Knoxville, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distribution of child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(2). On February 21, 2025, investigators with the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations – Internet Crimes Against Children (HSI-ICAC) Task Force received a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited

Birmingham, Alabama, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempted sex trafficking of a minor and possession with intent to distribute meth. On August 9, 2024, a West Alabama Human Trafficking Task Force (WAHTTF) undercover (UC) officer posted an advertisement on a commercial sex website posing as a 19-year-old female in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The following day, Kenneth

Sacramento, California, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distribution of child pornography. Orest Shaynyuk, 33, of Sacramento, was accused of possession of CSAM. After serving his sentence and while on supervised release, his probation officer found him to be in possession of an iPhone that contained CSAM. Simultaneously, the Internet Crimes Against Children Task

San Diego, California, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with participating in an international fraud and money laundering scheme. Jing Guo, age 36, of San Gabrie, California participated in an international fraud and money laundering scheme that tricked more than 40 elderly victims out of more than $1.2 million. According to charging documents, Guo and others used

Sioux City, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexual exploitation of children and possession of pornography. Bryce White, 42, from Dow City, Iowa, admitted that between August 1, 2023, and August 2024, he coerced minor females into sending him depictions of themselves engaged in sexually explicit conduct. White used Snapchat to pose as a minor and solicited

Providence, Rhode Island, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempted inducement of a minor to engage in Illicit activities, interstate travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual activities, and transportation of child pornography. Paul Fredericks engaged in online communications with an individual he believed to be the father of nearly 10-year-old girl and arra

Tallahassee, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempting to entice a minor to engage in sexual activity and interstate travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct after previously pleading guilty in federal court. Between April 10, 2025, and April 12, 2025, detectives of the Tallahassee Police Department and the Leon County Sheriff’s Office,

Jacksonville, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with using his cellphone and the internet to attempt to entice an 11-year-old child to engage in sexual activity. He was also ordered to serve a lifetime term of supervised release. On January 13, 2025, an FBI agent (UC) in Jacksonville was conducting an undercover operation to identify individuals seeking to make

Reno, Nevada criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Possession of Child Pornography. Beginning on a date unknown and continuing up to and including September 9, 2021, Kurtis Lee Solomon, formerly of Fernley, Nevada, knowingly and repeatedly accessed child pornography websites over the internet and viewed child sexual abuse material that included preteens and babies. Solo

Sioux City, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with engaging in activities involving or containing child pornography. Evidence at the plea and sentencing hearings showed that, from March 1, 2022, through July 29, 2024, Brian Thomas Oakleaf received, distributed, and possessed child pornography, including depictions involving prepubescent minors, on two separate cell

Indianapolis, Indiana criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charge with two counts of child molesting, child exploitation, child pornography, promotion of child sex trafficking and child solicitation. Andrea Brewer, age 34, accused of producing child porn. Detectives reportedly seized "multiple" electronic devices belonging to Brewer while brining in the IMPD Digital Forensic Un

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexual exploitation and other abuse of children. Olvin Rodriguez-Inestroza, age 23, used internet-based accounts and a social media mobile application to distribute, trade, and receive child pornography. In addition to distributing files, he also possessed hundreds of videos and thousands of images of child

Raleigh, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with charged with distribution of child pornography. Undercover agents with the FBI investigated online distributors and traders of CSAM when agents located a chat room where a user, later identified as William Justin Lewis, age 55, uploaded numerous disturbing images and videos of CSAM. Agents traced the IP ad

New Haven, Connecticut criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with armed robbery. Isiah Falconer accused of shooting at a juvenile from whom is was going to buy a watch he found for sale on the Internet. When the sale wasn't going through an electronic app, Falconer pulled out a gun, which led to a struggle and the 18-year-old firing off several shots, Murgo said in the rel

Wichita, Kansas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distribution of child pornography. Benjamin Charles Fisher, 44, of Clearwater, admitted to using a social media messaging platform to correspond with other sex offenders to trade child sexual abuse materials. He used multiple alias accounts and connected to the internet from his home and from his work while committi

Honolulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with production of child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. 2251. Robert Silva, agte 52, of Waipahu, Hawaii, admitted that on multiple occasions in 2018 and 2019, he paid adults in the Philippines to sexually abuse children there during live internet video streams. While in Hawaii, Silva created recordings of thes

Green Bay, Wisconsin, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Interstate travel with intent to engage in a sexual act with a minor, coercing or enticing a minor for unlawful sexual activity, and production of child pornography. on December 23, 2025, Randi L. Cook (age: 24) of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, was charged in a criminal complaint with interstate travel with intent to e

Wilmington, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with receipt of child sexual abuse material (CSAM). the Department of Homeland Security and the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office investigated Scott Anthony Lewis, 65. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) received a Cyber Tip from Dropbox, reporting that one of its users had uploade

Albany, New York, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distribution of child pornography. Thomas J. Meehan, age 36, of Valatie, New York, who is alleged to have been selling child sexual abuse material (CSAM) depicting victims less than 13 years old over the internet for at least two years. Numerous images and videos of CSAM were also found on the defendant’s cell pho

New York City, New York, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with six counts of activities relating to material constituting child porno. Edward Gene Smith was charged with drugging a female victim (“Victim-1”) with the intent to rape her, sex trafficking another female victim (“Victim-2”), enticing Victim-2 to travel to engage in unlawful sexual activity, receipt

Miami, Florida, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with conspiring to obstruct, delay or affect commerce through extortion in connection with ransomware attacks occurring in 2023. Ryan Goldberg, 40, of Georgia, Kevin Martin, 36, of Texas, and another co-conspirator successfully deployed the ransomware known as ALPHV BlackCat between April 2023 and December 2023 agains

New Brunswick, New Jersey, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with online child exploitation. Middlesex County Prosecutor announced that twelve arrests of alleged child predators were made in “Operation Bad Santa,” a multi-agency undercover operation targeting people who allegedly were using social media and various online messaging applications in an attempt to lu

Sioux City, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with one count of possession of child pornography. From early May 2023, through April 3, 2024, Kenneth Brown, 60, from Badger, Iowa, received and possessed child pornography. A CyberTip to law enforcement revealed 32 files of child pornography had been uploaded to the internet from Brown’s cell phone. Brown was a vo

Cincinnati, Ohio, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with child exploitation and pornography crimes for allegedly hiding spy cameras in the house of minor victims. Between 2021 and 2025, on multiple occasions the family of teenaged victims found hidden cameras in the minors’ bedrooms. David Mitsnefes, age 32, allegedly used wifi to save videos of the minor occupants in

Wichita, Kansas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with defrauding a victim while posing as federal law enforcement officials.. 18:1349 Wire Fraud Conspiracy (Indictment filed 12/22/2025) (1) 18:1951(a) Interference with Commerce by Threat (Indictment filed 12/22/2025) (2) Venkateswara Reddy Chagamreddy, 27, of San Antonio, Texas, and Sai Praveen Kommana, 29