New Mexico Grand Larceny Law
<h2> <center> State of New Mexico v. Sheryl Williams Stapleton </h2> </center>
Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with grand larceny and embezzlement of public funds. 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> Former state Representative Sheryl Williams Stapleton was accused of took money meant for Albuquerque Public School students... More...
$ (09-04-2026 - NM)United States of America v. Robert Haack
Albuquerque, New Mexico, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire and mail fraud. Robert Haack, 59, carried out a years long scheme to defraud collectors by selling counterfeit jewelry falsely represented as authentic works by renowned Hopi artist Charles Loloma. The evidence established that between approximately 2008 and 2015, Haack manufactured dozens of fake Lo... More...
$ (01-29-2026 - NM)United States of America v. Keaton Overton Gunnels
Albuquerque, New Mexico, pro se defendant charged with two counts of making a false statement on a loan or credit application.<br> <br> Mr. Gunnels was indicted by a federal grand jury on February 27, 2019, for two counts of making a false statement on a loan or credit application. Doc. 2. He pled guilty to Count 2 of the Indictment on May 25, 2021. Doc. 51, 53. He admitted that he had committed t... More...
$0 (10-10-2025 - NM)<h1> United States of America v. James Kenney, Kevin Leacy </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged drug trafficking offenses </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><b> </b><br> Albuquerque Man Pleads Guilty to Unlicensed Firearms Dealing</h2></center></b></b></center></><br> </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i"></b></center></i><br> <center><h2><br> A fed... More...
$0 (09-11-2025 - NM)United States of America v. Rumaldo Peshlakai
Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with violating 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)—the federal felon-in-possession statute.<br> <br> On September 23, 2021, C.P. called dispatch for the Navajo Police Department (NPD). She reported Mr. Peshlakai assaulted her, took their four children, and fled in a truck with a firearm. The NPD contacted the FBI to assi... More...
$0 (08-08-2025 - NM)<h1>T United States of America v. Tyler Miles Leveque </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with interstate communications containing a threat against President Donald J. Trump </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> U.S. Attorney, U.S. Secret Service and FBI Announce Federal Charges Against Albuquerque Man for Making Threats Against P... More...
$0 (01-30-2025 - NM)State of New Mexico v. Marco Melo-Fernandez
Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the defendant charged with leaving the scene of an accident.<br> <br> <br> Defendant Marco Melo-Fernandez pleaded no contest to a charge of knowingly leaving the scene of an accident where the accident results in great bodily harm or death, contrary to NMSA 1978, Section 66-7-201(C) (1989). The district court sentenced Defendant to a six-... More...
$0 (11-21-2024 - NM)United States of America v. Santiago Martinez
Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with murder in Indian Country.<br> <br> On November 12 and 13, 2021, Suazo and her boyfriend of 10 years,<br> Martinez, both of whom were 29 years old, were at their residence in Taos<br> Pueblo, New Mexico. After Suazo and Martinez went grocery shopping<br> together the evening of the 12th, Suazo prepared dinner at ... More...
$0 (11-19-2024 - NM)<h1> United States of America v. Jason Ross-Lattion Fleming </h1>
<b><h2><center><font color="red"><i> Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Production of Child Pornography.</b></h2></center></i></font color="red"></i><br> <b><h3><center><i></b>Former Alamogordo Firefighter Sentenced to 45 Years in Prison for Production of Child Pornography </h3></center></i><br> <br> <br> Jason Ross-Lattion Fleming was sentence... More...
$0 (03-01-2024 - NM)<h1> United States of America v. Michael Rivera </h1>
<b><h2><center><font color="red"><i> Albuquerque, New Mexico Criminal Defense Lawyer represented the Defendant a Santa Clara Man Sentenced for Production of Child Pornography</b></h2></center></i></font color="red"></i><br> <br> Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, and Jason T. Stevens, Acting Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations ... More...
$0 (01-17-2024 - NM)United States of America v. Joshua Rico
Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with coercion and enticement in a minor.<br> <br> A federal grand jury indicted Rico on May 12, 2021. According to court documents, beginning as early as January 2018, Rico used multiple profiles on the social media platform Snapchat to coerce female high school students, some of which he was familiar with from his job... More...
$0 (07-28-2023 - NM)United States of America v. Ruben Martha and Pablo Vargas
Las Cruces, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.<br> <br> A federal grand jury indicted Pablo Vargas, age 52, and Ruben Martha, age 42, of Las Cruces, on April 20, 2022. According to court records, on April 17, 2021, Vargas was attending a party at his parent's home on Nevada Street in Las Cruces, New Mexic... More...
$0 (06-29-2023 - NM)United States of America v. Jeffrey Steven Clay
Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with one count each of kidnapping and transportation for illegal sexual activity.<br> <br> A federal grand jury indicted Clay on Nov. 9, 2022. At the time, Jeffrey Steven Clay, age 51, of Anthony, New Mexico, was employed as the Executive Director of Analytics, Strategy, and Assessment and Public Education Information Ma... More...
$0 (05-09-2023 - NM)United States of America v. Debra Campbell
Denver, Colorado criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud and subscribing to a false tax return.<br> <br> From 2009 through April 2018, Debra Campbell, age 66, from Grand Junction, Colorado, owned and operated a company called A Better Alternative Management (ABAM), which was hired by homeowners' associations (HOAs) to manage their finances. Campbell had access to, and sig... More...
$0 (11-08-2022 - NM)United States of America v. Nick L. Medeiros and Bobby D. Greaves
Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyers represented Defendants charged with conspiracy, fraud and making false statements.<br> <br> A federal grand jury indicted Nick L. Medeiros, age 49, and Bobby D. Greaves, age 62, Greaves on June 13, 2018, charging the two men with conspiracy, major fraud against the United States, and two counts of false statements. The indictment also included forfe... More...
$0 (03-29-2022 - NM)United States of America v. Santos Duran
Albuquerque, New Mexico felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Santos Duran, 23, of Los Lunas, New Mexico, charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.<br> <br> A federal grand jury indicted Duran on June 24, 2020. According to his plea agreement, on May 20, 2020, Duran fled from law enforcement afte... More...
$0 (07-10-2021 - NM)State of New Mexico v. Brandon J. Barron
<center><h2><font color="red"> Albuquerque, NM - Criminal defense attorney represented Brandon Barron with a criminal sexual penetration (CSP) in the third degree charge. </h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> Defendant, a door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman, stopped by Victim's<br> 5 home on March 15, 2017. Victim allowed Defendant into her home to perform a <br> 6 demonstration of the vacuum c... More...
$0 (05-23-2021 - NM)State of New Mexico v. Manual Sandoval
<center><h2><font color="red"> Albuquerque, NM - Criminal defense attorney represented MANUAL SANDOVAL with a receiving stolen property charge. </h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> <br> Defendant appeals his conviction for receiving stolen property contrary to <br> 19 NMSA 1978, Section 30-16-11 (2006). We issued a notice of proposed summary <br> 20 disposition in this matter proposing to affi... More...
$0 (05-23-2021 - NM)State of New Mexico v. Christopher Heh
<center><h2><font color="red"> Albuquerque, NM - Criminal defense attorney represented CHRISTOPHER HEH with possession of a stolen motor vehicle and possession of burglary tools charges</h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> The opinion filed January 6, 2021, is hereby withdrawn, and this opinion is <br> 21 substituted in its place. A jury convicted Defendant Christopher Heh of possession <br> 22 o... More...
$0 (04-24-2021 - NM)United States of America v. Lowell Begay
Albuquerque, New Mexico manslaughter charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Lowell Begay, 38, of Fruitland, New Mexico, and an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, who was charged with involuntary manslaughter in Indian Country.<br> <br> A grand jury indicted Begay and co-defendant Jerry Armenta on July 25, 2019. According to the plea agreement and other court records,... More...
$0 (04-20-2021 - NM)STATE OF NEW MEXICO v. SHARLA DESERSA
<h2><font color="black">Alamogordo, NM - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant SHARLA DESERSA charged with larceny and conspiracy to commit larceny.</h2></font><br> <br> Defendant appeals from a district court judgment entered after Defendant pled<br> 20 guilty to larceny and conspiracy to commit larceny. We issued a calendar notice<br> 21 proposing to affirm. Defendant has responded with ... More...
$0 (10-14-2020 - NM)United States of America v. Jawad Khalaf and Nashat Khalaf
<center><br> <img width="400" src="http://www.morelawtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/AlbuquerqueFed.jpg"><br> </center><br> <br> <br> Albuquerque, NM - The United States of America charged Jawad Khalaf and Nashat Khalaf with charged with selling jewelry manufactured in the Philippines as having been made by Native Americans.<br> <br> Jawad Khalaf, 72, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, Nashat Khalaf, ... More...
$0 (05-10-2020 - NM)United States of America v. Dain Justin Adams
Las Cruces, NM - The United States of America charged Dain Justin Adams with distribution, receipt and possession of child porn.<br> <br> A federal jury in Las Cruces, New Mexico returned a verdict on January 28 convicting Dain Justin Adams, 38, of Roswell, New Mexico, of child pornography charges including distribution, receipt, and possession of sexually explicit material.<br> <br> ... More...
$0 (01-30-2020 - NM)United States of America v. Larry Mitchell Hopkins, a/k/a Johnny Horton, Jr.
Albuquerque, NM - The United States of America charged Larry Mitchell Hopkins, a/k/a Johnny Horton, Jr. with being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm.<br> <br> Larry Mitchell Hopkins, who is also known as Johnny Horton Jr., 70, of Flora Vista, New Mexico, pleaded guilty in federal court in Albuquerque to being a felon in possession of a firearm.<br> <br> A grand jury indicted... More...
$0 (01-10-2020 - NM)United States of America v. Francisco Armando Martinez
The Fourth Amendment protects citizens from unreasonable seizures by law<br> enforcement. If an inquisitive agent approaches someone who does not want to<br> respond, all the person must do is say so. But if one voluntarily answers an agent’s<br> non-coercive questions, the conversation falls outside the scope of the Fourth<br> Amendment even if, as is the case here, it reveals a crime. Defendan... More...
$0 (11-20-2019 - NM)Untied States of America v. Donovan Young
Albuquerque, NM - Albuquerque man pleads guilty to brandishing a firearm during crime of violence<br> <br> Donovan Young, 22, of Albuquerque, N.M, pleaded guilty this morning in federal court to a felony information charging him with using, carrying and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence. In entering the guilty plea, Young admitted brandishing a firearm while committing a carjacking... More...
$0 (11-10-2019 - NM)United States of America v. Samuel Elliott
<center><br> <img width="300" src="http://www.nmd.uscourts.gov/sites/nmd/files/Albuquerque%20PVD.jpg"><br> </center><br> Samuel Elliott pled guilty to three counts of producing child pornography, in<br> violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a), and four counts of possessing child pornography, in<br> violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(5)(B). Each of the four possession counts<br> concerns a different elec... More...
$0 (09-09-2019 - NM)United States of America v. Gaspar Leal
<center><br> <img width="300" src="http://www.nmd.uscourts.gov/sites/nmd/files/Albuquerque%20PVD.jpg"><br> </center><br> Albuquerque, NM - FEDERAL JURY CONVICTS ALBUQUERQUE MAN ON METHAMPHETAMINE TRAFFICKING CHARGES <br> <br> A federal jury sitting in Albuquerque, N.M., returned a guilty verdict against Gaspar Leal, 49, of Albuquerque, on methamphetamine trafficking charges after a two-day trial. ... More...
$0 (07-28-2019 - NM)United States of America v. Marybeth Jiron
<center><br> <img width="300" src="http://www.nmd.uscourts.gov/sites/nmd/files/Albuquerque%20PVD.jpg"><br> </center><br> Albuquerque, NM - ISLETA PUEBLO WOMAN PLEADS GUILTY TO ASSAULTING TWO FEDERAL OFFICERS IN INDIAN COUNTRY<br> <br> Marybeth Jiron, 56, of Isleta Pueblo, N.M., pleaded guilty in federal court in Albuquerque to charges of assaulting two federal officers.<br> <br> A gran... More...
$0 (07-19-2019 - NM)Roxanne Torres v. Janice Madrid; Richard Williamson
<center><br> <img width="300" src="http://www.nmd.uscourts.gov/sites/nmd/files/Albuquerque%20PVD.jpg"><br> </center><br> <br> In this excessive-force case, Roxanne Torres appeals from a district court order<br> that granted the defendants’ motion for summary judgment on the basis of qualified<br> immunity. Exercising jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, we affirm.<br> BACKGROUND<br> Early in th... More...
$0 (05-02-2019 - NM)United States of America v. Gaspar Leal
<center><br> <img width="300" src="http://www.nmd.uscourts.gov/sites/nmd/files/Albuquerque%20PVD.jpg"><br> </center><br> Gaspar Leal appeals from the district court’s denial of his motion to dismiss the<br> indictment. In his motion, he argued that the drug conspiracy charged in this case is the<br> same conspiracy for which he was convicted in a previous case and that continued<br> 2<br> prosec... More...
$0 (04-22-2019 - NM)United States of America v. Mark Hopkins
<center><br> <img width="300" src="http://www.nmd.uscourts.gov/sites/nmd/files/Albuquerque%20PVD.jpg"><br> </center><br> <br> Dr. Mark Hopkins filed a motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 to vacate his 2010<br> conviction and sentence for tax evasion. Before his trial, the district court ordered him to<br> make monthly payments into the court’s registry to ensure he was complying with federal<br> tax ... More...
$0 (04-08-2019 - NM)STATE OF NEW MEXICO v. JUAN TRINIDAD SANCHEZ
<br> Defendant was convicted of felony possession of a controlled substance and 17<br> <br> was subsequently committed to CCP. Two weeks after being committed to CCP 18<br> <br> Defendant cut off his ankle monitor, failed to respond to messages from 19<br> <br> monitoring officers, and was subsequently taken into custody. A grand jury 20<br> <br> <br> 2 <br> <br> indicted Defendant for esc... More...
$0 (10-08-2018 - NM)STATE OF NEW MEXICO v. ERNEST BRYAN BARELA <table> <td>
Defendant was charged with residential burglary, unlawful taking of a motor 8 vehicle, stalking, larceny, and escape or attempt to escape from a peace officer on 9 June 21, 2012. Defendant’s charges stemmed from an event on May 22, 2012, 10 involving Defendant’s ex-girlfriend, E. Ramirez. Defendant and Ms. Ramirez had 11 been involved in a two-year relationship and had a child together in Mar... More...
$0 (08-09-2018 - NM)State of New Mexico v. Ruben Gonzalez
Las Cruces, NM - Jury Finds Defendant Guilty of Kidnapping But Finds Him Innocent on Other Charges<br> <br> The State of New Mexico charged Ruben Gonzalez, age 58, with third-degree criminal sexual penetration, first-degree kidnapping and three misdemeanor counts of sexual contact in connection with an August 2017 attack.<br> <P><br> Charges:<br> <br> Party Count Seq # Statute Charge Class C... More...
$0 (08-03-2018 - NM)STATE OF NEW MEXICO v. EL RICO CUMMINGS <table> <td>
The pertinent facts are undisputed. On June 9, 2013, the Alamogordo Police<br> 14 Department obtained and served an arrest warrant and a search warrant on Defendant<br> 15 at his home as part of an investigation into a shooting. Relevant here, the search<br> 16 warrant—the validity of which is not disputed—authorized police to search<br> 17 Defendant’s home for firearms, ammunition, weapons... More...
$0 (07-06-2018 - NM)STATE OF NEW MEXICO v. JOSEPH BLEA <table> <td>
On November 2, 1988, A.W. (Victim 1), who was 13 years old, went to her<br> 15 home after school where an unknown man wearing a ski mask was lying in wait,<br> 16 armed with a knife. The man vaginally penetrated Victim 1, and then forced her into<br> 17 the bathroom. After securing the bathroom door so Victim 1 could not escape, the<br> 18 unknown man fled. Victim 1 was taken to the hospital, whe... More...
$0 (06-28-2018 - NM)State of New Mexico v. Aaron Archuleta <P> <font color="red"><a href="http://www.morelaw.com/vendors/vendor.asp?f=Kent&l=Morlan&i=28536&z=74103&s=OK" target="_new">Morelaw Internet Marketing for Legal Professionals</a> <br> MoreLaw Can Make Your Phone Ring <br> 888-354-4529 </font>
Santa Fe, NM - Jury Acquits Defendant On One Charge and Hangs On A Second<br> <br> The State of New Mexico charged Aaron Archuleta with shooting at dwelling or occupied buildng and abuse of a child with great bodily harm as a result of a family dispute that ended with multiple shots and the wounding of an 8-year-old boy in 2016.<br> <br> Docket entries:<br> <br> 03/29/2018 8:30 AM JURY TRIAL ... More...
$0 (03-30-2018 - NM)STATE OF NEW MEXICO v. NOE TORRES <table> <td>
In the early hours of September 15, 2005, nine shots were fired through a<br> 3 bedroom window of an apartment in Clovis, killing ten-year-old Carlos Perez. Carlos<br> 4 had been sleeping in the bedroom he shared with his older brother, the intended<br> 5 victim, seventeen-year-old Ruben Perez.<br> 6 {4} That night there were two distinct groups of actors involved in the shooting:<br> 7 one group... More...
$0 (03-17-2018 - NM)STATE OF NEW MEXICO v. OSCAR ARVIZO <table> <td>
In December 2009, Valerie Barreras and her husband Anthony Barreras had<br> 3 two daughters—A.B., then thirteen years old, and her younger sister S.B., then six<br> 4 years old. Defendant was married to Valerie’s sister Darlene, making him A.B.’s<br> 5 uncle. Defendant and Darlene had four young children of their own. Valerie and<br> 6 Darlene were very close, and the two families often ... More...
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