Kansas Bank Robbery Law
<h2> <center> United Sates of America v. Sierra Werth </h2> </center>
Topeka, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with falsifying money orders in order to embezzle from the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). 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> Sierra Werth, 32, of Quinter issued and voided at least 10 money orders on the same day. She issued ... More...
$ (08-28-2026 - KS)<h2> <center> United States of America v. David L. Mongeau </h2> </center>
Wichita, Kansas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with making false statements and bank fraud. Mongeau owned Mongeau Enterprises, a farming operation in western Kansas. In 2019, he obtained a crop insurance policy through the USDA’s Federal Crop Insurance Program (FCIP) which is subsidized by the federal government. In January 2020, Mongeau submitted a claim indicatin... More...
$ (04-03-2026 - KS)United States of America v. Dion Daniel
Kansas City, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with bank fraud. Dion Daniel, 36, of Kansas City, Missouri, submitted false information on applications for disaster relief loans resulting in a loss of $522,000 for the Small Business Administration (SBA). The Paycheck Protection Program ("PPP") was intended to provide financial relief to business owners dealing wi... More...
$ (01-29-2026 - KS)<H2> United States of America v. Bobby Bates Sr.
Kansas City, Kansas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fraud. Bobby Bates Sr., 43, of Grand Island, Nebraska, from February 2023 to October 2023, was the owner of Built Rite Construction, used a social media group called “Building Barndominiums” to solicit clients for construction projects. Bates required customers to provide initial deposits of up to 50 percen... More...
$ (01-16-2026 - KS)<H2> United States of America v. Quintin Flanagin
Wichita, Kansas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged one count of wire fraud, one count of bank fraud, one count of false statements, and one count of money laundering. Quintin Flanagin, 45, of Colby, Kansas, was accused for defrauding clients of his accounting firm, who were also his relatives, of more than $400,000. As a certified public accountant (CPA), Flanagin us... More...
$ (12-10-2025 - KS)<H2> United States of America v. Montressa Cunningham
Topeka, Kansas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Conspiracy to Commit Bank Fraud and Wire Fraud and Money Laundering.<br> <br> A jury convicted Defendant Montressa Cunningham ("Cunninghamâ€) of sixteen offenses stemming from a fourteen-month fraudulent scheme. Cunningham and his wife Felicia purchased seven higher-end used cars, financing those purchases<br> with... More...
$0 (11-19-2025 - KS)United States of America v. Maurice Franklin, Jr.
Wichita, Kansas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with robbery and possession of a firearm in relationship to a crime of violence. ... More...
$0 (10-02-2025 - KS)United States of America v. Brian A. Richard
Wichita, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with bank-robbery.<br> <br> Mr. Richards passed a note to a bank teller claiming to have a gun and demanding $227.64. After obtaining the requested money, he left the bank and went to a nearby restaurant. When police arrived, he admitted to robbing the bank. Police found the demand note and cash in his pockets but no gun... More...
$0 (08-18-2025 - KS)United States of America v. Brian A. Richards
Wichita, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with bank robbery.<br> <br> He appealed the district court's order authorizing forced administration of antipsychotic drugs to restore his competency to stand trial.<br> ... More...
$0 (08-18-2025 - KS)State of Kansas v. Sharrone Dontrez Steele-Ponds </cnter>
Wichita, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with aggravated robbery to increase his criminal history score from D to B.<br> <br> At Steel-Ponds' sentencing hearing, his attorney informed the district court that she had reviewed his amended PSI report and did not object to his criminal history score of B. Steele-Ponds also confirmed to the district court that his pri... More...
$0 (07-18-2025 - KS)State of Kansas v. Casinroyial Donje Caszarone Collins
Wichita, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with aggravated robbery, kidnapping, and aggravated battery.<br> <br> Legal issue Can an untimely appeal be excused based on exceptions for insufficient advisement of appellate rights or ineffective counsel?<br> Headnote<br> <br> CRIMINAL PROCEDURE. APPELLATE JURISDICTION AND PROCEDURAL DUE PROCESS. The case addresses whet... More...
$0 (03-03-2025 - KS)<h1> United States of America v. Lynn Ritter and Kirk Ritter </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Kansas City, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with wire fraud and theft of government funds.theft of deceased father's Social Security benefits </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Husband & wife sentenced for theft of deceased father's Social Security benefits </h2></center></b></b> </h... More...
$0 (01-28-2025 - KS)<h1> STATE OF KANSAS v. PATRICIO SABAS GOMEZ </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Topeka, KS criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant with claiming a jury instruction contained an alternative-means error </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> </h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> If a defendant claims a jury instruction contained an alternative-means error, the <br> reviewing c... More...
$0 (01-17-2025 - KS)<h1> ; Emily Wise </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Wichita, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with robbing Kansas banks </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Two people from Wichita charged with robbing Kansas banks</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><center><h2><font><br> <br> A man and woman from Kansas have been charged through crim... More...
$0 (01-03-2025 - KS)<h1> United States of America v. Zane Tilcock; Emily Wise </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Wichita, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with a series of bank robberies involving a firearm. </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Two people from Wichita charged with robbing Kansas banks </h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><center><h2><font><br> <br> A man and woman from Kansas h... More...
$0 (01-03-2025 - KS)State of Kansas v. Stan P. Mills, Jr.
<h2><br> Wichita, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant accused of being a violent offender.<br> </h2><br> <br> <br> In two separate cases, Sedgwick County District Court case Nos. 2021 CR 2220 (Case 1) and 2021 CR 2236 (Case 2), the State charged Mills with two counts of aggravated battery and attempted robbery. The State also charged Mills with arson in Sedgwick County Distri... More...
$0 (11-15-2024 - KS)<h1> United States of America v. Shan Hanes </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Wichita, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with one count of embezzlement by a bank officer. </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Victims of cryptocurrency scam awarded restitution</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> After a $47.1 million cryptocurrency scheme caused a Kansas ... More...
$0 (11-07-2024 - KS)State of Kansas v. D.H.
Topeka, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with aggravated robbery.<br> <br> Sixteen-year-old D.H. was charged as a juvenile with aggravated robbery. After the district court granted the State's motion to prosecute him as an adult, a jury convicted him of the lesser included offense of robbery.<br> <br> * * *<br> <br> On a fall evening in October 2020, Tasha Poort and... More...
$0 (10-25-2024 - KS)State of Kansas v. Larry D. Huggins, III
>h2><br> Topeka, Kansas felony murder criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant.<br> <k2><br> <br> <br> Larry D. Huggins III appeals from his convictions of felony murder, attempted aggravated robbery, aggravated burglary, and conspiracy to commit aggravated robbery. Finding no errors in his trial, we affirm the convictions, but we vacate the imposition of fees and remand the case for reco... More...
$0 (08-20-2024 - KS)<h1> United States of America v. Shan Hanes </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Wichita, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with one count of embezzlement by a bank officer. </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Former CEO of failed bank sentenced to prison</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> Shan Hanes, 53, of Elkhart pleaded guilty to one count of embezz... More...
$0 (08-19-2024 - KS)<h1> United States of America v. Shan Hanes </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center>Wichita, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with embezzle tens of millions of dollars in a cryptocurrency scheme. </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Former CEO of failed bank sentenced to prison</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> While the CEO of Heartland Tri-State Bank (... More...
$0 (08-19-2024 - KS)<h1> STATE OF KANSAS v. CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL JACOBSON </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Topeka, KS criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant with appealing the denial of his motion to correct an illegal sentence </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> </h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> Jacobson pled guilty to one count of robbery, a severity level five, person felony, <br> for his cond... More...
$0 (07-26-2024 - KS)<h1> STATE OF KANSAS v. BECKY ANNE WILSON </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Topeka, KS criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant with appealing, arguing the probations for the two lower-level felonies could not be revoked because she had completed their shorter statutory terms. She also challenged the order to pay interest </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> </h2></center></b></b> </h2... More...
$0 (07-26-2024 - KS)<h1> STATE OF KANSAS v. WILLIAM LOGGINS JR. </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Topeka, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant with appealing the district court's dismissal of his motion to withdraw a plea from a 1981 conviction for aggravated burglary </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> </h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> Loggins pleaded guilty in 1981 to aggra... More...
$0 (06-07-2024 - KS)<h1> State of Kansas v. Jerome Edward </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Topeka, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with shooting of a marijuana dealer in a robbery attempt .</font <br> </color="red"></b></h2></center></i></i><b><h2><center></i></b> <br> <br> </h2></center><br> <br> <br> <br> The facts underlying Edwards convictions, which arise from the shooting of a <br> marijuana dealer in a rob... More...
$0 (03-15-2024 - KS)<h1> JASON TODD ROSS v. STATE OF KANSAS </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Topeka, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with three counts of aggravated kidnapping, three counts of aggravated robbery, one count of aggravated burglary, and <br> two counts of aggravated battery. </font <br> </color="red"></b></h2></center></i></i><b><h2><center></i></b> <br> <br> </h2></center><br> <br> <br> A jury convict... More...
$0 (04-19-2024 - KS)<h1> United States of America v. Richard Ruston </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center><i> Wichita, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with bank robbery .</font color="red"></b></h2></center></i></i><b><h2><center><i></b>Missouri man sentenced for bank robbery in Kansas </h2></center></i></font color="red"><br> <br> A Missouri man was sentenced to 100 months in prison for bank robbery. <br> <br> A federal jury had con... More...
$0 (04-02-2024 - KS)<h1><cecnter> United States of America v. Demond M. Johnson; Ryan D. Smith </h1></center>
<b><h2><center><font color="red"><i> Wichita, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with bank robbery.</b></h2></center></i></font color="red"> Two Texas men indicted for bank robbery in Kansas </i><b><h3><center><i></b> </h3></center></i><br> <br> A federal grand jury in Wichita returned an indictment charging two men in connection with a bank robbery. <br> <br> Acco... More...
$0 (03-13-2024 - KS)<h1> State of Kansas v .TERRANCE W. PONDER </h1>
<br> On October 28, 2014, the State charged Ponder with violation of the Kansas <br> Offender Registration Act (KORA) for actions on or about September 1, 2014. Ponder <br> was not arrested until June 2018 for this offense.<br> Ponder ultimately entered into a plea agreement with the State, under which he <br> pleaded guilty to the KORA noncompliance charge. In his presentencing dispositional <br... More...
$0 (01-24-2024 - KS)<h1> State of Kansas v. KYLE TREVOR FLACK </h1>
Ottawa, Kansas, criminal defense lawyer presented the Defendant charged with first-degree murder, second-degree murder and felony possession of a firearm.<br> <br> In 2013, Andrew Stout and two friends, including Steven White, lived at Stout's <br> house in rural Franklin County. Flack, another friend of Stout's, occasionally spent time <br> there. Flack brought a shotgun with him everywhere, usua... More...
$0 (01-19-2024 - KS)State of Kansas v. John K. Ewing
Topeka, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with first degree murder.<br> <table><br> <h1><br> <center><br> <P><br> <img width="300" src="http://www.morelawtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Topeka_KS_State.jpg" alt="Shawnee County Courthouse - Topeka"><br> <P><br> Shawnee County Courthouse - Topeka, Kansas<br> <P><br> <a font="red" href="https://www.morelaw.com/kansas/news... More...
$0 (02-23-2023 - KS)State of Kansas v. Lori Mayfield
Ellsworth, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with mistreatment of a dependent adult.<br> <br> <br> A jury sitting in Ellsworth County District Court convicted Defendant Lori Mayfield of one count of mistreatment of a dependent adult for using money belonging to her daughter Jessica for her own benefit by means of "false pretenses." Although the evidence showed that Mayfi... More...
$0 (03-12-2021 - KS)State of Kansas v. Floyd Scott Bledsoe
This is primarily a sufficiency of the evidence case. Defendant Floyd S. Bledsoe appeals his convictions for first-degree premeditated murder, aggravated kidnapping, and aggravated indecent liberties. K.S.A. 21-3401(a); K.S.A. 21-3421; K.S.A. 21-3504. Our jurisdiction is under K.S.A. 22-3601(b)(1) (an appeal of a conviction for an off-grid crime receives review by this court).<br> <br> Bledsoe cla... More...
$0 (02-01-2023 - KS)United States of America v. Stephanie Stites
Kansas City, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with bank fraud.<br> <table><br> <h1><br> <center><br> <a font="red" href="https://www.morelaw.com/kansas/news/kansascity/" target="_new">MoreLaw Legal News For Kansas City, Kansas</a><br> </font><br> </center><br> </h1><br> </table><br> </center><br> Stephenie Stites, 52, of Overland Park worked as the accounts payable cler... More...
$0 (01-20-2023 - KS)United States of America v. Michael Capps
Wichita, Kansas criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with multiple counts of false statements to a bank to obtain PPP loans.<br> <table><br> <h1><br> <center><br> <a font="red" href="https://www.morelaw.com/kansas/news/wichita/" target="_new">MoreLaw Legal News For Wichita</a><br> </font><br> </center><br> </h1><br> </table><br> </center><br> Michael Capps, 44, of Wichita, was accused... More...
$0 (12-23-2022 - KS)United States of America v. K. Kevin James
Kansas City, Kansas criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud.In January 2022, K. Kevin James, 65, of, Lenexa pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud. James was a co-owner of KC United LLC, a holding company for multiple construction companies in Kansas City, Kansas, including Miller Paving LLC. According to court documents, James admitted that from 2008 to 2010, he co... More...
$0 (11-15-2022 - KS)United States of America v. Timothy Dale Warren
Wichita, Kansas criminal lawyer represented Defendant indicted by a federal grand jury in Wichita indicted a Kansas man on multiple charges for alleged crimes related to the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, which is a federal law providing financial relief to businesses suffering economic losses because of the COVIID-19 pandemic. Under the CARES Act, the Small Business ... More...
$0 (08-19-2022 - KS)United States of America v. Blaine Schurle
Topeka, Kansas criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with one count of criminal conversion, one count of forgery of United States obligations or securities, and one count of false statement to a federally insured bank. <br> <br> According to court documents, Blaine Schurle, 26, of Barnes as operator of Double S Cattle Company, LLC is accused of allegedly selling approximately 400 head ... More...
$0 (07-21-2022 - KS)United States of America v. Jakel Webster
Kansas City, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with attempted robbery of a Kansas City, Kansas convenience store in which a clerk was shot in the face. <br> <br> <br> Jakel Webster, 26, of Kansas City Jakel Webster, 26, of Kansas City was sentenced to 212 months in prison.<br> <br> On April 28, 2020, Webster and Jorden Brownlee, 22, of Lenexa entered a Quick Shop on Metr... More...
$0 (06-10-2022 - KS)STATE OF KANSAS v. ALEXANDER CHRI STOPHER HUNT
<center><font color="red"><h2><fontcolor="red> Topeka, KS - Criminal Defense lawyer represented defendant with appealing two counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child charges. </h2></font></b></i></font></center></center><br> <br> In late November or early December 2018, Hunt, a homeless man, was invited to <br> stay at a house shared by several people including C.W. and her eight-year... More...
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