Pennsylvania Constitutional Law Law
<h2> <center> United States of America v. Zachary Velling </h2> </center>
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with possession of an unregistered firearm in violation of 26 U.S.C. 5861(d). 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> on November 12, 2024, Zachary Velling, 27, of Morgantown, West Virginia, entered security at the P... More...
$ (09-03-2026 - PA)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Curtis John Shupe </h2> </center>
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with theft of government property in violation of 18 U.S.C. 641 and misure of position of representative payee in violation of 42 U.S.C. 408(a)(5). 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> From in and around September ... More...
$ (08-11-2026 - PA)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Luis Rojas Cay </h2> </center>
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with felony possession of a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1), and carrying a weapons on an aircraft in violation of 49 U.S.C 46505(b)(2). 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> On or about April 26, 2024,... More...
$ (08-06-2026 - PA)<h2> <center> Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Raabitah Reynolds </h2> </center>
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with possession of drugs with intent to distribute, criminal conspiracy, possession of a firearm by a prohibited person, criminal use of communications facility, and simple possession of drugs. Reported by: <a href="https://www.morelaw.com/vendors/vendor.asp?f=Kent&l=Morlan&i=28729&z=74119&s=OK" target="_new">Ke... More...
$ (07-17-2026 - PA)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Mark Snedden </h2> </center>
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit federal program bribery in violation of 18 U.S.c. 371 and making a false claim in violation of 18 U.S.C. 287. Mark 1 Restoration Company (“Mark 1”) and its owner Mark Snedden have agreed to a $7,257,232.12 resolution of civil claims arising from kickbacks that Mark 1 paid to an A... More...
$ (07-17-2026 - PA)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Dimitris Smith, Jr. </h2> </center>
Scranton, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distributiong controlled substances and distributing fentanyl resulting in death. 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> Dimitris Smith, Jr., age 48, of Whitehall, Pennsylvania, distributed a deadly dose of fentany... More...
$ (07-03-2026 - PA)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Thomas Pipich </h2> </center>
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with 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> Thomas Pipich, age 74, tole millions of dollars from an investment client in order to conceal losses he incurred on behalf of another client. In 2005, Pipich helped t... More...
$ (06-02-2026 - PA)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Elizabeth Goss </h2> </center>
Erie, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud and theft of government property. Elizabeth Goss, age 43, was accused of while working at the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, accepted unauthorized payments from unemployment compensation claimants to approve and expedite Pandemic Unemployment Assistance and other pandemic-related unempl... More...
$ (04-22-2026 - PA)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Randy Welch and Earnest Morant </h2> </center>
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit SNAP benefit fraud. Randy Welch, age 46, of Michigan, and Earnest Morant, age 58, of Harrisburg, engaged in a conspiracy to submit fraudulent SNAP benefits applications and then exchange the resulting electronic benefits transfer cards for cash. To further the conspiracy, Welch alleged... More...
$ (04-22-2026 - PA)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Andre Pitts </h2> </center>
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with uttering counterfeit obligations and theft of government property. Andre Plitts, age 21, deposited an altered version of a U.S. Treasury check in the amount of $62,211. The check had been issued in February 2023 to another individual related to that person’s income tax return, with the memo line of the ch... More...
$ (04-16-2026 - PA)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Shawn Monper </h2> </center>
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, criminal Defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with making interstate threats to murder President Donald J. Trump, other United States officials, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. Shawn Monper, 33, threatened to assault and murder United States officials and federal law enforcement officers with the intent to impede, intimidate, int... More...
$ (04-14-2026 - PA)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Joseph Garrett Buckland </h2> </center>
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to create and distribute animal crush videos. Joseph Garrett Buckland, 44, and others conspired to pool their money to commission the creation of animal crush videos—that is, videos that show actual obscene conduct in which living non-human mammals, in this case, monkeys, were purposely crush... More...
$ (04-02-2026 - PA)<h2> <center> United Sates of America v. George Moses </h2> </center>
Scranton, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud, mail fraud, and bank fraud. George Moses, age 45, of Wilkes-Barre, submitted applications for unemployment compensation, pandemic unemployment compensation, economic injury disaster loan, and paycheck protection program loan benefits falsely representing that he had qualifying income from the oper... More...
$ (04-02-2026 - PA)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Nicholas Pecko </h2> </center>
Scranton, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with bank fraud and theft of mail by a postal employee. Nicholas Pecko, age 33, of Vandling, Pennsylvania, allegedly stole two checks totaling $6,581.59 that were sent through the mail, intended to be delivered by the United States Postal Office. The indictment further alleges that Pecko executed a bank fraud sche... More...
$ (03-20-2026 - PA)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Brett Michael Dadig </h2> </center>
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charge with cyberstalking and making interstate threats. From May through November 2025, the Brett Michael Dadig, 31, traveled in interstate commerce to multiple states and used facilities of interstate commerce (such as his phone and the internet) with the intent to harass and intimidate numerous female victims, in man... More...
$ (03-20-2026 - PA)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Christopher Knight </h2? </center>
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with deprivation of civil rights under color of law and falsification of records. On January 8, 2023, Christopher Knight, 47, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, blasted his first victim with pepper spray while the victim was lying face down on the ground with his hands behind his back. Knight then continued to spr... More...
$ (03-20-2026 - PA)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Jerome Brown, a/k/a Jerome F. Brown <h2> </center>
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with drug trafficking and illegally possessing a firearm after law enforcement raided his car, home, and storage unit as part of a drug-trafficking investigation near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A plea agreement is a negotiated contract between the Government and a defendant. Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Cri... More...
$ (03-13-2026 - PA)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Santos Castro-Mota </h2> </center>
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with drug trafficking. Santos Castro-Mota, 46, a Dominican Republic national, ran a drug trafficking operation out of the State Correctional Institution Phoenix (Collegeville, Pennsylvania). A joint investigation by federal, state, and local law enforcement operating under the High Intensity Drug Trafficking A... More...
$ (03-13-2026 - PA)United States of America v. Nasir Warlow
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with one count of carjacking and one count of using and carrying firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence. At approximately 5:08 a.m., the victim parked his silver 2017 Nissan Sentra on the 6700 block of Woodland Avenue when Nasir Warlow and two accomplices, all wearing masks and dressed in black,... More...
$ (03-03-2026 - PA)United States of America v. Aaron Hertel and Michael Brown
Erie, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit wire and health care fraud. Aaron Hertel, 47, of North East, Pennsylvania, and Michael Brown, 49, of Erie, Pennsylvania led, managed, and supervised a conspiracy involving numerous employees at Hertel & Brown Physical and Aquatic Therapy that involved the use of unlicensed technicians to trea... More...
$ (03-03-2026 - PA)United States of America v. John O’Brien
John O’Brien of Masury, Ohio, engaged in a scheme with others to defraud Primary Health Network, a non-profit medical organization headquartered in Sharon, Pennsylvania, through the submission of fraudulent invoices, including from the telecommunications company O’Brien controlled. The four other defendants in the case all previously pleaded guilty, including three leaders of the organization... More...
$ (02-23-2026 - PA)United States of America v. Eric Raheem Pierce
Scranton, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with felony possession of a firearm and ammunition. During the course of several controlled drug purchases, Eric Raheem Pierce, age 38, of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, distributed approximately 35 grams of fentanyl before attempting to discard 25 bricks of heroin and another 23 grams of fentanyl on the date of h... More...
$ (02-23-2026 - PA)United States of America v. Javon Pope
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempting to remove property and take other action to prevent seizure in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2232(a) as well as being a felon in possession of a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g). The Defendant sought to suppress the evidence against him. The Fourth Amendment protects individuals fro... More...
$ (02-23-2026 - PA)United States of America v. Bryce Hill
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute drugs. Bryce Hill, age 28, of Seattle, Washington, was a member of the Phoenix-based Monarrez Drug Trafficking Organization—a transnational criminal organization responsible for the distribution of millions of fentanyl pills, hundreds of pounds of methamphe... More...
$ (02-12-2026 - PA)United States of America v. Ja’Shon Spencer
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with felony possession of a firearm. Ja’Shon Spencer, 22, possessed a Glock semiautomatic pistol equipped with a machinegun conversion device (MCD) or “Glock switch.” A MCD is a device that converts a semiautomatic firearm into a fully automatic firearm. Under federal law, both the MCD itself as well as th... More...
$ (02-12-2026 - PA)United States of America v. Jorge Alberto Santamaria-Cortes
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with illegal reentry of a removed alien. Alberto Alberto Santamaria-Cortes, age 47, a Mexican national who was residing in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, illegally reentered the United States sometime after he had been deported in July 2014. Santamaria-Cortes was found again in the United States after being arreste... More...
$ (02-13-2026 - PA)Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Chris Byard, Daquan Bishop
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with first-degree murder and related charges. Chris Byard, 27, was charged with three counts of first-degree murder and related charges. Daquan Bishop, 28, was charged with two counts of first-degree murder. The arrests were the result of a joint investigation between the Philadelphia Police Department, ... More...
$ (02-12-2026 - PA)United States of America v. Genesis Delgado Rosa
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy launder money. Rosa participated in a conspiracy commonly referred to as a grandparent fraud scheme. In this instance, an international organized crime group based in the Dominican Republic conducted a scam in which they called elderly individuals impersonating a loved one (often a grandchild) an... More...
$ (02-03-2026 - PA)United States of America v. Joseph Primiero
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with production and attempted production of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, coercion or enticement of a minor, receipt and attempted receipt of material depicitng the sexual exploitation of a minor, and transfer of obscene material to a minor. On or about January 24, 2022, Primiero produce... More...
$ (01-21-2026 - PA)<H2> Commonwalth of Pennsylvania v. Sabir Bunch
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with first-degree murder for or a double shooting homicide that happened on August 3rd, 2023 in the Olney section of Philadelphia. Sabir Bunch (DOB 11/05/1996) is convicted of two counts of Murder of the First Degree, along with one count of the following: VUFA 6106 (F3) Possessing Instruments of C... More...
$ (01-23-2025 - PA)<H2> United States of America v. Dimitris Smith, Jr.
Scranton, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged distribution of fentanyl resulting in serious bodily injury and death and four counts of distribution of fentanyl and cocaine. Dimitris Smith, Jr., age 48, of East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, distributed a deadly dose of fentanyl on December 11, 2023, in East Stroudsburg, Monroe County. A 38 year old female died ... More...
$ (01-12-2026 - PA)<H2> United States of America v. Edward Arthur Owens Jr.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with making a threat to injure a local public official and making false statements to government agents. On May 20, 2025, Edward Arthur Owens Jr., 30, knowingly and willfully transmitted via a social media messaging app the following threat to injure a local public official: “We’re coming for you [emoji of ... More...
$ (01-12-2026 - PA)<H2> United States of America v. Mureerah Abdullah
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud. From in or about April 2020 to in or about October 2020, Muneerah Abdullah, age 46, of Chester, Pennsylvania, filed fraudulent claims for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) claims for herself and other ineligible recipients, to include inmates. The PUA claims contained fraudulent answers to... More...
$ (12-19-2025 - PA)<H2> United States of America v. Jayvon Turner
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with felony possession of a firearm and ammunition. On or about August 16, 2025, Jayvon Turner, age 23, had a firearm and ammunition in his possession after previously having been convicted of a felony on a state robbery charge. Federal law prohibits possession of a firearm or ammunition by a convicted felon. ... More...
$ (12-29-2025 - PA)<H2> United States of America v. Kareem Middlebrook
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute fentanyl, cocaine, and crack, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. From in and around December 2021 to in and around March 2023, in the Western District of Pennsylvania, Middlebrook conspired with others to distribute and possess... More...
$ (12-19-2025 - PA)<H2> United States of America v. Daniel George
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvanian, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with drug trafficking and firearm felonies. Daniel George, age 37, engaged in armed fentanyl and cocaine trafficking in Farrell, Mercer County. He did so despite his prior convictions, and years of incarceration, for drug trafficking, firearm, and domestic violence crimes. He also did so from a location where... More...
$ (12-17-2025 - PA)<H2> United States of America v. Katrina Maclean
Williamsport, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with interstate transport of stolen human remains. From 2018 through 2022, Katrina Maclean, age 46, of Bradford, Massachusetts, bought human remains that she knew to have been stolen from Harvard Medical School and transported them from Massachusetts to Pennsylvania. Maclean also sold stolen human remains to... More...
$ (12-13-2025 - PA)<H2> United States of America v. Dommonick T. Chatman
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with one count of bank fraud in connection with numerous fraudulent Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan applications that were filed, with his knowledge and approval, through his business, The Chatman Group, LLC. Dommonick T. Chatman, age 50, admitted that over the course of several months in 2021, he either ... More...
$ (12-13-2025 - PA)<H2> Estate of Devine v. The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a medical malpractice wrongful death theory.<br> <br> On May 10, 2023, Appellees filed a wrongful death and survival action against Appellant, in connection with a biopsy that Gabriella underwent as part of her treatment for Acute Myelogenous Lukemia, which Appellees allege caused Gabriella's death. Appellees... More...
$0 (11-21-2025 - PA)Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Dimitrius Bashir Campbell
Allentown, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempted homicide and conspiracy to do the same. <br> <br> On December 29, 2023, members of the Allentown Police Department were around the area of the Sportsmen's Bar for an investigation in an unrelated case when they heard shots fired. They pursued a fleeing individual, later identified as Appellant. Once of... More...
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