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United States of America v. Matthew Zook

Sioux Falls, South Dakota criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Attempted Enticement of a Minor.

United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced today that U.S. District Judge Camela C. Theeler has sentenced a man from Rapid City, South Dakota, convicted of Attempted Enticement of a Minor Using the Internet. The sentencing took place on September 29, 2025.

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United States of America v. Matthew Zook

Sioux Falls, SD criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Attempted Enticement of a Minor Using the Internet

United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced today that U.S. District Judge Camela C. Theeler has sentenced a man from Rapid City, South Dakota, convicted of Attempted Enticement of a Minor Using the Internet. The sentencing took place on September 29,

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United States of America v. James Kooima

Sioux Falls, South Dakota criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Production of Child Pornography.

James Kooima, age 47, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison, five years of supervised release, a special assessment to the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015 in the amount of $5,000, a special assessment to the Amy, Vicky, and Andy Child Pornography

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United States of America v. Abdisatar Ahmed Hassan

Minneapolis, Minnesota criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with one count of Attempting to Provide Material Support and Resources to a Designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, announced .

Abdisatar Ahmed Hassan, 23, pleaded guilty to one count of Attempting to Provide Material Support and Resources to a Designated Foreign Terrorist Organization.

“The

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State of Utah v. Charles Errill Lavadie

Salt Lake City, Utah, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with negligently operating a vehicle resulting in serious bodily injury for taking a painkiller and subsequently crashing his truck into a home, pinning a 10-year-old beneath his vehicle.

On July 3, 2020, South Salt Lake Police were called to investigate a vehicle that crashed into a home near 3300 South and

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United States of America v. Jason Cory Byroft

Muskogee, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of child pornography.


In 2021, law enforcement received information from the National Center for
Missing and Exploited Children that there was child pornography in a Dropbox
account belonging to Bycroft.1 Officers searched the Dropbox account and found a
variety of pornographic m

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United States of America v. Richard Paul Eccleston

Las Vegas, Nevada, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with receipt or possession of child pornography.

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United States of America v. Caleb French

Anchorage, Alaska, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distribution of child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. 2252(a)(2), which provides:

(a) Any person who—
(1) knowingly transports or ships using any means or facility of interstate or foreign commerce or in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce by any means including by computer or mails,

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United States of America v. Estate of Anthony Ray Lopez, Sr. v. City of Oontairo, et al.

San Bernardino, California personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiffs on 42 U.S.C. 1983 civil rights violation theory.

Anthony Ray Lopez Sr., Madeline Vasquez, and Josephine Guadalupe
Dominguez (collectively, “Decedents”) died on November 8, 2022, while in a storm
drain in the City of Ontario, County of San Bernardino, State of California, after
flood offi

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United States of America v. Kate Carson

Nashville, Tennessee criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with international parental kidnapping.

Kate Carson, 38, of Lewisburg, Tennessee was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for international parental kidnapping.

“Protecting vulnerable children from harm is the highest priority of our office,” said Acting United States Attorney Robert E.

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State of Arkansas v. Lonnie Grant, Yanpoul Soto Lopez, Mercado Tejerina, Lance Hutchings, Caleb Hanners, Charles Stidham and Patrick Parton

Fayetteville, Arkansas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with various sex crimes.



According to Fayetteville police, the three-day sting led to the following arrests:

57-year-old Lonnie Grant — internet stalking of a child
25-year-old Yanpoul Soto Lopez — internet stalking of a child and electronic facilitation of chil

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United States of America v. Brian Hinds

Louisville, KY criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distributing and possessing child pornography.

A federal criminal complaint and arrest warrant were issued on October 9, 2025, charging a Jefferson County high school teacher with distributing and possessing child pornography.

U.S. Attorney Kyle G. Bumgarner of the Western District of Kentucky, Special

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United States of America v. Sean Carson

Oxford, MS criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Coercing over 46 Minor Victims to Send Child Pornography.


A Tupelo, Mississippi man was sentenced today to 20 years in prison for using an online application to coerce minor females to send him sexually explicit images and videos.

According to court documents, Sean Carson, 24 years old, was getting gir

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United States of America v. Victor Manuel Castro-Huerta

Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta, 597 U.S. 629 (2022), was a United States Supreme Court case related to McGirt v. Oklahoma, decided in 2020. In McGirt, the Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. Congress never properly disestablished the Indian reservations of the Five Civilized Tribes in Oklahoma when granting its statehood, and thus almost half the state was still considered to be Native American land. As

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United States of America v. Steven Gaston Colburn

Greenville, MS criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Sex Trafficking of Minors

An Amory, Mississippi man was sentenced today to 15 years in prison for sex trafficking of minors.

According to court documents, Steven Gaston Colburn, 70 years old, was convicted of recruiting, enticing, maintaining, providing, and soliciting minors under the age of 14 years o

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United States of America v. Savin Seng aka “Two-Face”

Houston, TX criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with federal weapons violation

A 41-year-old illegal alien from Cambodia has been charged with unlawfully possessing a weapon following the shooting death of a woman in Victoria, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei.

Savin Seng aka “Two-Face” had illegally resided in Victoria and is now in

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United States of America v. Mohamad Asaad Alhashem

Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with

18 USC 2252(a)(2) and 2252(b)(1): Attempted Receipt and Distribution of Child Pornography; Forfeiture Allegation: 18 USC 2253 - Child Exploitation Forfieture

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State of Texas, v. Spencer Mandell Giron

Beaumont, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with failing to register as a sex offender.

Spencer Mandell Giron, 48, was taken into custody without incident following a traffic stop in Lake Charles, La. Working off investigative information, DPS CID Special Agents from Beaumont coordinated with the Lake Charles Police Department to locate Giron. That coordinati

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United States of America v. Sean Shaughnessy

Dallas, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with two drug-conspiracy counts, one
distribution count, and one possession of child pornography count, all arising
from his use of online dark web marketplaces to traffic narcotics,

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United States of America v. Richard Adamsky

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with one count of receipt and attempted receipt of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography.

United States Attorney David Metcalf announced that Richard Adamsky, 66, of Warminster, Pennsylvania, was arrested and charged by indictment with one count of receipt and attempted receip

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State of Oklahoma v. Daniil Borisovich Skalyga

Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer Terry Weber represented the Defendant charged with child abuse by injury.

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United States of America v .Peter Bardunias

Albany, New York criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempting to entice a minor to engage in prohibited sexual activity.

Peter Bardunias, age 59, of Clifton Park, New York, was charged today with attempting to entice a minor to engage in prohibited sexual activity. Acting United States Attorney John A. Sarcone III and Craig L. Tremaroli, Special Agent in Cha

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United States of America v. Christopher Lewis Tucker

Greensboro, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with receipt of child pornography.

Federal appellate courts review criminal sentences for reasonableness “under a deferential abuse-of-
discretion standard.” United States v. Williams, 5 F.4th 500, 505 (4th Cir. 2021).

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United States of America v. Peter Bardunias

Albany, New York criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempting to entice a minor to engage in prohibited sexual activity.


Peter Bardunias, age 59, of Clifton Park, New York, was charged today with attempting to entice a minor to engage in prohibited sexual activity. Acting United States Attorney John A. Sarcone III and Craig L. Tremaroli, Special Agent in

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State of Wisconsin v. David L. Hamlet

Janesville, Wisconsin, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Second-Degree Sexual Assautl of a child.

David Hamlet began staying in the family’s home in August of 2023, and by December of 2023,
he was assaulting the 14-year-old. The Beloit Police Department investigation – led by
Detective Amber Davies and Child Maltreatment Officer Dylann Ra

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