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State of North Carolina v. Deon Lee Muckelvene
Asheville, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury, a Class E felony. Deon Lee Muckelvene, 41, accused of stabbing that left a man with a knife protruding from his head in downtown Asheville in 2025.... More...
(03-14-2026 - NC)State of South Carolina v. Michael Solomon Brocenos, Tyler Byrne Hackett Kelly, and Emily Kathryn Murphy
Asheville, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with ethnic intimidation. Michael Solomon Brocenos, 34, Tyler Byrne Hackett Kelly, 33, and Emily Kathryn Murphy, 38, allegedly assaulted a group of attendees live-streaming the seminar on June 29, 2024, titled "Strategic Lessons from the Palestinian Resistance," hosted by the Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfa... More...
(03-14-2026 - NC)United States of America v. Aviel Gonzalez-Ruiz
Asheville, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with reentry of deported alien and with unlawful transport of a firearm.... More...
(01-23-2026 - NC)United States of America v. Jeraldine Agnes Geldner
Asheville, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud. Jeraldine Agnes Geldner, 73, worked as a contracted bookkeeper for three small businesses. As part of her duties, Geldner was responsible for handling the businesses’ accounts payable, payroll, and filing of tax returns. From 2019 through 2024, Geldner engaged in a scheme to defraud and embe... More...
(01-22-2026 - NC)State of North Carolina v. Douglas Michael Stroupe
Asheville, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with murder. Douglas Michael Stroupe was accused for killing 45-year-old Rose Garard who was stabbed to death.... More...
(11-21-2025 - NC)United States of America v. Zachery Micah Rice
Asheville, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with trafficking methamphetamine Methamphetamine Distributor Is Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison ... More...
(08-21-2025 - NC)United States of America v. Juve Markie Lequan McAlpin
Asheville, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Firearm Possession Convicted Felon On Federal Supervision Is Sentenced To 15 Years In Prison For Firearm Possession ... More...
(08-20-2025 - NC)United States of America v. Cristian Cabera-Rivas, /k/a Christian Cabrera-Rivas, a/k/a Christian Alberto Lopez
Charlotte, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with one count of conspiring to possess and distribute over fifty grams of methamphetamine and one count of possessing over fifty grams of methamphetamine with intent to distribute. See 21 U.S.C. §§ 841, 846. Cabrera-Rivas grew up in Honduras. His formal schooling ended in third grade; he st... More...
(07-03-2025 - NC)United States of America v. Valachie Wendell Hendon
Asheville, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with: 21:841(a)(1) - DISTRIBUTION OF FENTANYL (1-3) 18:922(g)(1) - POSSESSION OF A FIREARM BY A FELON (4) 21:841(a)(1) - DISTRIBUTION OF METHAMPHETAMINE AND FENTANYL (5) 18:922(g)(1) - POSSESSION OF A FIREARM BY A FELON (6) 18:924(c)(1)(A) - POSSESSION OF A FIREA... More...
(05-20-2025 - NC)united States ex rel. Lisa Wheeler, et al. v. Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc., et al.
Asheville, North Carolina qui tam lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued in fraud theories. Congress enacted the False Claims Act in 1863 to provide a mechanism for the government to redress fraud in government procurement during the Civil War. Congress substantially strengthened the Act with the passage of the False Claims Act of 1986, and further strengthened it with the ... More...
(02-18-2025 - NC)United States of America v. Shafeeq Muhammad
Asheville, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with charged with conspiracy to distribute cocaine, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846. Defendant pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 190 months in prison, followed by four years of supervise rlease. After his release from incarceration, the district court twice revoked Muhammad's supervised re... More...
(12-19-2024 - NC)State of North Carolina v. Ricky Francis Rawson, Jr.
Asheville, North Carolina violation of domestic violence protective order criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant. Defendant appeals from his 15 December 2022 conviction on a single charge of violating a domestic violence protective order ("DVPO") under N.C. G.S. § 50B-4.1(a) in Buncombe County Superior Court. The trial in Superior Court was held pursuant t... More...
(09-17-2024 - NC)United States of America v. Michael Lamar Gaines
Stateville, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Methamphetamine And An Illegal Firearm ... More...
(08-28-2024 - NC)United States of America v. Elizabeth Gabrielle Mann
Asheville, North Caolina criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with drug trafficking. For more than a year prior to November 10, 2020, Federal, State, and Local law enforcement agencies investigated a methamphetamine trafficking organization in Western North Carolina. [Doc. 739 at ¶ 46]. During this investigation, law enforcement learned t... More...
(07-02-2024 - NC)United States of America v. Larry Edward Wood
Asheville, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer Eric J. (Rick) Foster represented the Defendant charged with Methamphetamine Trafficking ... More...
(05-02-2024 - NC)Farron Bunch, et al. v. Switchcars, Inc. and Douglas Arthur Tabbutt
Asheville, North Carolina personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on auto negligence theories. North Carolina negligence laws follow the doctrine of pure contributory negligence, which bars recovery by the plaintiff if they're just partially at fault (even as little as 1%).... More...
$1 (04-17-2024 - NC)RDL v. Social Security Administration
Asheville, North Carolina social security disability lawyer represented Plaintiff seeking review of the denial of his application for Social Security: DIWC/DIWW benefits by HHS.... More...
(08-04-2023 - NC)United States of America v. Danquon Shermaine Brown
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 poss... More...
(06-02-2023 - NC)Kim Shook, Kylie Scolaro-Conti and John Szwyd v. NCG Acquisition, LLC, et al.
Asheville, North Carolina civil rights lawyers represented Plaintiffs who sued defendants on wrongful discharge theories. On March 24, 2022, the Plaintiffs filed this action against the Defendants, asserting claims for wrongful discharge in violation of North Carolina public policy and for intentional infliction of emotional distress. [Doc. 1]. On May 10, 2022, the Defendants moved t... More...
(04-14-2023 - NC)United States of America v. Rebecca Lynn Barker
Asheville, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy that trafficked methamphetamine in Haywood, Buncombe, and Jackson Counties as well as Georgia. Rebecca Lynn Barker, age 50, of Sylvaia, North Carolina, was part of a drug trafficking organization that sold drugs to law enforcement undercover officers. The execution of a search warrant determin... More...
(04-13-2023 - NC)United States of America v. Jorge Luis Perez
Asheville, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with drug and gun felonies. Between May and July 2020, Jorge Luis Perez, age 36, of Wimauma, Florida, distributed methamphetamine, heroin and fentanyl in Jackson and Swain Counties. Law enforcement conducting an investigation into drug trafficking networks operating in Western North Carolina learned of Perez's... More...
(04-03-2023 - NC)United States of America v. Laddie Dwayne McMillian and Derrick Twitty
Asheville, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with engaging in dog fighting and related criminal conduct. Laddie Dwayne McMillian, 47, will serve 16 months in prison and Derrick Twitty, 48, will serve six months in prison. Both defendants will serve two years of supervised release following the completion of their sentences and are prohibited from possess... More...
(03-03-2023 - NC)United States of America v. Phyllis Ann Garcia
Asheville, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with MoreLaw Legal News For Asheville Between 2020 and 2021, Phyllis Ann Garcia, 31, of Hudson, N.C., and her co-conspirat... More...
(02-03-2023 - NC)United States of America v. Tarrell Leshaun Williams
Asheville, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. MoreLaw Legal News For Asheville According to filed court documents, tr... More...
(01-11-2023 - NC)Joseph Steven Holcombe v. The Baltmore Company, LLC
Asheville, North Carolina personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a negligence theory claiming to have suffered more than $75,000 in injuries and/or damages as a direct result of an accident. MoreLaw Legal News For Ashevill ... More...
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