Legal News for Lexington, Kentucky
Fayette County
United States of America v. Hao Qiu
Lexington, Kentucky, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with international parental kidnapping. Reported by Kent Morlan Hao Qiu, age 39, a citizen of China, has three children with a United States citizen who resided in Fayette County. Qiu and the children’s mother negotiated an agreement, through their attorneys in a custody case, for Qiu to drive the children on a ... More...
(05-16-2026 - KY)United States of America v. Brailen Weaver
Lexington, Kentucky, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with armed bankruptcy. By Kent Morlan Brailen Weaver entered a US Bank in Berea, Ky, on April 30, 2026, at approximately 1:57 p.m. Upon entering the bank, Weaver immediately shot and killed a bank employee and then killed a bank teller. Weaver checked multiple drawers in the bank and immediately left. Investigators... More...
(05-07-2026 - KY)United States of America v. Terence Lorenzo Clemons
Lexington, Kentucky, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with production of visual depictions involving a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct. Terence Lorenzo Clemons, 52, of Lexington, Kentucky was a County Extension Agent that operated 4-H programs in the Bath County School System. In April 2024, Clemons began a romantic “relationship” with a minor victim in t... More...
(04-27-2026 - KY)United States of America v. Dashawn Dawkins
Lexington, Kentucky, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with health care fraud and engaging in a conspiracy to pay kickbacks. Dashawn Dawkins, 34, was a peer support specialist at Serenity Keeper’s, LLC (“Serenity Keepers”), a sober home company based in Fayette County, Ky., that purported to provide mental health and substance abuse treatment services and housing f... More...
(04-02-2026 - KY)United States of America v. Dashawn Dawkins
Lexington, Kentucky, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit health care fraud and violating the anti-kickback statute. Dashawn Dawkins, 34, was a peer support specialist at Serenity Keeper’s, LLC (“Serenity Keepers”), a sober home company based in Fayette County, Ky., that purported to provide mental health and substance abuse treatment servic... More...
(04-02-2026 - KY)Verity Investigations, LLC v. Segepo-FSM, Inc.
Lexington, Kentucky, commercial litigation lawyers represented the Plaintiff on a qui tam (whistleblower) claim. Segepo-FSM, Inc. was accused of falsely certifying it was eligible to apply for and receive forgiveness of its $503,900 second-draw PPP loan. Segepo-FSM, Inc. stated that it had fewer than 300 employees in its application. At the time of its loan and forgiveness applications, Segepo... More...
(03-26-2026 - KY)United States of America v. Israel Ortiz Velasco
Lexington, Kentucky, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with money laundering conspiracy and a conspiracy to import controlled substances into the United States, including 400 grams or more of fentanyl and five kilograms or more of cocaine. From approximately June to December 2017, Israel Ortiz Velasco, 33, agreed with others to distribute fentanyl and cocaine, knowing an... More...
(01-23-2026 - KY)United States of America v. Tommy Martin
Lexington, Kentucky, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with multiple counts of distributing and possessing with the intent to distribute methamphetamine; possessing, carrying, and using firearms in furtherance of and during and in relation to his drug trafficking crimes; and possession of multiple firearms by a convicted felon. On September 24, 2025, Tommy Martin, 70, ... More...
(01-16-2026 - KY)United States of America v. Larry Walden
Lexington, Kentucky, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering, by committing crop insurance fraud. Larry Walden, age 69, owned and rented farmland in Barren County, on which he grew burley tobacco, among other crops. He maintained insurance coverage over his tobacco crop from at least 2014 to 2023. For Crop Years 2014 through 2019, Wa... More...
(12-22-2025 - ky)United States of America v. Heng Yin
Lexington, Kentucky, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud.... More...
(11-25-2025 - KY)United States of America v. Quinton D. Foreman
Lexington, Kentucky, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with being felony in possession of a firearm. ... More...
(11-25-2025 - KY)Commonwealth of Kentucky v. William Rutherford
Lexington, Kentucky, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with two counts of conspiracy first-degree wanton endangerment for discharging a firearm, and engaging in organized crime. William Rutherford, age 22, was arrested and charged in connection to three gang-related shootings in Lexington that happened in April 2025, ... More...
(11-05-2025 - KY)United States of America v. Davon S. Tooley
Lexington, Kentucky, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with for possession of a firearm as a convicted felon. In April 2022, Tooley's car struck a truck. Tooley asked the truck driver not to call the police because he had drugs and a firearm in his car, but the driver declined his request and called the police. Tooley fled on foot but was quickly apprehend... More...
(10-24-2025 - KY)Reuben Jelani Adams, et al. v. Lexington-Dayette Urban County Government, et al.
Lexington, Kentucky, personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiffs on civil rights violation theories. Plaintiffs are five football players at the University of Kentucky ("UKâ€) who were subject to racial taunts and physical violence at a fraternity-sponsored party. Yet after the altercation, defendant Detective Cory Vinlove, a Lexington police officer, initiated criminal charges... More...
(10-15-2025 - KY)United States of America v. Richard Jackson
Lexington, Kentucky criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distributing drugs. On January 30, 2024, Jackson and Terrance Wallace traveled together by car from Dayton, Ohio to a parking lot in Nicholasville, Kentucky, where they sold approximately 223 grams of a mixture containing methamphetamine for $1,400 to an individual acting as a confidential informant for loc... More...
(08-26-2025 - KY)Deborah Halstead v. Director of Workers' Compensation Programs, United States Department of Labor; Peaboy Coal Company, LL; Peabody Investment, Inc.
Lexington, Kentucky workers' compensation law lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a black lung claim. Deborah Halstead petitioned for review of the Benefits Review Board's (BRB) decision and order affirming the Administrative Law Judge's (ALJ) denial of black lung benefits pursuant to 30 U.S.C. §§ 901-944. Our review of the BRB's decision is limited to considering "whether substanti... More...
(08-22-2025 - KY)United States of America v. Markwez Wynn, Stephen Hampton
Lexington, Kentucky criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Tennessee Men Sentenced for Bank Robbery Spree in Tennessee, Indiana, and Kentucky Two Nashville, Te... More...
(07-21-2025 - KY)United States of America v. Irene Michelle Fike
Lexington, Kentucky criminal defense lawyers represented the Defend charged with fraud. From 2016 to 2021, Fike worked at an accounting firm, where she performed bookkeeping tasks for one of the firm's clients, J.M. and J.M.'s family. When Fike left the firm in 2021, J.M. hired her as an independent contractor, entrusting her to pay bills, update financial records, and complete other book... More...
(06-10-2025 - KY)Joseph Ebu v. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service, et al.
Lexington, Kentucky immigration lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a naturalization law issue. Plaintiff Joseph Ebu, a lawful permanent resident, was subject to concurrent naturalization and removal proceedings. Believing that the pending removal proceedings took priority over his naturalization application, defendant United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)... More...
(04-16-2025 - KY)United States of America v. Eric Kelsey Shepherd
Lexington, Kentucky criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Production of Child Pornography Lexington Man Sentenced for Production of Child Pornography A Lexington man, Eric Kelsey Shepherd, 30, was sentenced to ... More...
(04-08-2025 - KY)United States of America v. Sanchaze Roberts
Lexington, Kentucky criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Methamphetamine and Fentanyl Trafficking Lexington Man Sentenced for Methamphetamine and Fentanyl Trafficking On August 14, 2024, law enforcement, using... More...
(02-14-2025 - KY)United States of America v. Adam Pursifull
Lexington, Kentucky criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of a firearm as a prohibited person. Lexington Man Sentenced for Illegal Firearm Offense A Lexington man, Adam Pursifull, 40, was indicted f... More...
(02-14-2025 - KY)United States of America v. Gene Primus
Lexington, Kentucky criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Drug Trafficking Cincinnati Man Sentenced for Drug Trafficking Gene Primus, 32, was indicted for possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more o... More...
(02-14-2025 - KY)United States of America v. Eugene Laron Fishback
Lexington, Kentucky criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Trafficking in Fentanyl and Carfentanil Lexington Man Sentenced for Trafficking in Fentanyl and Carfentanil A Lexington man, Eugene Laron Fishback, 32, ... More...
(01-27-2025 - KY)United States of America v. Samuel C. Atkins
Lexington, Kentucky criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Fentanyl Trafficking and Firearms Possession Pikeville Man Sentenced to 33 Years for Fentanyl Trafficking and Firearms Possession Samuel C. Atkins, 52,... More...
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