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United States of America v. Shawn Tobin Locklear, Jr.

New Bern, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyers Kelly Dagger and Paul Sun represented the Defendant charged with possession of a machine gun in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. After officers arrested Shawn Tobin Locklear, Jr., age 20, for armed robbery while using a gun, a state court judge released him in March 2022. A few months later in November 2022, while Locklear roamed free o

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United States of America v. Kevin Russell Beasley

Norfolk, Virginia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute cocaine and being a felon in possession of a firearm. On Nov. 1, 2024, law enforcement intercepted a parcel, shipped from California, containing over three kilograms of cocaine. Investigators performed a controlled delivery of the parcel to the intended address in Portsmouth, a

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United States of America v. Damon Tyler Mills

Roanoke, Virginia, criminal defense lawyers, Brooke Alexander Duncan and Anthony Franklin Anderson, represented the Defendant charged with committing an armed robbery in violaiton of the Hobbs Act and discharging a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence. On February 24, 2019, law enforcement responded to an apartment in Roanoke County, Virginia regarding a disturbance involving firearms.

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United States of America v. Michael Dwayne Banks and Victor Valente-Reynoso

Atlanta, Georgia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distributing controlled substances and possession of a machine gun. On August 23, 2022, Victor Valente Reynoso, an illegal alien from Mexico, sold 536 fentanyl pills outside a gas station in Clayton County, Georgia. Following that deal, Reynoso and his conspirators arranged to sell 5,000 fentanyl pills at a church

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United States of America v. Taxavier Ford

Sioux City, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with unlawful transportation of firearms. Taxavier Ford, 29, from Alta, Iowa, was charged one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. Ford was previously convicted of possession of a narcotic drug, in the State of Indiana in 2017, and possession of marijuana, with intent to deliver and possession of a firear

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United States of America v. Eddie Marcus Love

St. Louis, Missouri, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with: Discharge of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime Conspiracy to Possess a Firearm in Furtherance of Drug Trafficking Discharge of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime resulting in death (Death penalty eligible) Possess, Brandish, and Discharge a Firearm in Furth

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United States of America v. Tyrell Wallace

Jackson, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with knowingly possessing actual methamphetamine with the intent to distribute. Tyrell Wallace, a guard at the Dyer County Jail, reported to work on October 24, 2024. Investigators stopped Wallace and announced an administrative search. Inside Wallace’s waistband, investigators recovered 53 grams of actual methamphe

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United States of America v. Jamar Tywone Kimpson

Columbia, South Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with unlawful transportation of firearms. In 2021, workers at a local FedEx hub found three suspicious packages with a strong odor of marijuana. All three were addressed to the same person at an address in Swansea, South Carolina with return addresses of the recipient’s same name and address. Law enforcement e

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United States of America v. Joshua Sterling McClain

Raleigh, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Possess with intent to distribute forty (40) grams or more of a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of fentanyl, a quantity of a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of cocaine, and a quantity of a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine. Inve

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United States of America v. William Kuduk

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with drug trafficking and hiring gunmen to protect his illegal activities and unemployment wire fraud. William Kuduk, age 38, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was found responsible for trafficking over 1,000 kilograms (2,200 pounds) of marijuana from his used car dealership. He also trafficked over five kilograms o

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United States of America v. Edenilson Velasquez Larin, also known as “Agresor,” Saturno,” “Tiny,” and “Paco,”; Hugo Diaz Amaya, also known as “21”; Fulton Locos Salvatruchas (Fulton) clique leader Jose Espinoza Sanchez, also known as “Cable,” “Bleca,” and “Fantasma”; and Fulton member Jose Arevalao Iraheta, also known as “Splinter,” “Inesperado,” and “Daniel.”

Brooklyn, New York, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with Racketeering conspiracy, conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine and marijuana, murder in-aid-of racketeering. Velasquez Larin was convicted of racketeering conspiracy, conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine and marijuana, murder in-aid-of racketee

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United States of America v. Arsenio Hall

Montgomery, Alabama, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, cocaine, a synthetic cannabinoid, and marijuana. Law enforcement began investigating suspected drug-trafficking activity in Montgomery County in late 2024. As part of that investigation, investigators with th

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United States of America v. Desmond Collins

Sioux City, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with two counts of distribution of a controlled substance. Desmond Collins, age 34, from Fort Dodge, Iowa, admitted that in October 2024, he distributed a total of approximately three ounces of methamphetamine to a person cooperating with law enforcement in Fort Dodge, Iowa. At the time of the distribution, Collins wa

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United States of America v. Brandon Mitchell

Sioux City, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm. Brandon Mitchell, 29, from Mason City, Iowa, was previously convicted twice for domestic abuse assault in the Iowa District Court for Cerro Gordo County. The convictions prevented Mitchell from legally possessing firearms. Mitchell had two prior convicti

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United States of America v. Courtney Sterling

Greenville, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Conspiracy to Distribute 50 Grams or More of Methamphetamine, in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 846, 841(a)(1), and (b)(1)(A), Possession of a Firearm as an Illegal Alien, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(5), and Aggravated Re-entry, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a), (b)(2). In November of 2022, the John

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United States of America v. Jose Angel Capetillo

Beaumont, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm. On March 8, 2024, Jose Angel Capetillo, 23, was stopped for a traffic violation in Lufkin. A search of the vehicle revealed three firearms and suspected controlled substances. On April 12, 2024, Capetillo was stopped for a traffic violation in Hudson and admitted to havin

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United States of America v. Pasqual Perez Duckett

Columbia, South Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distribution of fentanyl which resulted in the death of a 28-year-old Columbia woman. In July 2023, agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration, in collaboration with the City of Columbia Police Department and the Richland County Sheriff's Department, initiated an investigation into Pasqual Perez Ducket

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United States of America v. Kenneth Orlin Simmons

Raleigh, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with selling more than 50 grams of methamphetamine. In July 2022, Kenneth Orlin Simmons, Jr., age 36, sold over a kilogram of methamphetamine to a confidential informant in Nash County. The Nash County Sherriff’s Office along with the DEA later obtained a search warrant for Simmons residence. During that searc

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United States of America v. Roderick Gunn, aka Zappa

New York City, New York, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with f conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act obbery (Count One), attempt to commit Hobbs Act robbery (Count Three), and conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute 100 kilograms or more of marijuana (Count Eight).

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United States of America v. Alejandro Aldave

Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possessing more than eight pounds of cocaine that he knowingly transported from Texas to the Northern District of Oklahoma. n April 2025, law enforcement became aware that Aldave was distributing large amounts of cocaine out of a home in Tulsa. After receiving a search warrant, an agent installed a tracking device o

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United States of America v. Edenilson Velasquez Larin, also known as “Agresor,” Saturno,” “Tiny,” and “Paco,”; Hugo Diaz Amaya, also known as “21”; Fulton Locos Salvatruchas (Fulton) clique leader Jose Espinoza Sanchez, also known as “Cable,” “Bleca,” and “Fantasma”; and Fulton member Jose Arevalao Iraheta, also known as “Splinter,” “Inesperado,” and “Daniel.”

Brooklyn, New York, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with racketeering conspiracy, conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine and marijuana, murder in-aid-of racketeering in connection with the fatal machete attack of 18-year-old Kenny Reyes, continuing criminal enterprise, murder in-aid-of racketeering in connection with the fatal shooting of 2

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State of Florida v. Danny Francisque

Tallahassee, Florida, criminal defense lawyer presents the Defendant charged with drug trafficking. Danny Francisque, age 34, was found with pounds of marijuana in an apartment that was being used mainly to store drugs. They searched Francisque's primary residence on Paul Russell Road and found what detectives say was additional evidence consistent with drug trafficking.

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United States of America v. Alejandro Aldave

Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possessing more than eight pounds of cocaine that he knowingly transported from Texas to the Northern District of Oklahoma. In April 2025, law enforcement became aware that Alejandro Aldave, 37, was distributing large amounts of cocaine out of a home in Tulsa. After receiving a search warrant, an agent installed a

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United States of America v. Alreico Wiley

Little Rock, Arkansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. The two-count Indictment filed on November 2, 2023, also charged Wiley with possession with intent to distribution. Alreico Wiley, 50, of West Memphis, pleaded guilty to count two of an Indictment charging him with possession with intent to distribute metham

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United States of America v. Michael O. Williams

Milwaukee, Wisconsin criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute controlled substances. Michael Williams, age 44, manufactured and distributed kilogram quantities of fentanyl, cocaine, and heroin, and he also distributed pound quantities of methamphetamine and marijuana. Williams was part of a drug trafficking conspiracy that had established distribut

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