Kidnapping Law
 
State of North Carolina v. Peter Alphonso Blake

Smithfield, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with forceable rape, first-degree kidnapping, first-degree burglary and involuntary sexual servitude. Peter Alphonso Blake, age 33, is a former police officer, is accused of breaking into a home on April 8 with the intention of raping and subjecting the victim to sexual servitude.

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United States of America v. Akeem Chambers, a/k/a “Luca,” Jonathan Vazquez, a/k/a “Chulo” and “Clutch,” and Jerell Shaw, a/k/a “Rells” and “Rells Fargo

Brooklyn, New York, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with racketeering, racketeering conspiracy, murder, attempted murder, assault, murder conspiracy, kidnapping, robbery, robbery conspiracy, wire fraud conspiracy, mortgage fraud conspiracy, and money laundering. Akeem Chambers, also known as “Luca,” Jonathan Vazquez, also known as “Chulo” and “Clutch,” a

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United States of America v. Jonathan Lamar Wooten

Albany, Georgia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. There was a bank shooting in Tallahassee, Florida, on May 5, 2023, in which Jonathan Lamar Wooten, aka “Chico,” 53, of Thomasville, was allegedly involved and now is facing state charges in Florida for attempted murder, aggravated battery and possession of a firearm

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United States of America v. Jose Ramirez

Albuquerque, New Mexico, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with kidnapping. In 2018, just weeks after his release from prison for a felony firearm conviction stemming from a high-speed police chase, and while under court supervision and wearing a GPS ankle monitor, Jose Ramirez, 47, engineered a calculated and violent kidnapping-for-ransom scheme targeting his former emp

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Vinita, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with r Feloniously Pointing a Firearm (21 O.S.Supp.2012, § 1289.16) or in the alternative Domestic Assault with a Dangerous Weapon (21 O.S.Supp.2014, § 644) (Count I); Possession of a Firearm, After Former Conviction of a Felony (21 O.S. Supp.2014, § 1283) (Counts II and III); Kidnapping (21 O.S.Supp.2012, § 751 (Count

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United States of America v. Jose Ramirez

Albuquerque, New Mexico, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with multiple charges, including conspiracy to kidnap, kidnapping, conspiracy to carjack, carjacking, using and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, and extortion in December 2025.

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State of Florida v. Jeromee Safford

Tallahassee, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with with seven crimes: five counts of armed sexual battery, one count of kidnapping with intent to facilitate a felony, and one count of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.

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State of Florida v. Nelson Nunez and Jusiah Jones

Miami, Florida, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with rape. Nelson Nunez, 13, and Jusiah Jones, 12, accused of raping a 12-year-old girl. Nunez, Jones and Xavier Tyson, 15, were charged with sexual battery, kidnapping and false imprisonment. Nunez, Jones and Xavier Tyson, 15, were charged with sexual battery, kidnapping and false imprisonment. The Defendant w

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State of Oklahoma v. Aaron James Pruitt

Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with: Count # 1. Count as Filed: KID, KIDNAPPING, in violation of 21 O.S. 741 Date of Offense: 06/08/2024 PRUITT, AARON JAMES Disposed: DISMISSED, 03/18/2026. Dismissed- Request of the State Count as Disposed: KIDNAPPING(KID) Violation of 21 O.S. 741 Count # 2. Count as Filed: BH, THREATEN AN ACT OF VIOLENC

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State of Montana v. Franciso Padilla-Canales

Bozeman, Montana, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Deliberate Homicide, Aggravated Kidnapping, Witness Tampering, and Aggravated Burglary. On July 6, 2022, Padilla-Canales1 broke into a home where his wife, Gloryangelise Padilla Navarro, was spending the night. The couple had separated, and Navarro had begun a romantic relationship with Lesman Escobar Andara. Upon

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United States of America v. Janette Ramirez

New Orleans, Louisiana, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit kidnapping and conspiracy to receive ransom payments. Janette Ramirez, age 34, co-defendant Hector Mondragon-Flores and Edwin Salgado-Nunez kidnapped the victim. They bound the victim’s hands and legs together, held him at gunpoint in Mondragon-Flores’s apartment, and demanded the pa

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United States of America v. Edward Kelvin Pope, et al.

Rome, Georgia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with conspiracy to distribute controlled substances. Edward Kelvin Pope, David Wilson, and Kevin Josue Campos Rivera coordinated with Jose Santos Isaola Cisneros, a federal inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in Atlanta, were accused of distributing methamphetamine to couriers and customers throughout north Geo

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State of Oklahoma v. David Christopher Williams

Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with: Count # 1. Count as Filed: ABDOM2, ASSAULT AND BATTERY-DOMESTIC, FELONY-2ND OFFENSE, in violation of 21 O.S. 644(G) Date of Offense: 01/14/2025 WILLIAMS, DAVID CHRISTOPHER Disposed: CONVICTION, 03/03/2026. Guilty Plea Count as Disposed: ASSAULT AND BATTERY-DOMESTIC, FELONY-2ND OFFENSE(ABDOM2) Violation of

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United States of America v. Eduardo Javier Ordonez-Godoy

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm, illegal reentry after removal. Eduardo Javier Ordonez-Godoy approached a woman in the parking lot of an apartment complex in Haltom City, Texas. Armed with a firearm, Ordonez-Godoy forced the victim into the backseat of her vehicle and drove her to a nearb

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People of the State of California v. Antolin Garcia-Torres

San Jose, California criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with kidnapping and murdering. Antolin Garcia-Torres, age 34, was accused of kidnapping and murdering Sierra LaMar in 2012. LaMar was 15 years old when she disappeared on her way to Sobrato High School in Morgan Hill on the morning of March 16, 2012. Her body has not been found.

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United States of America v. Fredy Mauricio Buruca, a/k/a “Piranha,” “Machete,” and “Insoportable” and Santos Guillermo Ramirez Mancia, a/k/a “Azazel,” “Timido,” and “Johnny”

Charlotte, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant's charged with conspiracy to conduct affairs of an enterprise through a pattern of racketeering activities. Fredy Mauricio Buruca, a/k/a “Piranha,” “Machete,” and “Insoportable,” 27, of El Salvador, was sentenced to 30 years in prison followed by three years of supervised release. He was also ordered to re

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State of Oklahoma v. R.A.B.

Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with kidnapping and domestic assault and battery against a pregnant woman. 21 O.S. 741, provides: Any person who, without lawful authority, seizes, confines, inveigles, decoys, kidnaps, abducts, or carries away another, with intent, either: 1. To cause such other person to be confined or imprisoned in this state a

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State of Oklahoma v. Keon Biagas

Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with first-degree rape, sodomy, and kidnapping. 21 O.S. 1114 provides: A. Rape or rape by instrumentation in the first degree, a Class A2 felony offense, shall include: 1. Rape committed by a person over eighteen (18) years of age upon a person under fourteen (14) years of age; 2. Rape committed upon a person i

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United States of America v. Don Lemon

Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyers represent the Defendant charged with conspiracy agains rights of religious freedom at a place or worship and injuring, intimidating and interfering with the exercise of a right of religious worship. 18:241 provides: If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Po

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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Randolf Simmons

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with 35 total charges relating to trafficking, involuntary servitude, kidnapping, sexual assault and drug-related offenses. Randolf Simmons, 46, of Collegeville, Pennsylvania, accused for drug and human trafficking.

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State of Oklahoma v. Angelo Jerome Escogido

Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with kidnapping, assault and battery-domestice and receiving possessing or concealing stolen property.

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State of New York v. Brandy McCallops, Troy Beamon, Dominique White, Patrick Fisher, Laquan Lemon, and Keitwon Reed

Malone, New York, criminal dense lawyers presented the Defendants charged with kidnapping. Brandy McCallops, 48, of Malone — Two counts of first-degree kidnapping, two counts of second-degree conspiracy, third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and first-degree criminal nuisance. Keitwon Reed, 19, of Syracuse — Two counts of first-degree kidnapping, two counts of second-d

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United States of America v. Juan Gomez, et al.

Omaha, Nebraska criminal defense lawyers represented 31 Defendants charged with conspiracy to deploy malware and steal millions of dollars from ATMs in the United States, a crime commonly referred to as “ATM jackpotting.” Fifty-six others have already been charged. Many of the defendants charged in this Homeland Security Task Force operation are Venezuelan and Colombian nationals including ill

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United States of America v. Derrick Callella

Phoenix, Arizona, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with sent a false ransom relating to the kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie. Derrick Callella, age 42, admitted to sending the two text messages. He admitted to using the VOIP account from which two actual text messages came from. CALLELLA stated that he pulled family information from a cyber website, and that he had been fol

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United States of America v. Harrison Michael Barton

Columbus, Ohio, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with kidnapping and sexual exploitation of children. In February 2025, Harrison Michael Barton, 38, of North Detroit, Texas, took a Greyhound bus from Texas to Ohio to meet a 15-year-old approximately one month after connecting with the victim on the Call of Duty mobile game. At the time, Barton was wanted on an outst

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