Kidnapping Law
 
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Samson Washington, Marekus Benson and Deandrew Lamonte Callender

Somerset, Pennsylvania criminal law lawyer represented Defendants charged with firs-degree murder, kidnapping, unlawful restrating, aggravated assault, homicide and conspiracy.

Samson Washington, Marekus Benson and Deandre Callander were accused of killing James Smith, 32, of Portage, and Damian Staniszewski, 19, of Duncansville.

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   $0 (10-21-2022 - PA)

State of Texas v. Manuel Mendoza

Wichita Falls, Texas criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with aggravated sexual assault and two counts of indecency with a child by contact.

Manuel Mendoza was accused of aggravated sexual assault and two counts on indecency with a child by contact by forcing the girls to perform sexual acts on him when she was in bed with him at night when she was 8 or 9 years old.
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   $0 (10-21-2022 - TX)

United States of America v. Ian Josiah Timbana

Cheyenne, Wyoming criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with for assault resulting in serious bodily injury in Indian Country.

On December 7, 2021, law enforcement responded to a call for service at a residence on the Wind River Indian Reservation. At the scene, law enforcement located a woman with facial fractures who had been assaulted by Timbana.

This crime was in... More...
   $0 (10-18-2022 - WY)

United States of America v. Abdullahi Ahmed Abdullahi

San Diego, California criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiring with others to provide material support to terrorists engaged in violent activities such as murder, kidnapping and maiming of persons in Syria.

Abdullahi Ahmed Abdullahi, 37, of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada provided both money and personnel to support the violent jihadist activities of the Islamic State o... More...
   $0 (10-17-2022 - CA)

United States of America v. Troy Allen Stevenson

Muskogee, Oklahoma criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with involuntary manslaughter in Indian Country.

Troy Allen Stevenson, age 22, from Sequoyah County, Oklahoma was accused involuntary manslaughter.

The Sequoyah County Sheriff's Office investigate the case along with the Cherokee Nation Marshal Service, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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   $0 (10-14-2022 - OK)

United States of America v. Steve Cochran

Newport News, Virginia criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with making more than 60 threats to murder, rape, torture and otherwise harm state and federal elected officials, including numerous members of Congress and a former President of the United States.

Steve Cochran, 43, repeatedly threatened to murder, kidnap, torture, and/or rape elected officials and their loved ones.... More...
   $0 (10-13-2022 - VA)

United States of America v. Adam Taylor Wright

Detroit, Michigan criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with second degree murder in violation of 18 U.S. Code § 1111, which provides:

(a) Murder is the unlawful killing of a human being with malice aforethought. Every murder perpetrated by poison, lying in wait, or any other kind of willful, deliberate, malicious, and premeditated killing; or committed in the perpetration of... More...
   $0 (10-12-2022 - MI)

United States of America v. Kimberly Nichole Biglow

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with Kidnapping and assault in Indian Country.

Kimberly Nichole Biglow, 44, kidnapped a victim at knifepoint at a Sapulpa, Oklahoma gas station and forced her to drive to Kellyville, Oklahoma.

“Federal prosecutors and our partners at the Sapulpa and Kellyville Police Departments and the FBI remain committed to pu... More...
   $0 (10-11-2022 - OK)

United States of America v. Patrick Stallworth

Birmingham, Alabama criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with kidnapping.

On October 12, 2019, Patrick Devone Stallworth traveled in a Toyota Sequoia with a co-conspirator to the Tom Brown Village Housing Development located in Birmingham, Alabama and kidnapped 3-year-old Kamille “Cupcake” McKinney. Her body was found 10 days later.

A jury held the defendant ac... More...
   $0 (10-07-2022 - AL)

United States of America v. Russell Robinson, Jeffrey Howell, Richard Hampton, Tiffany Parker, April Teeter

Little Rock, Arkansas criminal defense Lawyer represented charged with drug trafficking



White Supremacists Gang Trafficked Drugs in Pope County Area



Five defendants were sentenced for their involvement in crimes carried out on behalf of a white supremacist ... More...
   $0 (10-04-2022 - AR)

United States of America v. Ryan Christopher Dill

Muskogee, Oklahoma criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with aggravated sexual abuse in Indian County and assault resulting in serious bodily injury in Indian Country.

On or about December 25, 2021, Ryan Christopher Dill, age 35, from Ada, Oklahoma, sexually assaulted a victim using force and by placing the victim in fear she would be subjected to death, serious bodily injury... More...
   $0 (10-03-2022 - OK)

State of Texas v. Taylor Parker

New Boston, Texas criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with capital-murder and kidnapping.

Taylor Parker was accused of killing an expectant mother and cutting her unborn child, Braxlyn, out of her body.... More...
   $0 (10-03-2022 - TX)

State of Arizona v. Christopher Clements

Tucson, Arizona criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with kidnapping and murder.

Christopher Clements was accused of killing Maribel Gonzalez.



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   $0 (09-30-2022 - AZ)

United States of America v. Chance Seneca

Lafayette, Louisiana criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with kidnapping in conjunction with the commission of a hate crime.

Chance Seneca, age 21, from Lafayette, Louisiana admitted that on June 20, 2020, he used Grindr, a dating application for gay and bisexual men, to kidnap and attempt to murder H.W., a gay man. Specifically, Seneca acknowledged that he used Grindr to pr... More...
   $0 (09-29-2022 - LA)

United States of America v. Devan Nathaniel Johnson and Brandon Wayne Killian

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with aiding and abetting a hate crime in violation of 18 U.S.C. 249 and 18 U.S.C. 2.

On Jan. 18, 2022, a federal grand in the Western District of Oklahoma returned a two-count Indictment charging Defendants, Devan Nathanial Johnson, 28, and Brandon Wayne Killian, 31, who are white, and who physically assaulted a Bla... More...
   $0 (09-27-2022 - OK)

United States of America v. Ralph Haywood Jones, Jr.

Gainesville, Georgia criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with kidnapping, felony possession of a firearm and drugs.

On June 10, 2019, Ralph Haywood Jones, Jr., shot two women, including his ex-girlfriend – the mother of his children – whom he shot, kidnapped, and drove to South Carolina where he abandoned her in a parking lot without seeking medical attention. Jones left... More...
   $0 (09-19-2022 - FL)

State of Missouri v. Xavier B. Gee

Columbia, Missouri criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with seven felonies including rape, robbery and kidnapping.

Xavier B. Gee, age 26, was accused of first-degree rape, attempted rape, two counts of first-degree robbery, tow counts of armed criminal action, first-degree sodomy or attempted sodomy and kidnapping.

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   $0 (09-15-2022 - MO)

United States of America v. Dominique Devonah Brand

Florence, South Carolina criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with kidnapping, carjacking felony possession of a firearm resulting in death.

The government accused Defendant of kidnapping and killing Mary Ann Elvington, a Horry County grandmother in March 2021.

Defendant waived his right to a jury trial.

Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1201(a)(1) and 1201... More...
   $0 (09-08-2022 - SC)

United States of America v. Jesse Paul Blankenship, A/K/A JP

Beaumont, Texas criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with Racketeering.

A Stratford, Missouri man has been sentenced for Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations violations stemming from his membership in the white supremacy prison gang, the Aryan Circle, announced U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.

Jesse Paul Blankenship, 39, also known as JP, was convicted at ... More...
   $0 (09-08-2022 - TX)

State of Oklahoma v. Jerry Irwin and Jennifer Lynn Perea

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal lawyer represented Defendant, charged with:
Assault & Battery With A Deadly Weapon

Count # 1. Count as Filed: ABDGR, ASSAULT & BATTERY WITH A DEADLY WEAPON, in violation of 21 O.S. 652 C
Date of Offense: 07/29/2021
Party Name Disposition Information
IRWIN, JERRY Disposed: CONVICTION, 08/23/2022. Jury Trial
Count as Disposed: ASSAULT & BATT... More...
   $0 (08-30-2022 - OK)

United States of America v. Jeffrey T. Havens

Ashland, Kentucky criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with depriving an inmate of his civil rights.

Jeffrey T. Havens, age 27, a former Eastern Kentucky Correctional Center (EKCC) officer from West Liberty, Kentucky, admitted that on July 24, 2018, he and another EKCC correctional officer assaulted an inmate who had been taken to an isolated shower cell. Havens admitted that he... More...
   $0 (08-30-2022 - KY)

State of Oklahoma v. Roscoe Devon Hawkins

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with:
Kidnapping

Count # 1. Count as Filed: KID, KIDNAPPING, in violation of 21 O.S. 741
Date of Offense: 03/13/2021
Party Name Disposition Information
HAWKINS, ROSCOE DEVON Disposed: CONVICTION, 08/29/2022. Nolo Contendere Plea
Count as Disposed: KIDNAPPING(KID)
Violation of 21 O.S.... More...
   $0 (08-29-2022 - OK)

State of Oklahoma v. Andrew Wade Spradlin

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal lawyer represented Defendant, charged with:
Kidnapping


Count # 1. Count as Filed: KID, KIDNAPPING, in violation of 21 O.S. 741
Date of Offense: 04/07/2022
Party Name Disposition Information
SPRADLIN, ANDREW WADE Disposed: CONVICTION, 08/29/2022. Guilty Plea
Count as Disposed: KIDNAPPING(KID)
Violation of 21 O.S. 741
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State of Oklahoma v. Phillip Kent Shadid

El Reno, OK: criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with:
Kidnapping

Count # 1. Count as Filed: KID, KIDNAPPING, in violation of 21 O.S. 741
Date of Offense: 12/01/2021
Party Name Disposition Information
SHADID, PHILLIP KENT Disposed: CONVICTION, 08/26/2022. Guilty Plea
Count as Disposed: KIDNAPPING(KID)
Violation of 21 O.S. 741
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   $0 (08-26-2022 - OK)

State of Florida v. Trevor Steve Summers

Tampa, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with kidnapping, raping and attempting to kill his former wife.

Trevor Summers was charged with eleven felonies as a result of kiddnapping, raping and attempting to murder his ex-wife in 2017.

Defendant got into the victim's house, tied her to a bed and repeatedly raped her and tried to suffocate her with a pill... More...
   $0 (08-26-2022 - FL)

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