Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of 500 grams or more of methamphetamine with intent to distribute. On March 11, 2026, an Oklahoma Highway Patrol (OHP) trooper pulled over a red semi-truck with trailer in Custer County, Oklahoma. The driver, JOSE CARLOS MORALES-GUTIERREZ, 31, a Mexican national, who, did not have a valid driver�

Great Falls, Montana, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with aggravated assault and battery with a dangerous weapon in Indian Country. On July 17, 2024, Jane Doe 1 and James “Jimmy” Has The Eagle, Jr., 41, caught a ride to a residence in Lodgepole. Has The Eagle started getting angry at Jane Doe 1 and started beating on her in the vehicle. When they got close to the

Columbus, Ohio, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with secretly recorded young girls nude and committed hands-on offenses of a teenager. Johnathan Brown, 34, hid outside bedroom windows and placed cameras inside a laundry basket to record minors after they exited from showers. He told victims he needed to see their bodies for “medical reasons.” Brown also groomed

Billings, Montana, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with carjacking resulting in death. Violet Jeanee Littlelight, 22, arranged for John Doe to pick her up at her residence in Billings. Prior to meeting Doe, Littlelight and co-defendants planned to rob Doe and take his truck. Once they took Doe’s truck, they planned to give it to a drug dealer in Hardin in exchange f

Ozark, Missouri, criminal Defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with burglary in the first degree, assault in the third degree, and resisting arrest. On October 31, 2023, K.S. and Victim were at Victim’s home where K.S. was doing some chores for Victim because K.S. owed Victim money. The two had drank alcohol and Victim did not want to take K.S. home, so K.S. stayed the night in

Searcy, Arkansas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with capitol murder. On August 17, 2020, Searcy police officers went to Van Stevens’s residence for a welfare check. They discovered that Stevens had been brutally murdered––stabbed 2thirty-one times and subjected to blunt-force trauma that fractured his skull. In the ensuinginvestigation, police focused on Gamb

Waukesha, Wisconsin, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with homicide by use of a vehicle while having a detectable amount of a restricted controlled substance in his blood. Jacob T. Anderson, was driving a work truck when he crossed over the centerline of a two-lane highway and collided with a car driven by Erin M. Schroeder. Schroeder was trapped in her car after the

Del Rio, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiring to traffic firearms to the Sinaloa Cartel. Jose Manuel Najera, 54, of Elon, North Carolina, arrived for outbound inspection at the Del Rio Port of Entry on Oct. 31, 2024, driving a gray pickup truck. U.S. Customs and Border Protection recognized that an alert had been placed on the vehicle for suspicious bo

Roanoke, Virginia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with cutting trees without timber sale contract or authorization On January 18, 2025, an anonymous complainant advised the U.S. Forest Service that they observed several downed locust trees in a restricted area around Petites Gap Road, within Rockbridge County. The complainant provided a picture of a truck that was be

Alexandria, Virginia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempted possession with the intent to distribute cocaine hydrochloride. on Feb. 8, 2023, law enforcement intercepted a parcel containing approximately 2.3 kilograms of methamphetamine and 1.1 kilograms of cocaine. The parcel was addressed to an individual who had agreed to receive it on behalf of Alexander Mi

Kansas City, Missouri, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with unlawful transport of firearms and interferenced with commerce by threat or violence. Duke A. Yates, 37, robbed a Quik Trip and a Walgreen’s, both in Independence, at gunpoint within 10 minutes of each other at about 2:30 a.m. on Dec. 25, 2023. Yates stole a total of between $500 and $700 in cash and a doze

Nashville, Tennessee criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of a kilo of cocaine. Alexander Franklin Rodriguez, age 33, was driving a pickup truck that was stopped on Murfreesboro Pike. He consented to a search of his truck and the drugs were found in the console.

Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with second degree burglary in violation of 21 O.S. 1435, which provides: A. Every person who breaks and enters the dwelling house of another, in which there is at the time no human being present, or any commercial building or any part of any building, room, booth, tent, railroad car or other structure or erection in whi

Phoenix, Arizona, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with voluntary manslaughter. Termane Billy Celaya, 20, of McNary, Arizona, was seated in his pickup truck while he argued with the victim, who was his significant other, while she stood outside of the vehicle. During the argument, Celaya backed up the truck and drove it forward, running over and killing the victim. Cel

New York City, New York, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit racketeering conspiracy and possession of a machine gun. Christian Lugo, a/k/a "Coco" on February 7, 2022, LUGO allowed and encouraged a co-conspirator who worked for him at Certified Auto to shoot at members of a rival tow truck company, which resulted in the death of Gloria Ortiz. In

Pensacola, Florida, civil rights lawyers represented the Plaintiff who claimed that he was discriminated by his employer because of his races. Clennon Dewayne Melton is a black man who began work- ing at I-10 Truck Center in March 2020. I-10 is a Florida commercial truck sales business owned by Brian Brigman. Brigman also owns a related business, I-20 Truck Sales, LLC, located in Alabama. Br

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with second-degree burglary in violation of 21 O.S. 1435, which provides: A. Every person who breaks and enters the dwelling house of another, in which there is at the time no human being present, or any commercial building or any part of any building, room, booth, tent, railroad car or other structure or erectio

Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer Stephen Lee represented the Defendant charged with second degree burglary. and larceny of an automobile. 21 O.S. 1435, which provides: Burglary in Second Degree and Third Degree - Acts Constituting Cite as: 21 O.S. § 1435 (OSCN 2026) A. Every person who breaks and enters the dwelling house of another, in which there is at the time no human bein

Providence, Rhode Island, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with transportation of a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity and interstate travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct. David Romero Reyes, 55, of Stafford, Virginia, pleaded guilty on September 3, 2025, to transportation of a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activi

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with money laundering. A total of 18 defendants have now been sentenced in the culmination of a four-year-long investigation into a drug-trafficking organization (DTO) that specialized in transporting liquid methamphetamine by semi-truck from Mexico, through Texas, to Oklahoma City and elsewhere. According to law

Knoxville, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to harbor illegal aliens and conspiracy to forcibly assault, resist, impeded, intimidate and interfere with any person in performance of official duties. Tyler Shane Wells, 33, of Morristown, TN, and Alexander Bonilla-Servin, 18, of Smyrna, TN, conspired: to conceal and harbor illegal aliens f

Mobile, Alabama, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with drug-trafficking organization responsible for distributing hundreds of pounds of cocaine and pure methamphetamine. Braxton A. Thomas, 38, led an extensive drug-trafficking organization (“DTO”) from 2021 to 2024. Thomas’s DTO distributed various drugs, including cocaine and pure methamphetamine, in the Mobile

Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant, Raul Gutierrez, charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm and theft of government property after breaking into an FBI vehicle and stealing a rifle. “Despite the incitement of violence against federal law enforcement by local officials, which resulted here in the theft of a firearm from an FBI vehicle and t

New York, New York, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with manslaughter. Jimmy Connors, 18, of Syosset, New York, killed two people after driving the wrong way on the Henry Hudson Parkway. “I know the families of the two victims continue to struggle with the loss of their loved ones every day,” said District Attorney Bragg. “The defendant now faces a signific

New Bern, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyers Kelly Dagger and Paul Sun represented the Defendant charged with possession of a machine gun in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. After officers arrested Shawn Tobin Locklear, Jr., age 20, for armed robbery while using a gun, a state court judge released him in March 2022. A few months later in November 2022, while Locklear roamed free o