New Haven, Connecticut criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with armed robbery. Isiah Falconer accused of shooting at a juvenile from whom is was going to buy a watch he found for sale on the Internet. When the sale wasn't going through an electronic app, Falconer pulled out a gun, which led to a struggle and the 18-year-old firing off several shots, Murgo said in the rel

Wichita, Kansas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distribution of child pornography. Benjamin Charles Fisher, 44, of Clearwater, admitted to using a social media messaging platform to correspond with other sex offenders to trade child sexual abuse materials. He used multiple alias accounts and connected to the internet from his home and from his work while committi

Honolulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with production of child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. 2251. Robert Silva, agte 52, of Waipahu, Hawaii, admitted that on multiple occasions in 2018 and 2019, he paid adults in the Philippines to sexually abuse children there during live internet video streams. While in Hawaii, Silva created recordings of thes

Green Bay, Wisconsin, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Interstate travel with intent to engage in a sexual act with a minor, coercing or enticing a minor for unlawful sexual activity, and production of child pornography. on December 23, 2025, Randi L. Cook (age: 24) of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, was charged in a criminal complaint with interstate travel with intent to e

Wilmington, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with receipt of child sexual abuse material (CSAM). the Department of Homeland Security and the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office investigated Scott Anthony Lewis, 65. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) received a Cyber Tip from Dropbox, reporting that one of its users had uploade

Albany, New York, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distribution of child pornography. Thomas J. Meehan, age 36, of Valatie, New York, who is alleged to have been selling child sexual abuse material (CSAM) depicting victims less than 13 years old over the internet for at least two years. Numerous images and videos of CSAM were also found on the defendant’s cell pho

New York City, New York, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with six counts of activities relating to material constituting child porno. Edward Gene Smith was charged with drugging a female victim (“Victim-1”) with the intent to rape her, sex trafficking another female victim (“Victim-2”), enticing Victim-2 to travel to engage in unlawful sexual activity, receipt

Miami, Florida, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with conspiring to obstruct, delay or affect commerce through extortion in connection with ransomware attacks occurring in 2023. Ryan Goldberg, 40, of Georgia, Kevin Martin, 36, of Texas, and another co-conspirator successfully deployed the ransomware known as ALPHV BlackCat between April 2023 and December 2023 agains

New Brunswick, New Jersey, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with online child exploitation. Middlesex County Prosecutor announced that twelve arrests of alleged child predators were made in “Operation Bad Santa,” a multi-agency undercover operation targeting people who allegedly were using social media and various online messaging applications in an attempt to lu

Sioux City, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with one count of possession of child pornography. From early May 2023, through April 3, 2024, Kenneth Brown, 60, from Badger, Iowa, received and possessed child pornography. A CyberTip to law enforcement revealed 32 files of child pornography had been uploaded to the internet from Brown’s cell phone. Brown was a vo

Cincinnati, Ohio, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with child exploitation and pornography crimes for allegedly hiding spy cameras in the house of minor victims. Between 2021 and 2025, on multiple occasions the family of teenaged victims found hidden cameras in the minors’ bedrooms. David Mitsnefes, age 32, allegedly used wifi to save videos of the minor occupants in

Wichita, Kansas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with defrauding a victim while posing as federal law enforcement officials.. 18:1349 Wire Fraud Conspiracy (Indictment filed 12/22/2025) (1) 18:1951(a) Interference with Commerce by Threat (Indictment filed 12/22/2025) (2) Venkateswara Reddy Chagamreddy, 27, of San Antonio, Texas, and Sai Praveen Kommana, 29

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with count of receipt and attempted receipt of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography. Ricahrd Adamsky, age 55, of Adamsky, Pennsylvainak was indicted on September of 2025, for knowingly receiving a visual depiction of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct on or about June 1

Albany, New York, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with travel with intent to engage in unlawful sexual conduct and transportation of child pornography. Michael Fegley, Jr., age 31, of Tampa, Florida, admitted that he traveled from Florida to the Northern District of New York intending to engage in unlawful sexual conduct with a purported 13-year-old child. He also a

Brooklyn, New York, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexual exploitation of a child, attempted sexual exploitation of a child, and coercion and enticement of minors. “The defendant is a serial predator whose playbook of using social media to meet vulnerable minor girls, and then groom and exploit them for his own sexual gratification, is a parent’s nightmare,

Boise, Idaho, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possessing child sexual abuse material. An investigation began when Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI”) received CyberTip reports from an online messaging platform. A CyberTip is a report submitted to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (“NCMEC”). NCMEC gathers leads and tips regarding

San Jose, California, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged wittwo counts of willful destruction of an energy facility related to two separate bombings of PG&E electrical transformers in late 2022 and early 2023. U.S. District Judge Beth Labson Freeman handed down the sentence. “Peter Karasev’s attacks on critical infrastructure were direct threats to public safety and n

Peoria, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with perpetrating a wire fraud and identity theft scheme starting as early as August 2020 and continuing to August 2024. Stephen H. Keith, age 35, of East Peoria, Illinois ran a company called DeviceLyfe that was never registered with the State of Illinois. According to the indictment, Keith used that purported company

Greenville, Mississippi, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with producing images of a child during his sexual assault of the victim and distributing child sexual abuse material through a mobile messaging application. The investigation of Keith Blake Clifton, 31, began after the National Center of Missing and Exploited Children alerted law enforcement authorities that a

Dallas, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with two counts of production of child pornography. In 2023, Victor Torres paid two different 13-to-14-year-old children to produce sexually explicit material to send to him online. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) discovered Torres’s criminal activity when they received a CyberTip from an online money exchange pl

Dallas, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distribution of child pornography. Skyler Shoemaker, age 34, of Colorado City, Texas, used Facebook Messenger to send a sexually explicit video of a four- to six-year-old child to his girlfriend, Angel Bradford. Additionally, information presented at the sentencing hearing indicated that Shoemaker used various platfo

Burlington, Vermont, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempting to entice a minor to produce child sexual abuse materials (CSAM, also known as child pornography). Jason McGrath, age 45, of South Burlington, Vermont corresponded with two people via an internet messaging application, offering to pay money for the production of original CSAM. McGrath sent money to th

Concord, New Hampshire, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexual exploitation of minors. David Mendum, age 39, of Harrisonville, New Hampshire, was accused of paying a child sex trafficker in the Philippines to create live-stream child sexual abuse material and transmit it to him over the internet. “Today’s sentence reflects the profound seriousness of this

Mobile, Alabama, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexual exploitation and attempted enticement of a minor. Logan Smith, age 38, first came to law enforcement attention following a report that he had been distributing child pornography via the internet. Further investigation revealed that he had been communicating with a minor victim living out of state over a peri

Cheyenne, Wyoming, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distribution of child pornography. The Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force (ICAC) received eight CyberTip reports between December 2024 and March 2025. The reports had been submitted to NCMEC from MediaLab/Kik and appeared to be related through common email