Buffalo, New York criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with enticing a minor to engage in sexual activity.

Between October 8, 2020, and January 9, 2021, Michael Mesko, age 52, of Cheektowaga, New York, engaged in a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old minor female (Victim 1), who was mentally disabled. Mesko communicated with Victim 1 via text message and mobile chat ap... More...   $0 (05-31-2022 - NY)

Albany, New York criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with attempted online enticement of a minor.

As part of his guilty plea, Warner admitted that between about October 2020 and January 15, 2021, he exchanged electronic messages, via text and through a social networking platform, with someone he believed to be the mother of an 11-year-old girl. In those messages, Warner... More...   $0 (05-26-2022 - NY)

Washington, DC: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendants charged with sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion, sex trafficking of minors, and related offenses.

Willis Lewis, age 48, and Brittany Jones, age 32, were indicted for sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion, sex trafficking of minors, and related offenses, in connection with their trafficking of a 15-year-old... More...   $0 (05-24-2022 - DC)

Wichita Falls, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with indecency with an 8-year=old child and continuing for 10 years.

Andrew Riggs, age 46, was charged with sexual indecency with a child. The child testified that Defendant abused her during the entire time that he dated her mother who caught him abusing her.

Title 5 Texas Penal Code Sec. 21.01 provides:... More...   $0 (05-23-2022 - TX)

Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with participating in a sex trafficking conspiracy.

Matthew Engram, 35, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking by force, fraud and coercion; two counts of transportation of an individual for purposes of prostitution; and one count of conspiracy to commit interstate travel in aid of a r... More...   $0 (05-20-2022 - MA)

Tallahassee, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with coercing or enticing a minor to engage in prostitution.

Jirard Quin Kincherlow, age 40, of Montgomery Alabama, was convicted by a federal jury on June 11, 2021, finding Kincherlow guilty on the sole count of coercing or enticing a minor to engage in prostitution.

“This sentence is yet another examp... More...   $0 (05-16-2022 - FL)

Buffalo, New York criminal defense lawyers represented Defendants charged with sex trafficking and drug conspiracies.

• Lairon Graham a/k/a Shah a/k/a Uncle Shah a/k/a Unc – 64, Buffalo, NY
• Kimberly Udrea – 34, Buffalo, NY
• Thomas Degree a/k/a Tommy – 57, Fairborn, GA
• Joseph Ward – 58, Buffalo, NY
• Jordan Davis a/k/a Little Corn a/k/a Baby Corn – ... More...   $0 (05-12-2022 - NY)

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense attorney represented Defendant, charged with:
Falsely Personate Another to Create Liability

Count # 1. Count as Filed: FFP, FALSELY PERSONATE ANOTHER TO CREATE LIABILITY, in violation of 21 O.S. 1531.4
Date of Offense: 02/12/2019
Party Name Disposition Information
RICE, DESTINY Disposed: DEFERRED, 09/12/2019. Guilty Plea
Count as D... More...   $0 (05-09-2022 - OK)

Knoxville, Tennessee civil rights lawyers represented Plaintiffs-Appellants, who sued Defendant on a Amendment Violation theory.

The First Amendment does not “constitutionalize the employee
grievance.” Connick v. Myers, 461 U.S. 138, 154 (1983). But that is what police officers
Christopher Anderson and J.J. Hatmaker seek, asking us to second-guess the city’s decision to fi... More...   $0 (05-02-2022 - TN)

Minneapolis, Minnesota criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion.

Between January and March 2019, Darnell Deshawn Stennis, 30, transported one woman around the Midwest, using threats and physical violence to force the woman into performing commercial sex acts. In March of 2019, Stennis transported a second woman between Minneso... More...   $0 (04-27-2022 - MN)

Jay, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyers represented Defendant charged with child sexual abuse.

Defendant confessed to the crime but took the stand in his own defense.

21 O.S. 843. 5 provides:

A. Any person who shall willfully or maliciously engage in child abuse, as defined in this section, shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment in the ... More...   $0 (04-20-2022 - OK)

Baltimore, Maryland criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, kidnapping and coercion.

Joshua Lankford, a/k/a 20-20, a/k/a Ling Bright, a/k/a Yellow, age 44, led and organized a conspiracy to commit sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion and to commit kidnapping. The evidence indicated that Lankford recruited the victim, a young ... More...   $0 (04-08-2022 - MY)

Des Moines, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with sex trafficking an adult victim by force, fraud, and coercion; five years for facilitation of prostitution; and 40 years for distribution of a controlled substance to a person under the age of 21.

According to evidence presented at the four and a half-day trial and court documents submitted for sentencing, Redd u... More...   $0 (03-25-2022 - IA)

Sacramento, California criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with sex trafficking a minor.

Robert Pierre Duncan, age 26, of Sacramento was charged with of conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of a child, sex trafficking of a child, and escape from custody.

Between September and October 2018, Duncan recruited a 17-year-old girl to engage in prostitution in Oakla... More...   $0 (03-09-2022 - CA)

Tucson, Arizona criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with coercing and enticing a minor.

Sara Belen Coltz, age 38, of Norfolk, Virginia pleaded guilty to coercion and enticement of a minor.

In late 2017 through mid-2018, Coltz used a computer to communicate with the victim who was under the age of eighteen. In these communications, Coltz chatted with the victim ... More...   $0 (03-09-2022 - AZ)

Nashville, Tennessee criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with sex trafficking a minor and transportation of a minor for the purpose of engaging in prostitution. The girl was 12-years-old.

Tavarie Williams, 42, was convicted of the charges by a federal jury in February 2020 after a week-long trial.

“This is a fitting sentence for such egregious crimes,” said ... More...   $0 (03-06-2022 - TN)

New Haven, Connecticut criminal defense attorney represented defendant charged with for child sex trafficking.

In October 2019, Joseph Pina, age 24, conspired with his associate, Joel Lindsay, to recruit, entice and transport a 16-year-old girl to engage in commercial sex acts. Specifically, on October 17, 2019, Pina, Lindsay and another individual picked up the minor victim and took her... More...   $0 (03-02-2022 - CT)

Brooklyn, New York criminal defense attorney represented defendant charged with

Jose Miguel Melendez-Rojas, Jose Osvaldo Melendez-Rojas, Rosalio Melendez-Rojas, Francisco Melendez-Perez and Abel Romero-Melendez were convicted by a federal jury in March 2020 of sex trafficking, sex trafficking conspiracy, sex trafficking of minors, interstate prostitution, alien smuggling and money laund... More...   $0 (02-14-2022 - NY)

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense attorney represented Defendant, charged with:
PROCURING FOR PROSTITUTION, in violation of 21 O.S. 1081
Date of Offense: 12/10/2019

Count # 1. Count as Filed: PAN, PROCURING FOR PROSTITUTION, in violation of 21 O.S. 1081
Date of Offense: 12/10/2019
Party Name Disposition Information
HENDERSON, GERRICK LADALE Disposed: CONVICTION, 02... More...   $0 (02-07-2022 - OK)

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense attorney represented Defendant, charged with:INDECENT EXPOSURE/FELONY/AFCF, in violation of 21 O.S. 1021



Count # 1. Count as Filed: INDE, INDECENT EXPOSURE/FELONY/AFCF, in violation of 21 O.S. 1021
Date of Offense: 04/05/1997
Party Name Disposition Information
FERGUSON, SEARCY Disposed: CONVICTION, 07/22/1997. Guilty Plea
Cou... More...   $0 (02-07-2022 - OK)

Detroit, Michigan criminal defense conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking charge lawyer.

Two Detroit men were sentenced after having pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking using force and coercion, as well as firearm and controlled substance offenses.


Eligah Goodmon, 68, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Laurie Michelson to 11... More...   $0 (01-27-2022 - MI)

Seattle, Washington criminal defense attorney represented defendant charged with
fraud and identity theft.

A 33-year-old Seattle man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to three years in prison for bank fraud and aggravated identity theft, announced U.S. Attorney Nick Brown. Kevin Antoine Jones used information from a bank insider so that he and his underlings coul... More...   $0 (01-19-2022 - WA)