Eugene, Oregon criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with Sexually Exploiting Child Online.

In May 2018, Andrew Thomas when Tager was 28 years old, he posed as a female employee of Musical.ly and began communicating with a then-10-year-old Oregon child. He encouraged the child to participate in a fictional “crown programâ€� wherein the child could earn a “crownâ€� by sendi... More...    $0 (09-19-2022 - OR)

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged for transporting two teen girls across state lines, drugging and sexually abusing them, and selling them to other men for sex.

In 2016, John L. Jackson, age 34, met and befriended Keonte Desmond Scott, 23, also of Vancouver, after Scott’s release from prison. Jackson sold Scott cocaine and eventually began coaching h... More...    $0 (07-25-2022 - OR)

Eugene, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with theft of government funds.

Katie Jo Thompson, age 31, cared for her disabled child while also operating a licensed childcare business out of her Roseburg residence. Thompson applied for various federal benefit programs administered by the Special Security Administration (SSA) on her child’s behalf. In these applic... More...    $0 (07-28-2022 - OR)

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with international sex trafficking organization operating dozens of illegal Asian brothels in the United States, Canada and Australia.

Zongtao Chen aka Mark Chen, 49, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, led a criminal enterprise that recruited women, primarily from China, to travel to the United States and elsewhere to engage... More...    $0 (06-09-2022 - OR)

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with transporting and possessing thousands of images depicting child sexual abuse.

Nickolas K. Parsons, 27, was sentenced to 90 months in federal prison and 10 years’ supervised release.

In late 2019, as part of an ongoing investigation, officers identified a Twitter user who sent two MEGA links to child por... More...    $0 (06-07-2022 - OR)

Eugene, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with wire fraud.

Thomas Gerard Mautone, 43, formerly of Newark, New Jersey, was one of five individuals who together perpetrated a monthslong scheme to convince an elderly man to invest $1 million in a fraudulent high-yield international investment scheme. In July 2015, one of Mautone’s co-defendants, Jared Mack, 46, ... More...    $0 (05-13-2022 - OR)

Bend, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with 17 felony counts including first-degree rape and sexual abuse, for the molestation of three young children.

Those charges were
the result of a Bend Police Department investigation into Mr. Pugh’s sexual abuse of three children who
were five to twelve years old at the time of the crimes, from 2001 – 2008.<... More...    $0 (02-21-2022 - OR)

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with tax evasion.

Kent Jensen, 58, a former certified public accountant and former chief financial officer of a McMinnville, Oregon company was sentenced to federal prison today for evading $99,000 in personal income taxes.

According to court documents, in 2014 and 2015, Jenson, who also previously worked as a... More...    $0 (07-29-2021 - OR)

Eugene, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with illegally trafficking in endangered turtles.

Yuan Xie, 30, was charged for his role in a scheme to purchase hundreds of endangered and vulnerable turtles in the U.S. and smuggle them via U.S. mail and commercial airline flights to China.

Beginning in at least May 2017 and continuing until October 2018, Xie ... More...    $0 (05-09-2021 - OR)

Eugene, Oregon sexually abusing a minor female charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, William Hamann, 38, a former Eugene elementary school teacher who was charge with sexually abusing a minor female.

On several occasions beginning in 2018 and continuing until July 2019, Hamann paid a minor female for oral sex and recorded the minor performing the sex acts. The minor femal... More...    $0 (03-04-2021 - OR)

Eugene, Oregon Lacey Act Violation criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with flagrant and repeated poaching of protected and Tribally significant bull trout.

“One of the most solemn duties of the U.S. Attorney’s office is enforcing the laws for the protection of our threatened wildlife and upholding our special trust relationship with our tribal partners,” said United S... More...    $0 (11-28-2020 - OR)

Portland, OR - The United States of America charged John Phillip Stirling with possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine under the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (MDLEA).

John Philip Stirling, 66, a Canadian citizen, was sentenced to 40 months in federal prison and five years’ supervised release for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine under the Maritime Drug... More...    $0 (05-26-2020 - OR)

Portland, OR - The United States of America charged John James Shore, IV with distributing child porn.

John James Shore, IV, 55, of Beaverton, Oregon, pleaded guilty to one count of distributing child pornography.

According to court documents, the government’s investigation revealed that Shore used BitTorrent, a peer-to-peer file sharing program, to acquire and distribute child p... More...    $0 (03-09-2020 - OR)