Illinois False Imprisonment Law
<h2> <center> United States of America v. Octavia Renee Murphy </h2> </center>
Springfield, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud. Reported by <a href="https://www.morelaw.com/vendors/vendor.asp?f=Kent&l=Morlan&i=28729&z=74119&s=OK" target="_new">Kent Morlan</a> Octavia Renee Murphy, 37, of the 700 block of Double Jack Street, conspired with others to defraud the SBA by submitting false applications for... More...
$ (05-25-2026 - IL)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Robert Dunlap </h2> </center>
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fraud. Robert Dunlap claimed to operate a cryptocurrency business that sold a purported digital asset called “Meta-1 Coin” through a “Meta-1 Coin Trust.” Dunlap made numerous false and misleading statements to potential and actual investors, including claims that the Meta-1 Coin was backed by as much as $... More...
$ (04-16-2026 - IL)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Anthony Gonzalez Alvarez </h2> </center>
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with assaulting a police officer and misprision of a felony. On Oct. 3, 2025, Gonzalez Alvarez, 27, of Lyons, Ill., joined a caravan of vehicles that was following a vehicle driven by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers on the Southwest Side of Chicago. Gonzalez Alvarez drove his Ford pickup truck into t... More...
$ (04-16-2026 - IL)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Tatiana Bazer </h2> <center>
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with fraud and impersonating and officer or employee of the United States. Tatiana Bazer falsely represented to victims that their money would be used in various ways, including, among things, projects in Ukraine, immigration services, or as loans to Bazer to help resolve her purported arrest for shoplifting, according ... More...
$ (04-01-2026 - 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. James R. Nelson </h2> </center>
Urbana, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer Meldinda Powers represented the Defendant charged with knowingly possess a destructive device, not registered to him in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record, in violation if 26 U.S.C. Sections 5841, 5861(d), and 5871. James R. Nelson, age 40, from Onarga, Illinois, possessed an unregistered destructive device and refused to relinquish ... More...
$ (03-06-2026 - IL)United States of America v. Shawn Christopher Powell
Council Bluffs, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempted enticement of a minor. Shawn Christopher Powell, 52, communicated with a person he believed was a 13-year-old female between May and August 2025. Powell sent messages about wanting to engage in sex acts with the minor. In August 2025, Powell traveled from Tennessee to Iowa with the intent to meet up w... More...
$ (02-27-2026 - IL)United States of America v. James Nelson
Urbana, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with knowingly possessingly a destructive device, not registered to him in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record, in violation if 26 U.S.C. Sections 5841, 5861(d), and 5871. The government played the body camera of the Iroquois County (Illinois) Sheriff’s Office detective who encountered Nelson during ... More...
$ (02-25-2026 - IL)United States of America v. Roberto Nicolas-Simon
Urbana, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with illegal reentry into the United States after removal and failure to update sex offender registration. Roberto Nicolas-Simon, 24, was unlawfully present in the United States when he was convicted of Aggravated Criminal Sexual Abuse in Champaign County. He acknowledged his registration obligation as a sex offender be... More...
$ (02-17-2026 - IL)United States of America v. Burhan Mirza and Kashif Iqbal
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyers represent the Defendants charged with health care fraud and money laundering. In 2023 and 2024, BURHAN MIRZA and KASHIF IQBAL, along with several co-schemers, used nominee-owned laboratories and durable medical equipment providers to submit fraudulent claims to Medicare and private healthcare benefit programs for items and services that were not prov... More...
$ (02-13-2026 - IL)United States of America v. Roberto Nicolas-Simon
Urbana, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with failing to update registration as a sex offender as required by the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) and being a removed alien illegally present in United States. The government presented evidence that Nicolas-Simon was unlawfully present in the United States when he was convicted of Aggravate... More...
$ (02-07-2026 - IL)United States of America v. Derwin Vazquez, Jr.
Rockford, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States by making false statements to purchase seven firearms. From 2020 to 2023, DERWIN VAZQUEZ, JR. conspired with his sister—JALISSA R. VAZQUEZ—to make false or fictious written statements to three licensed firearms dealers in connection with the acquisition or attempted acq... More...
$ (02-07-2026 - IL)United States of America v. Jason Dawson
East St. Louis, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with arson. Jason Dawson, 38, was setting fire to an insurance office building on East Delmar Avenue in Alton on Nov. 22, 2025. The complaint alleged Dawson was upset about the amount for a life insurance policy cashout after a meeting with employees on Nov. 21 and returned to the office the following day to set... More...
$ (01-23-2026 - IL)<H2> United States of America v. Traveon H. Reese
East St. Louis, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit bank fraud. Traveon H. Reese, 31, of Atlanta, Georgia, was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, one count of bank fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft. “This conspiracy victimized numerous hardworking people across central and southern Illinoi... More...
$ (01-16-2026 - IL)<H2> United States of America v. Edmund Singleton
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with motor vehicle theft carjacking. EDMUND SINGLETON and two co-defendants conspired to commit the carjackings on a single night in November 2022. In the first carjacking, Singleton drove the trio in a stolen car to a gas station in the Roseland neighborhood of Chicago, where the co-defendants violently took an Infin... More...
$ (01-16-2026 - IL)<H2> United States of America v. Annazette Collins
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fraud and false statements and willful failure to file return information. After a career in the Illinois state legislature, Annazette Collins began evading tax liability.... More...
$ (12-18-2025 - IL)<H2> United States of America v. Marcus “Slim” McKinney
Urbana, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, distribution of fifty grams or more of methamphetamine, possession of fifty grams or more of methamphetamine and 500 grams or more of cocaine with the intent to distribute, maintaining drug-involved premises, obstruction of justice, and witness tampering. Marcus "Sim... More...
$ (12-17-2025 - IL)<H2> United States of America v. Stephen H. Keith
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 ... More...
$ (12-17-2025 - IL)<H2> United States of America v. James A. Cohen
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with accepting payments in exchange for falsely representing that a registered sex of- fender lived at his address. After he was charged for making that representation to United States marshals, Cohen pleaded guilty to knowingly and willfully making a materially false statement in a matter within the jurisdiction of the U... More...
$0 (11-24-2025 - 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)<h1> United States of America v. Bryan K. Atkins </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> East Saint Louis, IL criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with child pornography solicitation charges </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><b> </b><br> Indiana sex offender sentenced to 24+ years' imprisonment on child pornography solicitation charges</h2></center></b></b></center></><br> </font/color="red"></b></center>... More...
$0 (09-15-2025 - 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)<h1> United States of America v. Steven Baxter </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Rockford, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with illegally possessing a firearm in Rockford and violating the terms of his court-supervised release. </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><b> </b><br> Man Sentenced to More than Ten Years in Prison for Illegally Possessing Firearms and Violating Supervised Rele... More...
$0 (08-15-2025 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Steven Baxter </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Indianapolis, Indiana criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Illegally Possessing Firearms and Violating Supervised Release Terms </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><b> </b><br> Man Sentenced to More than Ten Years in Prison for Illegally Possessing Firearms and Violating Supervised Release Terms</h2></center></b></... More...
$0 (08-15-2025 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Michael McClain </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Consultant Sentenced to Two Years in Federal Prison for Conspiring To Falsify Records and Evade Internal Controls at Commonwealth Edison as Part of Scheme To Bribe Former Illinois House Speaker Michae... More...
$0 (07-24-2025 - IL)Michael Mogan v. Portfolio Media, Inc.
Chicago, Illinois pro se lawyer sued the Defendant on defamation and false light theories.<br> <br> Michael Mogan appeals the district court's dismissal of his suit against Portfolio Media, the owner of<br> Law360, for defamation and false light. <br> <br> Mogan, who is an attorney, sued Airbnb in California state court on behalf of a client named Veronica McCluskey in 2018. See Mogan v. Sacks, Ri... More...
$0 (07-16-2025 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Francis Eversman, Gregg Crawford </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> East Saint Louis, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with bank fraud </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> <br> Former bank president and contractor plead guilty to federal charge in loan fraud scheme</h2></center></b></b></center></b><br> </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i>... More...
$0 (07-03-2025 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Darren Carlyle Sadler </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with raudulently obtaining more than $14 million in small business loans under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security ("CARESâ€) Act. </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> <br> California Businessman Pleads Guilty in Federal Court ... More...
$0 (07-03-2025 - 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. 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)<h1> United States of America v. Awad Odeh </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Swindling Investors out of $3.6 Million </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><br> <b><center></i><b> </b> Suburban Chicago Businessman Charged With Swindling Investors out of $3.6 Million</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> A suburban Chicago businessman ... More...
$0 (05-22-2025 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Gretchen Alvarez </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Rockford, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Preparing and Filing False Income Tax Returns </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Rockford Woman Pleads Guilty to Preparing and Filing False Income Tax Returns</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> A Rockford woman pleaded gu... More...
$0 (05-21-2025 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Alen Saric </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> East Saint Louis, IL criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with $1.7 million vehicle sale fraud </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Third defendant sentenced to prison in $1.7 million vehicle sale fraud scheme</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> A southern Illinois district judge sente... More...
$0 (05-09-2025 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Robert R. Rodriguez </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center>Benton, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with one count of attempted enticement of a minor and one count of soliciting an obscene visual depiction of a minor. </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Kentucky man sentenced to 10+ years in federal prison for attempted sex offenses against a child... More...
$0 (05-01-2025 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Trevor W. Yokley </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> East St. Louis, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempting to commit a child sex offense </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Vandalia man accused of attempting to commit a child sex offense</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> U.S. District Court within the Southern Distr... More...
$0 (04-07-2025 - 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. Lamar R. Bennett </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> East St. Louis, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possessing firearms as a felon </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Centralia man sentenced to 10+ years' imprisonment for possessing firearms as a felon</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> A district judge sentenced a C... More...
$0 (04-01-2025 - 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...
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