breach of fiduciary theories claiming that Navarro-a medical assistant at Planned Parenthood-had publicized Aguila's private health information and that Planned Parenthood was vicariously liable for Navarro's actions. Aguila also made direct claims against Planned Parenthood for negligent hiring, training, and supervisio... More...   $0 (05-11-2023 - Ut)

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with multiple counts of extortion and cyberstalking a Utah victim and her family.

Jordy Julian Alvarez, 28, a Texas resident, repeatedly harassed and intimidated the female victim to provide an explicit video or he would release to the public compromising photos and videos of the victim already in his possession. ... More...   $0 (05-09-2023 - UT)

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with assault with a dangerous weapon with intent to do bodily harm in Indian Country in violation of 18 USC 1151, 1153, and 113(a)(3).... More...   $0 (05-08-2023 - OK)

Juneau, Alaska criminal defense lawyers represented Defendants charged with conspiracy to violate the Indian Arts and Crafts Act for crimes committed when they owned and operated several businesses in Ketchikan, Alaska, involving the sale of Philippine produced stone carvings and wood totem poles as authentic Alaska Native produced artwork.

Between April 2016 through December 8, 2021, C... More...   $0 (05-08-2023 - AK)

Milwaukee, Wisconsin criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with involuntary manslaughter in Indian Country.

On April 18, 2019, officers, firefighters, and EMS were dispatched to a two-vehicle, head-on crash on CTH VV near St. Michael’s Cemetery on the Menominee Indian Reservation. When officials arrived at the scene, they found two SUVs—a Dodge Durango and a Kia Sorren... More...   $0 (05-05-2023 - WI)

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer representing Defendant charged with second-degree murder in Indian Country.

Alex Ray Scott, age 27, is accused of killing Robin Lee Skocdopole, age 63, in 2019.

Defendant walked into a New York Police precinct and confessed to killing Skocdopole, whose remains were found in a creek near 17900 East 131st Street South in Broken Arrow on May ... More...   $0 (05-04-2023 - OK)

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with eluding a police officer in Indian Country, failure to stop at an accident in Indian Country and theft in Indian Country.

Courtney Rae Jordan, age 36, pled guilty to one county of eluding police officers in Indian Country.

Defendant is a former assistant solicitor general for the Oklahoma Attorney General'... More...   $0 (05-04-2023 - OK)

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with first-degree murder in Indian Country.

Harvey Dale Murphy was accused killing Kimmy Jo Stipes, age 52, with a hammer in the couples home in Mayes County on October 31, 2019.
... More...   $0 (05-04-2023 - OK)

Muskogee, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with murder in Indian Country; using, caring, brandishing and discharging a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence; and causing the death of a person during the course of a violation of title 18 U.S.C. 924(e).

in April of 2019, Coker Dean Barker, age 36, brutally attacked and killed a 43-year-old Semin... More...   $0 (04-20-2023 - OK)

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with first-degree murder in Indian Country.

Lance Dylan Gatzman, age 25, was accused of stabbing Christian Jones, age 21, on October 24, 2019, near Third Street and Norfolk, in a dispute over a bicycle.

Defendant admitted that he stabbed Jones multiple times with a knife.

Gatzman was initially charged ... More...   $0 (04-14-2023 - OK)

Marquette, Michigan criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant who was charged with drug trafficking.

Between March and December 2021, Elizabeth Jean Decota, a/k/a "Biz," and others brought significant quantities of methamphetamine, heroin, and fentanyl from Detroit and distributed those drugs throughout the western half of the Upper Peninsula. The conspirators based their operations... More...   $0 (04-12-2023 - MI)

Pierre, South Dakota criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with assault and battery in Indian Country resulting in serious personal Injury.

On the evening of May 16, 2022, Ramon Louis Bagola, age 24, and another individual assaulted the victim in the stairwell of the Evergreen Apartments building in Eagle Butte, knocking the victim unconscious and causing a subdural hemato... More...   $0 (04-07-2023 - SD)

Great Falls, Montana criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.

on Nov. 19, 2021, Calvin Lame Bull Juneau, age 37, and co-defendant, Dale Ray Racine, entered a residence in Browning, On the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, and assaulted the victim, identified as John Doe, who was sleeping in a bedroom. Doe awoke and saw Juneau and... More...   $0 (04-06-2023 - MT)

Muskogee, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with Aggravated Sexual Abuse in Indian Country.

In June 2016, Joseph Stanley Harjo, age 40, of Muskogee, Oklahoma, sexually abused a six-year-old child. Days later, the child disclosed the abuse and provided further details during a forensic interview. Five additional witnesses testified at trial that Harjo sexual... More...   $0 (03-30-2023 - OK)

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with leaving the scene of a personal injury accident in Indian Country and driving under the influence of an intoxicating substance (DUI) in Indian Country.... More...   $0 (03-30-2023 - OK)

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer Scott Troy represented Defendant charged with failing to register as a sex offender.

18 U.S.C. 2250 provides:

(a) In General.—Whoever—
(1) is required to register under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act;
(2)
(A) is a sex offender as defined for the purposes of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification A... More...   $0 (03-30-2023 - OK)

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with misprison of a felony.

18 U.S.C. 4 provides:

Whoever, having knowledge of the actual commission of a felony cognizable by a court of the United States, conceals and does not as soon as possible make known the same to some judge or other person in civil or military authority under the United States, shall b... More...   $0 (03-30-2023 - OK)

Milwaukee, Wisconsin criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with assault committed in Indian Country.

On July 29, 2022, officers with the Menominee Tribal Police Department responded to a 911 call from a residence in Keshena, which is on the Menominee Indian Reservation. The caller reported seeing Stephen Teller, Jr., age 41, a former resident of the Menominee Reservation,... More...   $0 (03-29-2023 - WI)

Seattle, Washington criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with drug trafficking while armed with multiple firearms.

Santos Gutierrez-Fosella, age 24, of Mount Vernon, Washington, was indicted with two others on March 30, 2022. Robert Johnny was purchasing pills from Gutierrez-Fosella. He was sentenced in January 2023, to six years in prison. A third co-defendant, Steven Lo... More...   $0 (03-29-2023 - WA)