United States of America v. Peter Biar Ajak and Abraham Chol Keech
Phoenix, Arizona, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Conspiracy to Violate the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) and Conspiracy to Violate the Export Control Reform Act (ECRA). “From a suburb of our Nation’s capital, Peter Biar Ajak conspired to export U.S. weaponry to South Sudan, where he planned to lead a coup and install himself in power,” said Assistant Attor... More...
(02-09-2026 - AZ)United States of America v. Derrick Callella
Phoenix, Arizona, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with sent a false ransom relating to the kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie. Derrick Callella, age 42, admitted to sending the two text messages. He admitted to using the VOIP account from which two actual text messages came from. CALLELLA stated that he pulled family information from a cyber website, and that he had been fol... More...
(02-06-2026 - AZ)United States of America v. Ian William Moses
Phoenix, Arizona, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with setting fire to a Tesla vehicle and a Tesla dealership in Mesa, Arizona, on April 28, 2025.... More...
(01-16-2026 - AZ)State of Arizona v. John Lathrop
Phoenix, Arizona, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with making threats and disorderly conduct. John Lathop, age 53, got into an argument with 2-year-old Jeremiah Bagby and 19-year-old Jalen Bails-Bacchus, food court of a mall in Chandler. During the argument, Bagby and Bails-Barcchus pulled out gun that they pointed at Lathrop.... More...
(01-09-2026 - AZ)State of Arizona v. Jeremiah Bagby and Jalen Bails-Bacchus
Phoenix, Arizona, criminal defense lawyers represent the Defendants charged with aggravated assault, disorderly conduct, concealing a deadly weapon posses JJeremiah Bagby age 22 and 19-year-old Jalen Bails-Bacchus got into an argument with 53-year-old John Lathrop who tried to hit them. The responded by pulling guns that they pointed and Lathrop.... More...
(01-09-2026 - AZ)State of Arizona v. Joanna Chalup Cortez
Phoenix, Arizona, criminal defense lawyer represents Defendant charged with aggravated assault and discharging a gun inside a home. Joanna Chalup Cortez, age 29, accused for discharging a firearm during a domestic dispute that hit her son who is expected to survive.... More...
(01-09-2026 - AZ)United States of America v. Kari Eugene Leslie
Phoenix, Arizona, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with with sexual abuse and kidnapping. Karl Eugene Leslie, 42, of Whiteriver, Arizona, is charged in a 15-count indictment, returned Dec. 23, 2025, with Aggravated Sexual Abuse, Kidnapping (including one count of Kidnapping-Victim Under 18), Sexual Abuse through Fear, Sexual Abuse through Coercion, and Deprivation of Ri... More...
(01-08-2026 - AZ)Shawn Martin v. Honest Air Care and Home Services LLC, et a.l
Phoenix, Arizona, employment law lawyers represented the Plaintiff on a theory. AI Overview Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) violations involve employers failing to meet minimum wage, overtime, recordkeeping, and child labor standards, common examples including off-the-clock work, improper tip handling, misclassifying workers, and not paying correct overtime or minimum wages, leading to b... More...
$1 (12-19-2025 - AZ)Gaudencio Ramirez Lorenzo v. West Wind Logistics Incorporated, et al.
Phoenix, Arizona, personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff on an auto negligence truck wreck claim.... More...
$1 (12-19-2025 - AZ)United States of America v. Andre Maurice Taylor
Phoenix, Arizona, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with bank robbery.... More...
(12-19-2025 - AZ)United States of America v. Brooke McDonough
Phoenix, Arizona, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with one count of embezzlement by bank employee, six counts of transactional money laundering, and five counts of structuring transactions to evade reporting requirements. Starting in June 2021, Brooke McDonough, 35, of Mesa, Arizona, stole cash from the ATM machines and vault inside the branch she managed. She then ... More...
(12-18-2025 - AZ)State of Arizona v. Ian Mitcham
Phoenix, Arizona, criminal Defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with first-degree murder. Ian Mitcham was accused for killing Allison Feldman, age 33, who was beaten to death inside her home in 2015.... More...
(12-15-2025 - AZ)United States of America v. Shawntavia Maloney
Phoenix, Arizona, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud.... More...
(11-18-2025 - AZ)State of Arizona v. Thomas Zambrano
Phoenix, Arizona, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Thomas Zambrano, age 33, is accused of domestic assault and battery and threatening Mesa, Arizona police officers.... More...
(11-09-2025 - AZ)Barbara Lopez Payan v. Caitlin A. Freshwater
Phoenix, Arizona personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on an unknown legal theory. In June 2023, Officer Freshwater approached Payan and her two dogs at a police station. After their encounter, Freshwater wrote in a police report that one of Payan's dogs needed "immediate medical attention." The report also stated that Payan "could not hold a conversation," her thought... More...
(11-07-2025 - AZ)Russell Jones v. City of Tempe, et al.
Phoenix, Arizona civil litigation lawyer represented the Plaintiff seeking reimbursement for attorney fees expended in an effort to obtain body-camera footage of his arrest. Jones was arrested by the Tempe Police Department in October 2023. In December, Jones submitted a public records request for, among other things, the arresting officers' body-worn camera ("BWC") footage. Tempe filed c... More...
(11-06-2025 - AZ)State of Arizona v. Lowell Dorn
Phoenix, Arizona, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with: Two counts of Attempt to Commit First Degree Murder, a Class Two Dangerous Felony; One count of Burglary in the First Degree, a Class Two Dangerous Felony; and One count of Aggravated Assault, a Class Three Dangerous Felony. Dorn was accused of stabbing his mother in their apartment.... More...
(10-07-2025 - AZ)State of Arizona v. Mohammad Al Bishawi
Phoenix, Arizona, criminal defense lawyer representing the defendant charged with sexual assault. Mohammad Al Bishawi, 33, was arrested in connection to two separate sexual assault cases involving a East Valley Lyft rider and a Phoenix massage therapist.... More...
(10-07-2025 - AZ)United States of America v. Jose Ismael Castro-Leon
Phoenix, Arizona criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Possession with the Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine and Fentanyl. Jose Ismael Castro Leon, 47, a Mexican national living in the United States illegally, was charged by federal criminal complaint in Phoenix, Arizona with Possession with the Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine and Fentanyl. Acc... More...
(09-29-2025 - AZ)United States of America v. Mehrzad Asadi Eidivand, Linet Vartanniavartanians
Phoenix, Arizona criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with confrontation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Alien in Possession of Firearms and Ammunition Iranian Couple Pleads Guilty After June Confrontation with ICE ... More...
(08-26-2025 - AZ)Sarah Hager, et al. v. United States of America
Phoenix, Arizona personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a Federal Tort Claims Act medical malpractice theory. Sarah Hager, acting on behalf of herself and the statutory beneficiaries of her deceased husband Edward Hager, and Donna Fett claimed that Edward Hager received substandard medical care. Plaintiffs’ causation expert opined that if Hager had received co... More...
(08-18-2025 - AZ)Honor Duvall, et al. v. Phoenix Children's Hospital, et al.
Phoenix, Arizona personal injury lawyers represented the PlaintiffS who sued on intentional infliction of emotional distress theories. Plaintiffs alleged that Defendants were liable under this state law claim because their actions “in making or contributing to the making of false reports of abuse to DCS were extreme and outrageous.†However, Arizona’s mandatory reportin... More...
(08-08-2025 - AZ)Charley Johnson v. United States of America
Phoenix, Arizona real property lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued on a quite title theory. In 2006, Charley Johnson, on behalf of his trust, bought about 21 acres bordering the Tonto National Forest in Gila County, Arizona. The parcel came with a house, barn, saddle house, well, corrals, and other ranch-related improvements that the previous landowner built in the... More...
(07-28-2025 - AZ)United States of America v. Ismael Viera-Villa, Carlos Meza-Alcantar, Blademir Angulo Audeves
Phoenix, Arizona criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with Conspiracy to Transport an Illegal Alien, Transportation of an Illegal Alien for Profit, possessing firearms or ammunition as an illegal alien District of Arizona Charges 147 Individuals for Immigration-Related Cri... More...
(07-11-2025 - AZ)United States of America v. Wardy Alfonso Liberato
Phoenix, Arizona criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with illegal reetry into the United States after removal. Wardy Alfonso Liberato, a Dominican removed from the United States in 2007, was part of a group of suspected noncitizens arrested next to the U.S.-Mexico border fence in January 2023. A jury convicted him of “enter[ing]†and being... More...
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