Legal News for Chapel Hill, North Carolina
United States of America v. Cameron Curry
Charlotte, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with interstate communication with intent to extort, and causing an act to be done and aiding and abetting the same in violation for 18 U.S.C. 875(d) and 2. Reported by: Kent Morlan Cameron Curry, 27, w... More...
(08-14-2026 - nc)United States of America v. Adedayo Fateru, Lisa Farrow, William Atwater, and Victoria Stone
Greensboro, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1956(h). Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation and the United States Postal Inspection Services (“USPIS”) investigated Adedayo Fateru, a Nigerian citizen and U.S. Permanent Resident, Lisa Farrow, William Atwater, and Victoria S... More...
(08-13-2026 - NC)United States of America v. Sharon Lynn Jones
Raleigh, North Carolina, , criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distributing fifty (50) grams or more of methamphetamine in violation of 18 U.S.C. 846. Reported by: Kent Morlan In May 20125, the DEA and Duplin County Sheriff’s Office identified Jones as a ma... More...
(08-13-2026 - NC)United States of America v. James Nadel Taylor
Raleigh, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with: Conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute fifty (50) grams or more of methamphetamine. Possess with the intent to distribute fifty (50) grams or more of methamphetamine; and aiding and abetting. On January 14, 2025, a Selma Police Department detective stopped a Kia Optima for ... More...
(08-11-2026 - NC)State of North Carolina v. Elizabeth Snowman
Mooresville, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant accused for using Flock license plate readers to track her boyfiend's ex-wife. Reported by Kent Morlan Mooresville Police Department officer Elizabeth Snowman, age 36, was charged with accessing police depar... More...
(08-06-2026 - NC)United States of America v. Terry Detroit Page
Charlotte North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distributing methamphetamine. Digested by Kent Morlan Law enforcement initiated an investigation into Terry Detroit Page, 54, of Pineville, N.C., for drug trafficking in and around Charlotte. Using... More...
(07-21-2026 - NC)United State of America v. LS Cable and System USA, Inc.
Raleigh, North Carolina Department of Justice lawyer represented the United States which sued the Defendant on a False Claims Act theory. Reported by Kent Morlan LS Cable & System USA, Inc. knowingly misrepresented the number of its employees and affiliated personnel and unlawfully sou... More...
(07-21-2026 - NC)United States of America v. Kerby Pata
New Bern, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute more than 11 pounds of cocaine and conspiracy to possess with the intent to sell more than 50 grams of meth. Reported by: Kent Morlan In April 2022, the Virginia State Poli... More...
(07-08-2026 - NC)K. Lee Builders v. Thomas Scott Barnes
Henderson, North Carolina, civil litigation lawyers represented the parties in a beach of contract action. Reported by Kent Morlan Defendant entered a construction contract with plaintiff, a licensed general contractor. The contract was executed and signed by the parties on or around 1... More...
(07-04-2026 - NC)United States of America v. Jessica Latoya Staten
Raleigh, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with aiding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns. Reported by Kent Morlan Jessica Latoya Staten, 41, engaged in a scheme to prepare and file hundreds of false and fraudulent federal inco... More...
(07-03-2026 - NC)United States of America v. Nejlai Mitchell, et al.
Wilmington, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiring to defraud the United States and with adding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns. Nejlai Mitchell owned and operated a tax return preparation business out of Lumberton, North Carolina, and Hope Mills, North Carolina. From approximately April 2022 through May 2023, Mitchell and... More...
(06-26-2026 - NC)United States of America v. James Shuford Price, III
Wilmington, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with paying illegal kickbacks for referrals to his California-based lab and filing a false federal tax return. Reported by Kent Morlan James Shuford Price, III, 59, owned and operated Golden Star Lab... More...
(06-26-2026 - NC)United States of America v. Denis Joesph Bouchard
Raleigh, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with false claim of citizenship in order to vote. Reported by Kent Morlan Denis Bouchard, 70, falsely claimed to be a United States citizen when he voted, including registering to vote in the 2024 presid... More...
(06-04-2026 - NC)State of North Carolina v. John Phillip McPherson III
Whiteville, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged obtaining property by false pretenses and three counts of attempted obtaining property by false pretenses. Reported by Kent Morlan John Phillip McPherson III, 41, owned and operated North State Armory on South Madison Street in Whiteville. He is accused of seling counterfeit weapons and accessories.... More...
(05-17-2026 - nc)United States of America v. Homer Allen Faison, III
Raleigh, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with drug trafficking meth. By Kent Morlan Homer Faison didn’t just sell drugs; he built a pipeline of poison stretching across this country directly into the heart of the Eastern District of North Carolina. By flooding our neighborhoods with hundreds of pounds of dope, he greedily profited from addiction a... More...
(05-15-2026 - NC)United States ex rel. GHGH2, Inc. v. Vsoft Technologies Corporation
Charlotte, North Carolina civil litigation lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendant on behalf of the United States on a qui tam theory. Reported by Kent Morlan GNGH2 Inc. sued Vsoft Corporation claiming that it misrepresented that it was a small business with less than 3... More...
(05-08-2026 - NC)State of North Carolina v. Malasia Brianna Coleman
Nashville, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with failure to properly store a firearm under North Carolina law, a Class 1 misdemeanor. Malasia Brianna Coleman's son got on a bus taking students to M.B. Hubbard Elementary School in Battleboro carrying a gun. Another student thought that his book bag weighed too much.... More...
(05-01-2026 - NC)State of North Carolina v. Dylan Warbritton
Jacksonville, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represents the defendant charged with communicating threats and cyberstalking. Dylan Warbritton, age 23, accused of sending threatening text messages to the victim, including messages that threatened physical harm. * * * North Carolina, stalking is defined as willfully following, harassing, or intimidating another person on more than ... More...
(04-29-2026 - NC)United States of America v. Kenta Montrice Wright
Charlotte, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distribution of methampletamine.... More...
(04-24-2026 - NC)State of North Carolina v. Peter Alphonso Blake
Smithfield, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with forceable rape, first-degree kidnapping, first-degree burglary and involuntary sexual servitude. Peter Alphonso Blake, age 33, is a former police officer, is accused of breaking into a home on April 8 with the intention of raping and subjecting the victim to sexual servitude.... More...
(04-24-2026 - NC)United States of America v. Timarcus Lavonnte Britt
Raleigh, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with interference with commerce by robbery; and aiding and abetting, brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence. Three individuals including Timarcus Lavonnte Britt, 29, Jaliek Grant, and a juvenile, engaged in a spree of five attempted armed robberies on July 11, 2023, between 1 and 4 a.... More...
(04-24-2026 - NC)United States of America v. Jennifer Fox and Michael Isaac Robinson
Asheville, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distributing drugs. Beginning in July 2022, law enforcement began investigating Jennifer Fox and Michael Isaac Robinson’s drug trafficking activities in and around Asheville. Investigators learned that the defendants supplied methamphetamine to a network of local distributors. The investigation revealed ... More...
(04-15-2026 - NC)United States of America v. Jeremy Hinton
Wilmington, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering. The Raleigh Police Department (RPD) and ATF conducted two controlled purchases of fentanyl from Inmate Hinton. During the second controlled purchase, Inmate Hinton also sold a Glock 36 handgun. When law enforcement ultimately tried to pull Inmate Hinton over to arre... More...
(04-14-2026 - NC)United States of America v. Erica McMillian
New Bern, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud. Erica McMillian, a Robeson County woman, submitted a fraudulent EIDL loan application for a fictitious business located in Robeson County. To obtain the $150,000 loan, McMillian made false representations concerning the number of employees and gross revenues of the business.... More...
(04-10-2026 - NC)United States of America v. Fortunato Beltran
Wilmington, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to sell methamphetamine and fentanyl and selling both. Fortunato Beltran, 45, was accused of operating a drug trafficking organization that ship tens pounds and hundreds pounds of fentanyl and methamphetamine to Eastern North Carolina. Inmate Beltran orchestrated bulk shipments of methamphetami... More...
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