Illinois Crime Law
<h2> <center> United States of America v. William D. Spears </h2> </center>
Winnebago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with trafficking cocaine and illegally possessing a loaded firearm. William Spears, age 68 was arrested in June 2024 following a 4-month narcotics investigation. At the time of his arrest, Spears was in possession of three and a half grams of cocaine, which he had been planning to sell to another person. Followin... More...
$ (11-07-2026 - IL)<h2> <center> State of Illinois v. Shahid Hussain <h2> </center>
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with two counts of hate crime, and one count of institutional vandalism, all class 2 felony offenses. On January 30, 2026, surveillance video showed Shahid Hussain, age 43, of Niles, Illinois, enter the Northwestern campus drawing swastikas and other Nazi symbols on numerous signs and other university property. The vi... More...
$ (10-17-2026 - IL)<h2> <center> State of Illinois v. Chevazz Campbell </h2> </center>
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with first degree murder. Chevazz Campbel,age 37, stabbed and killed a CTA employee. Under Illinois law (720 ILCS 5/9-1), first degree murder is defined as killing an individual without lawful justification when a person does any of the following: • Intentional Murder: They intend to kill or do great bodily harm... More...
$ (10-12-2026 - IL)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Kevin Gibbs </h2> </center>
Springfield, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Unlawful possession of a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. 922(g) and committing a crime of violence with a machine gun in violation of 18 U.S.C. 924. In May 2023, Kevin Gibbs, age 41, a convicted felon, possessed a firearm while participating in a drug sale. Gibbs was apprehended in the middle of the transacti... More...
$ (09-02-2026 - IL)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Dennis McKay </h2> </center>
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented by Defendant charged with three counts of Hobbs Act robbery affecting commerce in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a) and one count of discharging a firearm in connection to a crime of violence in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A)(iii). Reported by Kent Morlan The Defendant elected to plead guilty. The U.S. Probation Office for th... More...
$ (05-25-2026 - IL)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Damarri Conner </h2> </center>
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with carjacking. On the evening of Nov. 2, 2023, DAMARRI CONNER and KENNETH MERRITT carjacked an Audi sedan in the backyard of a residence in Chicago’s Beverly neighborhood. A woman and her daughter had just returned home in another vehicle when Conner and Merritt sprang from a hiding place and attacked them. Conne... More...
$ (04-16-2026 - IL)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Barbara Harris </h2> </center>
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with fraud. Barbara Harris served as the Executive Director of the Center for Community Academic Success Partnerships (CCASP), which received government grants to provide after-school programs to schools in the Chicago area. From 2012 to 2017, Harris schemed with another CCASP executive, TONY BELL, to submit grant ap... More...
$ (04-09-2026 - IL)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Jose Medina-Medina </h2> </center>
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with illegally owning a firearm. Jose Medina-Medina illegally possessed a handgun on March 20, 2026, according to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago. Chicago Police officers discovered the firearm during a court-authorized search of his residence in the Rogers Park neighborhood on Chicago’s ... More...
$ (04-06-2026 - IL)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Kristain Harris </h2> </center>
Peoria, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with three counts of distribution of 50 or more grams of methamphetamine (“ice”) and one count of distribution of 5 grams or more of methamphetamine (“ice”). At the sentencing hearing on March 10, 2026, the government presented information that beginning in June 2024, a confidential informant with the Bureau of ... More...
$ (03-27-2026 - IL)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Trent Schneider </h2> </center>
Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with threatening to kill multiple public officials, including President Donald J. Trump, the 47th and 45th President of the United States. On Oct. 21, 2025, Trent Schneider, age 58, of Winthrop, Illinois, posted a video of himself on Instagram in which he stated, “People like me have suffered real [expletive] crimes ... More...
$ (03-27-2026 - IL)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Rickey Martin, Jr., </h2> </center>
East St. Louis, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with one count of Hobbs Act robbery and one count of brandish and use of a firearm during a crime of violence. Rickey Martin, Jr., 36, robbed a motel in Maryville, Illinois at gunpoint. Martin admitted to robbing the owner of a motel in Maryville in May 2023. He brandished a firearm loaded with an extended m... More...
$ (03-16-2026 - IL)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Mark A. Pingsterhaus </h2> </center>
East St. Louis, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud and theft of government property. Mark A. Pingsterhaus, age 52, of Carlyle, is accused of using City of Carlyle and Carlyle Fire Protection District funds for unauthorized and personal expenses like travel, entertainment, goods and services. In two examples, the indictment states he used the City... More...
$ (03-06-2026 - IL)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Keith Griffin </h2> </center>
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with criminal contempt and withholding information on a crime. Attorney Keith Griffin, age 54, of Temple City, California, worked for the California personal injury law firm Girardi Keese, which represented relatives of victims who were killed in the 2018 crash in the Java Sea. Girardi Keese filed civil lawsuits in fe... More...
$ (03-06-2026 - IL)State of Illinois v. Pezhman Gilani Yahyavi and Mahmood Bashang
Wheaton, Illinois, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with armed robbery. Pezhman Gilani Yahyavi, 46, and Mahmood Bashang, 30, were each charged one count of disorderly conduct, falsely reporting a crime. Bashang allegedly told the dispatcher the two were jewelry vendors returning from a show in Rosemont when three armed offenders robbed them of between $1.5 million... More...
$ (02-27-2026 - IL)United States of America v. Ana M. Hernandez
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged assault for throwing incendiary device onto her neighbors’ porch. On March 16, 2024, ANA M. HERNANDEZ threw a glass bottle containing oil and a washcloth—a device commonly known as a “Molotov cocktail”—onto her neighbor’s back porch in Chicago. The incendiary device started a fire on the wooden porch, bu... More...
$ (12-23-2025 - IL)<H2> United States of America v. Labar Spann
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with being a leader of the Four Corner Hustlers street gang of participating in a criminal organization that terrorized the West Side of Chicago for two decades by committing murders, robberies, extortions, witness tampering, and drug dealing. The Four Corner Hustlers operated primarily in the Chicago neighborhoods of ... More...
$ (12-17-2025 - IL)United States of America v. Joaquín Guzmán López
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to kidnapping, distributing drugs, and money laundering. Joaquin Guzman Lopez, who succeeded his father, Joaquin Guzman Loera, also known as “El Chapo,” as one of the leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico, pleaded guilty yesterday to federal drug charges. “The Sinaloa Cartel is a terrorist or... More...
$ (12-02-2025 - IL)United States of America v. Gary Wilson
Rockford, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with two counts of production of child pornography.<br> <br> A district court found that Wilson's prior state-law conviction triggered a sentencing enhancement, and<br> Wilson did not object. He now contends that the enhancement should not have applied because Illinois law sweeps more broadly than does § 2251.<br> <br... More...
$0 (11-14-2025 - IL)Tanisha Burress v. Western Avenue Nissan, Inc.
Chicago, Illinois personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a Racketeering (RICO) Act violation toery.<br> <br> AI Overview<br> <br> The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act is a federal law enacted in 1970 to combat organized crime. It allows prosecution for a "pattern of racketeering activity" involving at least two related criminal acts, known as "predica... More...
$1 (10-24-2025 - IL)United States of America v. Dewayne Darzell Johnson-Emory
Rock Island, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with unlawful transportation of a firearm.<br> <br> On or about November 18, 2023, in Rock Island County, in the Central District of Illinois, the defendant knowing he had previously been convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a period exceeding one year, knowingly possessed a firearm, said firearm havin... More...
$0 (10-16-2025 - IL)State of Illinois v. Joseph Czuba
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with murder<br> <br> Joseph Czuba, age 71, was accused of killing a six-year-old Muslim boy and severely injured his mother in a vicious hate-crime attack days after the war in Gaza.... More...
$0 (10-06-2025 - IL)James Gibson v. City of Chicago, et al.
Chicago, Illinois, personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a civil rights violation theory.<br> <br> Plaintiff James Gibson spent over twenty-nine years in prison for a crime he did not commit. After the state court dismissed all charges against him, Gibson filed this civil rights complaint against the City of Chicago, the Estate of Jon Burge, who served as the commander of t... More...
$0 (07-31-2025 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Zhao Tai Cui </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Immigration Fraud </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><b> </b><br> Chicago Man Sentenced to Two Years in Federal Prison for Immigration Fraud</h2></center></b></b></center></><br> </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i"></b></center></i><br> <center><h2><br> ... More...
$0 (09-09-2025 - IL)<H2> United States of America v. Miguel Angel Morales-Garcia
Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute controlled substances. <br> <br> * * *<br> <br> Under U.S. federal law, it is a crime to distribute illegal drugs, which are referred to legally as controlled substances. Any person who manufactures or distributes these substances can face severe criminal penalties, including an extended pri... More...
$0 (06-27-2025 - il)Jesus Zambrano v. City of Joliet and Patrick Schumacher
Chicago, Illinois personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on civil rights violation theory.<br> <br> Jesus Zambrano was convicted of<br> first-degree murder in an Illinois state court in August 2013,<br> but on appeal the Illinois Appellate Court agreed that the trial<br> court erred in failing to give a jury instruction on accomplice<br> liability. A second trial ensued in which... More...
$0 (06-27-2025 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Mona Ghosh </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Health Care Fraud </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Suburban Chicago Physician Sentenced to Ten Years in Prison for Health Care Fraud</h2></center></b></b></center></b><br> <br> A federal jury has convicted a man of trafficking six rifles, in... More...
$0 (06-10-2025 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Jessica Barrera </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Rockford, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Straw Purchasing Firearms </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Rockford Woman Sentenced to Nearly Three Years in Prison for Straw Purchasing Firearms</h2></center></b></b></center></b><br> <br> A Rockford woman has been sentenced to thirty-two m... More...
$0 (06-11-2025 - IL)United States of America v. Deaunta Sentrel Tyler
Peoria, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the defendant charged with attempted robbery.<br> <br> In January 2017, Deaunta Tyler, accompanied by Ledell Tyler and Dalvent Jackson, forcibly entered a home in Rock Island, Illinois, armed with a rifle and a handgun and in search of cocaine. Instead of drugs, they found a family spending a quiet evening together. With weapons brandished, the ... More...
$0 (06-05-2025 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Demarkee D. Jimerson </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> East St. Louis, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with drug distribution, gun charges </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Jury convicts Cahokia Heights man of drug distribution, gun charges</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> A southern Illinois jury convicted a Cahokia He... More...
$0 (04-24-2025 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Broderick K. Currie a/k/a Broderick K. Wooters </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> East St. Louis, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distributing cocaine and fentanyl </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Jury convicts Marion County drug dealer</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> Following a two-day trial, a jury found a Centralia man guilty of federal... More...
$0 (04-07-2025 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Romel Michael Turner </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Peoria, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with two counts of distribution of 50 grams or more of methamphetamine (actual). </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Felon Sentenced on Two Federal Drug Counts Incurred While Awaiting Self-Surrender on Peoria County Drug Possession Conviction </h2>... More...
$0 (03-27-2025 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Kelvin Eugene Patterson, Jr., Marcus L. Burnside (a.k.a. “Pootyâ€) </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Peoria, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Drug and Firearm Offenses </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Two Peoria Men Sentenced for Drug and Firearm Offenses</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> Kelvin Eugene Patterson, Jr., 39, of Peoria, Illinois, was sentenced to tw... More...
$0 (03-10-2025 - IL)State of Illinois v. Joseph Czuba </center<
Joliet, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with murder, attempted murder, aggravated battery and hate crime charges in an eight-count indictment. <br> Joseph Czuba, age 73, Joseph Czuba, 73, was charged in the fatal stabbing of Wadee Alfayoumi and the wounding of his mother, Hanan Shaheen on Oct. 14, 2023 in Plainfield, about 40 miles (64 kilometers) from Chicago. ... More...
$0 (02-28-2025 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Cosme Chacon </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> cty, sta criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with to a money laundering conspiracy charge </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Money Launderer for Chicago-Based Drug Trafficking Organization Sentenced to More Than Eight Years in Prison</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> A money launde... More...
$0 (01-23-2025 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Jauan Brown; Brianna Moore; Jauan Brown; William Davis </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with Drug Trafficking </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Four Chicago Residents Charged in Federal Court as Part of Drug Trafficking Investigation</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> A drug trafficking investigation centered on th... More...
$0 (01-10-2025 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Lee O. Griffin, Jr., Antonio T. Harris, Taneisha M. Davis, Patrick D. Johnson </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Benton, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with Brink's Truck Robbery in Madison </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Four Facing Federal Charges for Brink's Truck Robbery in Madison<br> </h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> Lee O. Griffin, Jr., 23, of Cahokia Heights, is fa... More...
$0 (01-08-2025 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Michael Mallett </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Trafficking Fentanyl and Illegally Possessing Firearm </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Man Sentenced to More Than Eight Years in Federal Prison for Trafficking Fentanyl and Illegally Possessing Firearm</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center... More...
$0 (01-08-2025 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Emmanuel Lance Howard; Evander Allen Jordan </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Peoria, IL criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit armed robbery and multiple robbery and firearms charges </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Two Quad Cities Men Sentenced for Multiple Armed Robbery and Firearm Charges</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><center><h2><font... More...
$0 (12-23-2023 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Emmanuel Lance Howard, Evander Allen Jordan </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Peoria, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with conspiracy to commit armed robbery and multiple robbery and firearms charges </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Two Quad Cities Men Sentenced for Multiple Armed Robbery and Firearm Charges</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><center><h2><f... More...
$0 (12-29-2024 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Emmanuel Lance Howard; Evander Allen Jordan </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Springfield, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with conspiracy to commit armed robbery and multiple robbery and firearms charges. </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Two Quad Cities Men Sentenced for Multiple Armed Robbery and Firearm Charges </h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><b... More...
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