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United States of America v. Leonard Polk

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Coercion and Enticement of a Minor.

A Warm Springs, Oregon, man was sentenced to federal prison today for using online social media and messaging platforms to coerce and sexually exploit a 15-year-old minor victim.

Leonard Polk, 25, was sentenced to 135 months in federal prison and 10 years of supervi

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United States of America v. Alexander Jay Boyce

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with assaulting a federal officer.

A Portland man made his first appearance in federal court today after assaulting a federal officer near a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office in South Portland.

Alexander Jay Boyce, 38, has been charged by criminal complaint with the felony offense of as

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State of Oklahoma v. Bryan Leroy Castner

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with:

FELON IN POSSESSION OF A FIREARM(AFCF), in violation of 21 O.S. 1272-1289.28;
POSSESS OR CONCEAL STOLEN PROPERTY- UNDER $1000, in violation of 21 O.S. 1713(A); and
DISCHARGING A FIREARM IN A PUBLIC PLACE, in violation of 21 O.S. 1364

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United States of America v. Jonathan Rinderknecht, a.k.a. “Jonathan Rinder,” and “Jon Rinder,”

Los Angeles, California criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with destruction of property by means of fire.

A former Pacific Palisades resident now living in Florida has been arrested on a federal criminal complaint charging him with maliciously starting what eventually became the Palisades Fire of January 2025, one of the most destructive wildfires in Los Angeles his

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State of Arkansas v. Sheneice Robinson

Conway, Arkansas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with felony theft of property.

Sheneice Robinson, 33, of Little Rock was arrested by the Little Rock Police Department. Robinson was charged:
• in Faulkner County with two felony counts of engaging in a continuing criminal gang, organization, or enterprise, and two felony counts of theft of property;

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United States of America v. Gary Wilds

St. Louis, MO criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Conspiracy to Fraudulently Register Vehicles in Missouri.

U.S. District Judge Matthew T. Schelp on Tuesday sentenced a man to five years in prison for bribing employees of Missouri motor vehicle license offices to fraudulently register motor vehicles.

Judge Schelp also ordered Gary Wilds, 48, to pay res

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United States of America v. Emma M. Cunningham, Jervonz L. Williams

St. Louis, Missouri, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged who attempted to kidnap and rob a St. Louis apartment property manager at gunpoint.

Two people who attempted to kidnap and rob a St. Louis apartment property manager at gunpoint in 2024 have been sentenced to prison for that and other crimes.

U.S. District Judge Matthew T. Schelp on Tuesday sentenced

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United States of America v. Gary Wilds

St. Loui, Missouri criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with

U.S. District Judge Matthew T. Schelp on Tuesday sentenced a man to five years in prison for bribing employees of Missouri motor vehicle license offices to fraudulently register motor vehicles.

Judge Schelp also ordered Gary Wilds, 48, to pay restitution of $335,218, including $319,778 to the stat

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Ann Barclay Dewet, et al. v. G. Russell Rollyson, Jr., et al.

Bluefield, West Virginia, civil rights lawyers represented the Plaintiff on a 42 U.S.C. 1983 taking without due process.


Smith owned real property in West Virginia. She failed to pay the real estate taxes
assessed for 2016, and the Mercer County Sheriff sold a tax lien on the property to Boer.

Boer then sought a tax deed to the property. He prepared a list of those to be

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State of Oklahoma v. B.M.

Pryor, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with trespassing on GRDA property.

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State of Oklahoma v. J.P.T.

Pryor, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer Kent Morlan represented the Defendant charged with trespassing on GRDA property to fish.

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United States of America v. Kelly Ballinger

Portland, Maine criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Embezzlement

A Glenburn woman was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Portland for embezzling from an organization receiving federal funds and conspiring to alter money orders.

U.S. District Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. sentenced Kelly Ballinger, 59, to 60 months in prison to be followed by three

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United States of America v. Tochuwku Albert Nnebocha

Miami, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with operating a transnational inheritance fraud scheme.

Tochuwku Albert Nnebocha, 43, of Nigeria was extradited from the Republic of Poland and faces federal charges of engaging in a transnational criminal organization that operated an inheritance fraud scheme that cheated many American seniors out of their savings.

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United States of America v. Tomas Plancarte-Benson

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Assaulting Federal Law Enforcement Officer Near Local ICE Office.

A Portland man made his first appearance in federal court today after assaulting a federal officer near a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office in South Portland.

Tomas Plancarte-Benson, 37, has been charged by criminal

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State of Oklahoma v. Sara Starling Fitzgerald

Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with embezzlement by employee in violation of 21 O.S. 1461, which provides:

A. Embezzlement is the fraudulent appropriation of property of any person or legal entity, legally obtained, to any use or purpose not intended or authorized by its owner, or the secretion of the property with the fraudulent intent to appro

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State of Oklahoma v. M.B.B.

Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer Robbi Barker represented the Defendant charged with:

False declaration of ownership in a pawn shop and Receiving and/or concealing stolen property under $1,000.

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State of Oklahoma v. Lorlei Dyanna Sontag

Claremore, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with:

Count # 1. Count as Filed: ES6, ELUDING/ ATTEMPTING TO ELUDE POLICE OFFICER, in violation of 21 O.S. 540A
Date of Offense: 01/10/2024
Party Name Disposition Information
Sontag, Lorlei Dyanna
Count # 2. Count as Filed: DI1, DRIVING A MOTOR VEHICLE WHILE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF ALCOHOL

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United States of America v. Ray Collins, Jocelyne Robledo, Paul Ivery, Dana Briggs, Hubert Mazur

Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with forcibly resisting federal agents
Five individuals have been charged in federal court in Chicago with assaulting or forcibly resisting federal agents who were engaged in immigration enforcement operations in Broadview, Ill. over the weekend.

The defendants were among a crowd of people who descended in

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United States of America v. Crandall Speights

Wilmington, Delaware criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with filing false claims on government benefit programs

U.S. Attorney Julianne E. Murray of the District of Delaware announced today that a Wilmington man was sentenced on September 18, 2025, to 70 months in prison for amassing over $900,000 in fraudulent proceeds through multiple fraud schemes over the course

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State of Missouri v. Orlando C. Moore, Jr.

Kennett, Missouri, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with second-degree domestic violence and first-degree property damage.

The victim contacted the police and reported incidents of domestic violence committed by Orlando C. Moore, Jr. in December 2022 and in January 2023.

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United States of America v. Robert Orvaets

Cleveland, Ohio criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with felon in possession of fiarearm and ammunition.

Robert Oravets committed a series of serious felonies. He claims that the Second Amendment nonetheless protects his right to possess a firearm.

Six years ago, Ohio indicted Oravets on two counts of drug trafficking with a firearm. Prosecutors dropped the

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United States of America v. Yesenia Melendez Rincon

New Haven, CT criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Nationwide Jewelry Theft Ring

David X. Sullivan, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that YESENIA MELENDEZ RINCON, 41, a citizen of Colombia last residing in Kissimmee, Florida, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to 24 months of impriso

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Mesquite Asset Recovery Group, LLC, et al. v. City of Mesquite, Texas

Dallas, Texas, civil litigation lawyers represented the parties in breach of contract theory.

In 2008, Appellants purchased from the City approximately 60.31
acres of land in Mesquite, Texas (the Property), the majority of which sits on
a federally designated flood zone. Appellants also applied for and received
from the City a variance waiving their obligation to obtain a Cond

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United States of America v. Casey Robert Goonan

San Francisco, California criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Firebombing University Police Car And Attempting To Firebomb Oakland Federal Building

Casey Robert Goonan was sentenced today to 235 months in federal prison for committing a series of arsons and firebombings at the University of California, Berkeley and the Oakland federal building in June 2024. Sen

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United States of America v. Danny Lawrence Newton

Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempted receipt of child pornography in violation of 18 USC 2252(a)(2) and 2252(b)(1)

18 U.S. Code § 2252, "Certain activities relating to material involving the sexual exploitation of minors," criminalizes the production, distribution, and possession of child pornography.

The law applies to cr

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