Kansas City, Missouri receiving child pornography charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Joseph L. Smith, 48, who was charged failure to register as a sex offender he was convicted in 1992 for forcible oral sodomy of an 8-year-old female. Smith was also convicted of failure to register as a sex offender in 2001.

On Oct. 15, 2020, Smith pleaded guilty to receiving child por... More...   $0 (02-27-2021 - MO)

Knoxville, Tennessee child porn distribution charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Timothy Wayne Turben, 40, of LaFollette, Tennessee, who was charged with knowingly distributing child pornography in interstate commerce.

The investigation began after a social media company notified the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that the defendant’s social media... More...   $0 (02-24-2021 - TN)

Scranton, Pennsylvania child porn charge criminal defense lawyer represented Barry Ritter, Jr., age 55, of Milton, Pennsylvania, was charged with distributing and possessing child pornography.

Ritter pled guilty to the receipt and distribution of child pornography between March 2018 to July 2018. Ritter used online forums to obtain and re-distribute child pornography on at least several ... More...   $0 (02-17-2021 - PA)

Fort Myers, Florida cyber stalking defendant charged with cyberstalking.

Bretton Howard Osborne (29, Punta Gorda) was charged with cyberstalking stalking and conspiracy to commit stalking.

Osborne’s co-defendant, Ian Douglas McGuire (30, Port Charlotte), was previously sentenced to 5 years in federal prison for the same offenses. Osborne and McGuire have also been ordered to p... More...   $0 (02-13-2021 - FL)

Omaha, Nebraska child porn charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, John A. Duncan, age 37, of Omaha, Nebraska, was charged for receipt and distribution of child pornography.

An investigation conducted by the FBI determined that in July of 2019, Discord, Inc., a digital file sharing application, reported that between February 9, 2019 and March 3, 2019, several files of minor... More...   $0 (02-09-2021 - NE)

Council Bluffs, Iowa buying or selling children charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Thomas Donald Boatright, age 52, of Council Bluffs four counts of coercion and enticement of a minor.

Boatright worked as a foreign exchange coordinator and host for a program in which students from other countries enrolled in a year of high school in the United States. The students were ... More...   $0 (02-08-2021 - IA)

Fayetteville, Arkansas intent to view child porn charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Jon Anderson, age 44, of Siloam Springs, Arkansas, was sentenced today to 87 months in federal prison without the possibility of parole followed by 20 years of supervised release on one count of Accessing the Internet with the Intent to View Child Pornography. The Honorable Judge Timothy L. Broo... More...   $0 (02-08-2021 - AR)

Lexington, Kentucky production of child pornography charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Johnathan Scott Mason, age 27.

In March 2020, law enforcement officers became aware of Mason’s activity on the social media application, Kik. On this app, Mason expressed a sexual interest in children and said that he had sexually explicit images of minors that he had produced. Ma... More...   $0 (02-06-2021 - KY)

San Diego, CA - Cybercrime charged criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Kirill Victorovich Firsov, a Russian citizen, who was charged with unauthorized solicitation of access devices.

Defendant admited that he was the administrator of a website that catered to cyber criminals by virtually selling items such as stolen credit card information, other personal information and s... More...   $0 (01-29-2021 - )

Boise, Idaho cyberstalking criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Alvin Willie George, age 25, of Cross City, Florida, who was charged with two counts of cyberstalking. George was indicted by a federal grand jury sitting in Boise on December 11, 2019.

According to court records, in December 1999, in Texas, two female children were attacked in a bedroom. During the attack both chi... More...   $0 (01-19-2021 - ID)

Spokane, Washington conspiracy to produce child pornography charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Juan Rivera, age 47, of Moses Lake, Washington, who was charged with Conspiracy to Produce Child Pornography.

Rivera is a citizen of Mexico who was previously removed from the United States in 2003 and 2009.

According to information disclosed during court proceedings... More...   $0 (01-19-2021 - WA)

Cedar Rapids, IA child porn charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Jared Daily, age 34, from Belle Plaine, Iowa, was charged with one count of accessing with intent to view child pornography.

Daily admitted that, between January and June 2020, he used a cell phone to access child pornography, including images of prepubescent children.

Daily was taken into custo... More...   $0 (01-18-2021 - IA)

Tacoma, Washington wire fraud charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Cova Campbell, a/k/a Cova Hunter, who was charged with wire fraud in connection with her scheme to steal nearly $7 million. She used a variety of schemes to divert $6.9 in public money to her own bank accounts.

According to records filed in the case, CAMPBELL initiated wire transfers of as much as $50... More...   $0 (01-18-2021 - WA)

Lexington, Kentucky transportation of child pornography charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Leonard Edward Riley, 45, who was charged with transporting child pornography using the Internet.

Riley admitted that on July 30, 2017, he was in possession of 23 images and two videos of child pornography on his smart phone. These images depicted children under 12 engaged in... More...   $0 (01-17-2021 - KY)

Concord, NH possession and distribution of child porn charge criminal defense lawyer represented Joseph Gaudreau, 25, of Somersworth, was charged with possessing and distributing child pornography.

According to court documents and statements made in court, on April 26, 2017, the New Hampshire State Police (“NHSP”) received three tips previously submitted to the National C... More...   $0 (01-11-2021 - NH)

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense attempted transmission of obscene materials charge lawyer represented Aaron Charles Merritt, 34.

From March, 2020 until May, 2020, Merritt used an online messaging service to send numerous messages of a sexual nature to someone he thought was a 14-year-old girl; however, it was an undercover agent. Throughout his messages, Merritt asked questions about the... More...   $0 (01-10-2021 - OK)

New York, New York computer hacking charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Andrei Tyurin, a/k/a "Andrei Tiurin", who was charged with computer intrusion, wire fraud, bank fraud, and illegal online gambling offenses in connection with his involvement in a massive computer hacking campaign targeting U.S. financial institutions, brokerage firms, financial news publishers, and other Ame... More...   $0 (01-08-2021 - NY)

Columbus, Ohio criminal defense homicide lawyer represented Desjuan R. Lee Harris, 25, was charged with two counts of robbery and two counts of brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence.

Harris and others were indicted by a federal grand jury in July 2019 for crimes related to a string of robberies of Internet gaming businesses, including one robbery at Players Paradise on East Bro... More...   $0 (01-07-2021 - OH)

New York, NY - Bank fraud criminal defense lawyers

JOSEPH IORHEMBA ASAN JR. and CHARLES IFEANYI OGOZY each pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud in connection with a scheme to commit fraud against victims across the United States, defraud banks, and launder over $3 million dollars in fraud proceeds. Both defendants were arrested on October 31, 2019. O... More...   $0 (01-04-2021 - NY)