Legal News for Chapel Hill, North Carolina
State of North Carolina v. Malasia Brianna Coleman
Nashville, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with failure to properly store a firearm under North Carolina law, a Class 1 misdemeanor. Malasia Brianna Coleman's son got on a bus taking students to M.B. Hubbard Elementary School in Battleboro carrying a gun. Another student thought that his book bag weighed too much.... More...
(05-01-2026 - NC)State of North Carolina v. Dylan Warbritton
Jacksonville, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represents the defendant charged with communicating threats and cyberstalking. Dylan Warbritton, age 23, accused of sending threatening text messages to the victim, including messages that threatened physical harm. * * * North Carolina, stalking is defined as willfully following, harassing, or intimidating another person on more than ... More...
(04-29-2026 - NC)United States of America v. Kenta Montrice Wright
Charlotte, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distribution of methampletamine.... More...
(04-24-2026 - NC)State of North Carolina v. Peter Alphonso Blake
Smithfield, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with forceable rape, first-degree kidnapping, first-degree burglary and involuntary sexual servitude. Peter Alphonso Blake, age 33, is a former police officer, is accused of breaking into a home on April 8 with the intention of raping and subjecting the victim to sexual servitude.... More...
(04-24-2026 - NC)United States of America v. Timarcus Lavonnte Britt
Raleigh, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with interference with commerce by robbery; and aiding and abetting, brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence. Three individuals including Timarcus Lavonnte Britt, 29, Jaliek Grant, and a juvenile, engaged in a spree of five attempted armed robberies on July 11, 2023, between 1 and 4 a.... More...
(04-24-2026 - NC)United States of America v. Jennifer Fox and Michael Isaac Robinson
Asheville, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distributing drugs. Beginning in July 2022, law enforcement began investigating Jennifer Fox and Michael Isaac Robinson’s drug trafficking activities in and around Asheville. Investigators learned that the defendants supplied methamphetamine to a network of local distributors. The investigation revealed ... More...
(04-15-2026 - NC)United States of America v. Jeremy Hinton
Wilmington, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering. The Raleigh Police Department (RPD) and ATF conducted two controlled purchases of fentanyl from Inmate Hinton. During the second controlled purchase, Inmate Hinton also sold a Glock 36 handgun. When law enforcement ultimately tried to pull Inmate Hinton over to arre... More...
(04-14-2026 - NC)United States of America v. Erica McMillian
New Bern, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud. Erica McMillian, a Robeson County woman, submitted a fraudulent EIDL loan application for a fictitious business located in Robeson County. To obtain the $150,000 loan, McMillian made false representations concerning the number of employees and gross revenues of the business.... More...
(04-10-2026 - NC)United States of America v. Fortunato Beltran
Wilmington, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to sell methamphetamine and fentanyl and selling both. Fortunato Beltran, 45, was accused of operating a drug trafficking organization that ship tens pounds and hundreds pounds of fentanyl and methamphetamine to Eastern North Carolina. Inmate Beltran orchestrated bulk shipments of methamphetami... More...
(04-08-2026 - NC)United States of America v. Saheed Sunday Owolabi
Wilmington, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Saheed Sunday Owolabi, a Nigerian national, pretended to be a woman to build online relationships with men in the United States, a scheme known as a romance scam. He and his co-conspirators used these fake relationships to cheat victims into sending mo... More...
(03-31-2026 - NC)United States of America v. Roderick Michael Bates
Raleigh, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempted wire and identity fraud. Roderick Michael Bates, 55, used stolen identities with fake driver’s licenses to secure financing for farm machinery and equipment from a local Sampson County business. Using these identities, he fraudulently purchased high-value items totaling more than $65,000, includi... More...
(03-25-2026 - NC)State of North Carolina v. Quintin Deandre Hairston
Greenville, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with felony conspiracy to commit robbery with a dangerous weapon; two counts of robbery with a dangerous weapon; assault with a deadly weapon with the intent to kill inflicting serious injury; attempted first-degree murder; and first-degree burglary. In July 2020, defendant, Zyquez McMillan, Micah Mims, and ... More...
(03-24-2026 - NC)United States of America v. Andre Whitehurst
Charlotte, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with theft of mail by a postal employee and conspiracy to commit bank fraud. From April 2022 to September 2024, Andre Whitehurst, 34, of Charlotte, conspired with Rashad Lowery, Aaron Grice, and others to execute a bank fraud scheme involving stolen mail. Whitehurst used his position as a U.S. Postal Service cl... More...
(03-24-2026 - NC)State of North Carolina v. Herman Anthony Maynor
Nashville, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury, possession of a firearm by a felon, and attaining the states of a habitual felon. On 6 February 2023, Defendant was indicted for assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury, discharging a firearm within city limits in vi... More...
(03-24-2026 - NC)United States of America v. Tracey Hernandez
Greensboro, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with aiding and assisting the filing of a false tax return. Aents with the Internal Revenue Service – Criminal Investigation Division (“IRS-CI”) began investigating Tracey Hernandez, 39, for preparing and filing IRS false income tax returns for her clients. Hernandez acted as a “ghost preparer,” meani... More...
(03-24-2026 - NC)State of North Carolina v. Michael Aaron McDuffie
Ashevboro, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with trafficking in heroin by possession. On 6 December 2021, a Randolph County grand jury indicted defendant on one count each of trafficking opium or heroin, maintaining a vehicle for keeping or selling controlled substances, and possession with intent to manufacture, sell, or deliver heroin.... More...
(03-24-2026 - NC)United States of America v. Rick Derrell McIntyre
Raleigh, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to sell and possess with intent to sell 50 grams or more of methamphetamine and selling of 50 grams or more of meth. The Fayetteville Police Department (FPD), the FBI, and other law enforcement agencies identified Inmate Rick Derrell McIntyre as the head of a large-scale drug trafficking organizat... More...
(03-20-2026 - NC)United States of America v. Ricky McMillian, Erica McMillian, Dwayne McMillian and Darian McMillian
Wilmington, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud. A Robeson County Deputy Sheriff Ricky McMillian, his wife, and two adult sons engaged in a scheme to defraud the Small Business Administration’s Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) and Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and by submitting false loan applications which r... More...
(03-14-2026 - NC)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)State of North Carolina v. Mikah Brondyke
Raleigh, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with sex crimes against children. Former Wake County school teacher and youth pastor accused of committing sex crimes against children.... More...
(03-04-2026 - NC)United States of America v. Fredy Mauricio Buruca, a/k/a “Piranha,” “Machete,” and “Insoportable” and Santos Guillermo Ramirez Mancia, a/k/a “Azazel,” “Timido,” and “Johnny”
Charlotte, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant's charged with conspiracy to conduct affairs of an enterprise through a pattern of racketeering activities. Fredy Mauricio Buruca, a/k/a “Piranha,” “Machete,” and “Insoportable,” 27, of El Salvador, was sentenced to 30 years in prison followed by three years of supervised release. He was also ordered to re... More...
(02-24-2026 - NC)United States of America v. Rodney Jamine Moore, Jr.
Greensboro, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with felony possession of a firearm. On April 29, 2024, just before noon, a man, later identified as Rodney Jamine Moore, Jr., age 60 of High Point, North Carolina, was reported to be randomly firing a gun outside of High Point Housing Authority’s Astor Dowdy Tower. High Point Police Department officers resp... More...
(02-24-2026 - NC)United States of America v. Eugene Montale Jenkins
Raleigh, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possessing with intent to distribute forty (40) grams or more of a mixture and substance containing fentanyl and ANPP, an a quality of marijuana. Eugene Montale Jenkins, age 36, was a known drug dealer In Edgecombe County who had sold fentanyl, marijuana, cocaine, and crack in from his trap house for a whi... More...
(02-24-2026 - NC)United States of America v. David Ryan Winters
Raleigh, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with cyber-stalking, harassing, and threatening gay men on line int the Raleigh-Durham area. David Ryan Winters, age 40, became enraged at the gay community in Raleigh-Durham for perceived slights. Starting around 2016, Winters began stalking gay men online and in person, including by showing up at victims’ hom... More...
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