Asheville, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with felony possession of a firearm.

In 2014, Danquon Shermine Brown, age 32, of Asheville, was convicted in federal court in the Western District of North Carolina of possession with intent to distribute cocaine base and was sentenced to 60 months in prison. Brown’s federal conviction prohibits him from po... More...   $0 (06-02-2023 - NC)

Wilmington, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute forty (40) grams of fentanyl.

On July 6, 2021, Darrell Koonce, Jr., was stopped for erratic driving after he was observed leaving a known drug location in Kinston. When the Kinston Police Detectives approached the vehicle, they observed an odor of marijuana. During ... More...   $0 (06-02-2023 - NC)

Norfolk, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with possession of a machine gun and possession of an unregistered firearm in violation of the national firearms act.

Trashawn Newsome, 21, was in possession of a machine gun on October 6, 2022. That day, Chesapeake Police officers were investigating a vehicle reported stolen in the vicinity of Camelot Boulevard. News... More...   $0 (06-02-2023 - VA)

Roanoke, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with shootings and related drug trafficking activities.

Aaron Lee Woods, 28, pleaded guilty to one count each of possession with intent to distribute and distribution of 100 kilograms or more of marijuana as well as one count of discharging a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.

A third man, D... More...   $0 (06-02-2023 - VA)

Shreveport, Louisiana criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute drugs.

Cedric Bell, 55, of Shreveport, was sentenced to 180 months in prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release, on drug and firearms charges. On August 20, 2021, a Caddo Parish Probation Officer searched Bell’s clothing and found a digital scale and cash in his... More...   $0 (06-01-2023 - LA)

Phoenix, Arizona criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with possession with intent to distrubute 40 Grams or More of a Mixture or Substance Containing a Detectable Amount of Fentanyl.

Leon’s co-defendant, Rafael Ivan Valenzuela Chairez, 20, of Phoenix, Arizona, was sentenced on the same day by Judge Snow to 18 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised rel... More...   $0 (06-01-2023 - AZ)

Minneapolis, Minnesota criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with involuntary manslaughter.

On the morning of November 6, 2021, Gerald Wayne Johnson, 27, was driving a vehicle while intoxicated with a passenger in the front seat. Johnson was driving above 90 miles per hour on a public road which had a posted speed limit of 20 miles per hour. While speeding and driving rec... More...   $0 (05-31-2023 - MN)

Tulsa, Oklahoma personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendant on an auto negligence theory claiming to have been injured and/or damaged in a car wreck caused by Defendant's failure to exercise due care in the operation of a motor vehicle on August 6, 2021 in Sapulpa, Oklahoma.... More...   $0 (05-31-2023 - OK)

Jefferson City, Missouri criminal defense lawyers represented Defendants charged with conspiraing to go “to war with border patrol” have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges related to a conspiracy to murder Border Patrol officers, which ended in a shootout with FBI agents who arrested them on the eve of their planned trip to the United States – Mexico border.

Bryan C. ... More...   $0 (05-31-2023 - MO)

Monroe, Louisiana criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with drug trafficking.

Jacque Pierre Young, 30, of Arcadia, was sentenced to 324 months (27 years) in prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release, for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and possession of a firearm during a drug trafficking crime. Agents with the Lincoln Parish Narcotics Enforce... More...   $0 (05-31-2023 - LA)

St. Paul, Minnesota criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with illegally possessing a firearm with an attached “switch,” making it a fully automatic weapon.

On October 14, 2022, law enforcement attempted to arrest Vatthana Andy Sengsouriya, 28, on an outstanding warrant. When officers tried to take Sengsouriya into custody in the parking lot of the Eden Prairie Home ... More...   $0 (05-31-2023 - MN)

Newark, New Jersey criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with purchasing prescription oncology medications under false pretenses to sell them for profit.

Anise Kachadourian, 55, of Towaco, New Jersey, a board-certified oncologist, pleaded guilty to an information charging her with unlawfully selling prescription cancer medication, which had been previously purchased usin... More...   $0 (05-31-2023 - NJ)

Concord, New Hampshire criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with robbing a credit union.

On November 28, 2022, Ethan Clark, ate 31, gave a bank teller at the Service Credit Union in Keene a note demanding money, stealing more than $4,700. Surveillance footage shows that Clark left the bank and walked to a van he stole from his former employer. Later that day, Clark was s... More...   $0 (05-30-2023 - NH)

Charleston, South Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with engaing in a fraudulent lottery scam that targeted elderly victims around the country.

As part of the scheme, the Tyrell Harris, 32, and Errol Durrant, 60, or their co-conspirators contacted elderly victims and falsely inform the victims that they had won a sweepstakes. The supposed prizes in these swe... More...   $0 (05-30-2023 - SC)

New Haven, Connecticut criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with car jacking.

Tihaja Ortiz-Tucker, also known as “TJ,” 19, of New Haven, pleaded to carjacking and conspiracy offenses.

Between March and July 2022, Ortiz-Tucker and others posed as interested buyers of motor vehicles advertised by Connecticut residents (the “victim-sellers”) on Facebook Mar... More...   $0 (05-30-2023 - CT)

Montgomery, Alabama criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with felony possession of a firearm.

On July 9, 2021, law enforcement in Henry County, Alabama, stopped a vehicle for speeding. Officers identified Robert Skyler White, age 27, from Eufaula, Alabama, as the driver and discovered that he had outstanding warrants. While arresting White, law enforcement found a bag of... More...   $0 (05-30-2023 - AL)

Mobile, Alabama criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute fentanyl.

Lavarance D. Nettles’s guilty plea established that on September 3, 2020, the Mobile Police Department Tactical Intelligence Unit seized eighty-four pills from the defendant’s vehicle. The pills were tested and found to contain fentanyl. Officers ... More...   $0 (05-30-2023 - AL)

Omaha, Nebraska criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with unlawful transfer of a document or authentication feature.

On April 22, 2022, investigators made a purchase of fraudulent documents (a Social Security card, California Identification Card, and a Texas birth certificate) in exchange for $1,200. Investigators made a second purchase of fraudulent documents on June ... More...   $0 (05-26-2023 - NE)

Savannah, Georgia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with engaging in an arson spree that damaged multiple vehicles, a residence, and a business.

Calvin Frank Robbins, 41, of Savannah, was pleaded guilty to Destruction of Motor Vehicles

“Calvin Frank Robbins potentially endangered dozens of lives, including those of first responders extinguishing multiple rag... More...   $0 (05-26-2023 - GA)

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with discharging a firearm during and in relation to carjacking and possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute offenses.

On May 19, 2021, James Howard Klein, 35, of Chaska, Minnesota, was stopped by deputies in Juab County off Interstate-15 for a traffic violation. During a search of the Klein’s v... More...   $0 (05-26-2023 - UT)

Rochester, New York criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

Joshua Massey, age 32, of Rochester, New York, was previously convicted of multiple felonies in 2012 and 2013 and is legally prohibited from possessing a firearm and ammunition. On July 30, 2022, as Rochester Police officers attempted to initiate a traffic stop on ... More...   $0 (05-26-2023 - NY)

Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition and failure to update his sex offender registration.

According to the plea agreement and other court records, Lionel Vallo, age 39, who previously was convicted of aggravated sexual abuse in Indian Country in 2003, failed to update his sex offender re... More...   $0 (05-26-2023 - NM)

McAllen, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute 88.5 kilograms of cocaine.

On Nov. 13, 2022, Faustino Perez Luna was driving a tractor trailer loaded with cocaine. The drugs were the priority load of a known drug trafficking organization.

Luna approached the Falfurrias checkpoint and claimed to be headed to Atlanta... More...   $0 (05-26-2023 - TX)

Muskogee, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with possession with internet to distribute meth.

On May 9, 2023, Charles Joseph Raz, age 42, of Dallas, Texas, pleaded guilty to Possession with the Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine.

During the plea hearing, Raz admitted that on November 27, 2021, he was stopped by a Latimer County Sheriff’s Deputy f... More...   $0 (05-26-2023 - OK)

Cedar City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with murder.

Jacob Wayne Schmidt was accused of hitting a man he knew with a vehicle. The victim, age 37, was transported to the Cedar City Hospital after being hit by Schmidt's vehicle in the Home Depot Parking lot September 7, 2020 after a conflict between the two men.

Chad Dotson prosecuted the case.
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