| State of Oklahoma v. Christian Love |
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Okmulgee, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with child neglect. $ (03-01-2026 - OK) |
| The State of Arizona v. Jason Lee Cepeda |
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Phoenix, Arizona, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with public sexual indecency to a minor, furnishing obscene or harmful items to minors, molestation of a child, and five counts of sexual conduct with a minor. In 2022, Cepeda committed crimes that involved oral, penile, vaginal, and masturbatory conduct with four children under the age of fifteen. After the events oc $ (02-27-2026 - AZ) |
| State of Alaska v. Brandon Michael Dale McGuffey |
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Ketchikan, Alaska, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of child pornography. $ (02-27-2026 - AK) |
| State of Minnesota v. Hernan Cortes-Valencia |
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexual assault against a child, sexual assault-carnal abuse and four DUIs. Hernan Cortes-Valencia was charged with sexual assault. $ (01-22-2015 - MN) |
| United States of America v. Jennifer Marie Stately |
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with premeditated murder of minor A and B and murder in the course of committing child abuse. On March 15, 2024, Jennifer Marie Stately, 37, attacked and killed two of her young children. The evidence at trial showed that Stately, when alone with the children at their home on Red Lake Nation, assaulted the boys c $ (02-27-2026 - MN) |
| United States of America v. Cleveland Stephens, a/k/a “Schmitty” |
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute controlled substances. Cleveland Stephens, a/k/a “Schmitty,” age 63, from Cedar Rapids, sold pounds of methamphetamine to multiple people. In October 2022, he was in a car that was stopped in Davenport, Iowa. Law enforcement officers searched the car and found cocaine base, cocaine $ (02-27-2026 - IA) |
| United States of America v. Shawn Christopher Powell |
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Council Bluffs, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempted enticement of a minor. Shawn Christopher Powell, 52, communicated with a person he believed was a 13-year-old female between May and August 2025. Powell sent messages about wanting to engage in sex acts with the minor. In August 2025, Powell traveled from Tennessee to Iowa with the intent to meet up w $ (02-27-2026 - IL) |
| United States of America v. Joseph Jared St. Pierre |
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Benton, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with production of child pornography. Law enforcement officers responded to a report of sexual assault in July 2024 when the mother of a 13-year-old minor discovered a video on the minor’s cell phone of the minor engaging in sexual acts with St. Pierre. “Thanks to the dedication of HSI agents, this predator h $ (02-27-2026 - IL) |
| United States of America v. Thomas Patrick Shannon |
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Grand Rapids, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with exploitation of children From 2019 through 2024, Thomas Shannon, 44, previously of Byron Center, exploited at least eighteen children online, ranging in ages from 12 to 17. Police discovered Shannon’s crimes when a16-year-old minor in North Carolina reported that she had been sexually exploited on Snapcha $ (02-26-2026 - MI) |
| United States of America v. Oleksandr Didenko |
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Washington, D.C. criminal defense lawyer represented the defendant wire fraud and identity theft. Oleksandr Didenko, 29, of Kyiv, Ukraine, fraudulently inflicted systemic and deliberate financial harm on U.S. companies and American citizens to benefit not only himself, but a hostile nation state,” said Assistant Director Roman Rozhavsky of the FBI’s Counterintelligence and Espionage Divisio $ (02-26-2026 - TN) |
| United States of America v. Evan Christopher Lee |
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Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with receipt and distribution of child pornography. While FBI agents were conducting an undercover operation online in 2024, agents discovered an IP address sharing files that contained child sexual abuse material. After further investigation, agents executed a search warrant at Evan Christopher Lee, 36's, apartment and $ (02-23-2026 - OK) |
| United States of America v. Celso Rivas-Gonzalez |
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Del Rio, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with illegal re-entry into the United States by a previously removed alien. In 2024, Rivas-Gonzalez was convicted of both illegal re-entry and indecency with a child. Prior to that, in 2021, he was convicted of a harassment felony that had been reduced from one count of aggravated sexual assault of a child. Rivas-Gonzalez $ (02-18-2026 - TX) |
| United States of America v. Hannah Kinchen |
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Baton Rouge, Louisiana, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with sexual exploitation of children and producing child pornography. Beginning in at least July of 2020 and continuing through at least February 2021, Hannah Kinchen, age 41, of Gonzales, Louisiana, communicated with a photographer who self-identified as a pedophile, using the Internet, about the minor victim’ $ (02-25-2026 - LA) |
| United States of America v. Brian Paul Desormeaux, Amy Desormeaux Hernandez, and Lenzi Desormeaux Babineaux |
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Lafayette, Louisiana, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with attempt and conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud. Desormeaux was the executive director of Regional Nutrition Assistance, Inc., a non-profit sponsoring organization for the Child and Adult Care Food Program, a federal program operated by the USDA and administered by the Louisiana Department of Education. $ (02-25-2026 - LA) |
| State of Texas v. Andrew Wayne Roark |
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Dallas, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the charged with child abuse. Andrew Wayne Roark, 48, for his 2000 injury to a child conviction after an extensive and careful re-evaluation of the evidence by the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office’s Conviction Integrity Unit (CIU). Changes in science regarding the mechanism of the injury, which the Court of Criminal Appeals opined w $ (11-18-2025 - TX) |
| United States of America v. Ivan Hernandez-Ortiz |
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Dallas, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with illegaly reentry. Ivan Hernandez-Ortiz, 36, residing in Dallas, Texas, illegally entered the United States approximately five times, was granted voluntary return on three occasions, and was formally removed twice. Previously, he was federally prosecuted for illegal reentry into the United States in the Southern Distr $ (02-25-2026 - TX) |
| In the Matter of J.S., Jr., Alleged Deprived Child |
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Sapulpa, Oklahoma, family law lawyer represented the Defendant in a parental termination case. In this deprived child proceeding, Appellant, Asheley Teague, the biological mother of J.S., JR. (JSJ), the minor child, appeals from the district court's order terminating her parental rights. The State of Oklahoma (State) moved to terminate Mother's parental rights, Mother waived a jury trial, and t $ (02-22-2026 - OK) |
| The State of Oklahoma v. Jesus Efren Pena |
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Vinita, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with acquiring proceeds from drug activity and misdemeanor possession of marijuana. Pena's rental car was stopped on I-44 in Craig County by Trooper Caleb Cole for a traffic violation on August 31, 2022. Trooper Cole's partner, Trooper Aaron Lockney, deployed his drug dog for an open-air sniff and the dog alerted on the $ (02-22-2026 - ok) |
| State of Nevada v. Cythia Roes |
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Reno, Nevada, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with child abuse and neglect. Cythia Roes. age 53, accused of child abuse and neglect charges after an investigation into a three-year-old child who fell from a moving vehicle. $ (02-22-2026 - NV) |
| United States of America v. Craig Scott Valdez |
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Anchorage, Alaska, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sex trafficking a minor, exploitation of a child, production of child porn, and coercion and enticement of a minor. Craig Scott Valdez, 36, used the popular social media application Snapchat to identify, groom and entice juvenile females in Alaska for the purposes of sexual exploitation. The indictment charges thi $ (02-22-2026 - AK) |
| United States of America v. Jun Wang |
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Syracuse, New York criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to launder monetary InstrumentsJun Wang, age 63, a Chinese national and lawful permanent resident of the United States, redeemed $2,285,039.81 in gift cards originally purchased by defrauded victims throughout the United States (including in the Northern District of New York). Wang, who received the gift $ (02-22-2026 - NY) |
| United States of America v. Renee Hoberman, a/k/a “Rina” |
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Central Islip, New York, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with receipt and distribution of child pornography and possession of child pornography. Renee Hoberman, age 38, of Plainview, New York, used encrypted social media messaging applications to upload, receive, and trade digital videos and images depicting minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct, including seve $ (02-22-2026 - NY) |
| C.B. et al. v. Henry County School District |
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Atlanta, Georgia, civil rights lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on an ndividuals with Disabilities Education Act violation theory. C.B. is a student with Down syndrome who attends school in the Henry County School District in Georgia. Because C.B. has Down syndrome, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act required Henry County to develop an individualized education program $ (02-21-2026 - GA) |
| State of Oklahoma v. Julie Dawn Rains |
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Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with: Count # 1. Count as Filed: CHEND, CHILD ENDANGERMENT (APC/DUI) DRIVER, in violation of 21 O.S. 852.1 Date of Offense: 12/28/2022 RAINS, JULIE DAWN Disposed: DEFERRED, 02/18/2026. Guilty Plea Count as Disposed: CHILD ENDANGERMENT (APC/DUI) DRIVER(CHEND) Violation of 21 O.S. 852.1 Count # 2. Count as File $ (02-14-2026 - OK) |
| State of Oklahoma v. Gerson David Diaz Santos |
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Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with: Count # 1. Count as Filed: CF.21.644.F, DOMESTIC ASSAULT AND BATTERY RESULTING IN GREAT BODILY INJURY, in violation of 21 O.S. 644.F, Class: B3 Date of Offense: 12/26/2025 Party Name Disposition Information Diaz Santos, Gerson David Disposed: CONVICTION, 02/18/2026. Guilty Plea Count as Disposed: DOMESTIC $ (02-18-2026 - OK) |
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