Texas Child Exploitation Law
<h2> <center> State of Texas v. Anthony Clay Johnson </h2> <center>
Amarillo, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with two counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child. Digested 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> Anthony Clay Johnson II was charged with two counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child. The victim was his cousin. The abus... More...
$ (02-09-2026 - TX)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Luke Ethan Rogers </h2> </center>
Amarillo, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with possession of child pornography. 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> Luke Ethan Rogers charged with one count of ‘receipt and distribution of child pornography’ and a count of ‘possession of child pornography invo... More...
$ (06-04-2026 - TX)<h2> <center> State of Texas v. Bernardo Gomez </h2> </center>
El Paso, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexual abuse of a child. By Kent Morlan Bernardo Gomez accused of sexually abusing a minor. In March 2020, a victim, who was 11 at the time, told their mother that Gomez had sexually abused them over multiple years, from when the victim was in kindergarten and continuing through fifth grade.... More...
$ (05-06-2026 - TX)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Avis Delynn Jones </h2> </center>
Marshall, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and felony possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking. By Kent Morlan On March 17, 2023, a search warrant was executed at Avis Delyn Jones’ University Avenue residence in Marshall resulting in the discovery of 440.7 grams of methamphetamine co... More...
$ (05-06-2026 - TX)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Isela Mendez </h2> </center>
Sherman, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to manufacture and distribute fentanyl. Isela Mendez, 45, was identified during an investigation involving the influx of counterfeit oxycodone, and other prescription pills, in the Eastern District of Texas and surrounding areas. It was determined that Mendez worked with others to distribute tens of thous... More...
$ (04-15-2026 - TX)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Marvin Alexander Portillo </h2> </center>
Beaumont, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute fentanyl. in June of 2023, Marvin Alexander Portillo, 29, was identified during a drug trafficking investigation involving the distribution of fentanyl-laced pills in the Eastern District of Texas. Portillo admitted to being involved in a conspiracy responsible for dis... More...
$ (04-03-2026 - TX)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Cyrus Kourosh Boujabadi </h2> </center>
Houston, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distribution of multiple narcotics. Cyrus Boujabadi onspired with others to distribute MDMA, meth, cocaine, marijuana, psilocybin and DMT. As part of the conspiracy, he coordinated drug transactions using a messaging application, directed others to deliver controlled substances and accepted payment in cash and electr... More...
$ (04-03-2026 - TX)<h2> <center> Sharif Ahmad Jasmine v. The State of Texas </h2> </center>
McKinney, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexual abuse of a child. The was charged with the continuous sexual abuse of a child, J.W. J.W.’s mother Kirsten met appellant in 2015 when she and J.W. lived in Missouri. Kirsten and appellant started dating and eventually had a son together. In 2019, –2– when J.W. was twelve years’ old, Kirsten and her... More...
$ (04-05-2026 - TX)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Camilo Reyes Castillo </h2> </center>
Dallas, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the defendant charged with production of child pornography. Camilo Reyes Castillo, 47, was producing and trading child sexual abuse material online. DPS investigated Castillo and his online presence and confirmed that he was involved in producing and sharing sexually explicit material involving young boys. In June 2025, DPS executed a search ... More...
$ (04-05-2026 - TX)<h2> <center> State of Texas v. Edwin Fernando Perez </h2> </center>
El Paso, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexual assault of a young girl. Edwin Fernando Perez, 54, was charged with Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child The testimony at trial reflected that, in 2022, the victim reported to a school counselor that she had been assaulted by the Defendant several years earlier at a sleepover at his house. At the time of th... More...
$ (11-17-2025 - TX)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Johnny Quoc Tran </h2> </center>
Houston, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute fentanyl and meth. an investigation began in March 2019 when authorities identified a Houston-based drug trafficking organization with additional operations in Dallas, Oklahoma and Louisiana. Authorities determined Tran led the organization and operated a pill press lab... More...
$ (03-15-2026 - TX)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Rodolfo Daniel De Hoyos aka “Rufles” </h2> </center>
Del Rio, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to harbor illegal aliens causing serious bodily injury and placing lives in danger. Rodolfo Daniel De Hoyos a/k/a "Rufles<" was arrested on Nov. 22, 2021, in Kinney County. A Texas Department of Public Safety trooper observed three passengers in De Hoyos’s vehicle, each wearing dirty clothing, hiking boo... More...
$ (03-15-2026 - TX)<h2 <center> United States of America v. Judy Terecia Sanchez </h2> </center>
Lubbock, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fraud. Judy Terecia Sanchez, 60, was accused of fraudulently obtaining, forging, and cashing Texas Medicaid checks payable to a former health worker for her quadriplegic son. “The defendant inflicted unimaginable suffering on her son by ffraudulently pretending he received the care he needed and deserved,” said U... More...
$ (03-05-2026 - TX)United States of America v. Celso Rivas-Gonzalez
Del Rio, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with illegal re-entry into the United States by a previously removed alien. In 2024, Rivas-Gonzalez was convicted of both illegal re-entry and indecency with a child. Prior to that, in 2021, he was convicted of a harassment felony that had been reduced from one count of aggravated sexual assault of a child. Rivas-Gonzalez... More...
$ (02-18-2026 - TX)State of Texas v. Andrew Wayne Roark
Dallas, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the charged with child abuse. Andrew Wayne Roark, 48, for his 2000 injury to a child conviction after an extensive and careful re-evaluation of the evidence by the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office’s Conviction Integrity Unit (CIU). Changes in science regarding the mechanism of the injury, which the Court of Criminal Appeals opined w... More...
$ (11-18-2025 - TX)United States of America v. Ivan Hernandez-Ortiz
Dallas, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with illegaly reentry. Ivan Hernandez-Ortiz, 36, residing in Dallas, Texas, illegally entered the United States approximately five times, was granted voluntary return on three occasions, and was formally removed twice. Previously, he was federally prosecuted for illegal reentry into the United States in the Southern Distr... More...
$ (02-25-2026 - TX)United States of America v. Juan Antonio Flores
Del Rio, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to harbor illegal aliens causing serious bodily injury and placing lives in jeopardy. Juan Antonio Flores, 36, coordinated smuggling trips for an alien smuggling organization (ASO), making $4,000 per alien smuggled from Mexico to San Antonio. The aliens were often transported to Austin, where co-conspirato... More...
$ (02-15-2026 - TX)United States of America v. Marisa Witkop
Fort Worth, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexual exploitation of children. Marisa Witkop, age 21, produced four videos of a nine-year-old child, some of which she distributed using a social media application. The U.S. Secret Service and Mansfield Police Department handled the investigation. The United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern Dist... More...
$ (02-15-2026 - TX)State of Texas v. Adrian Gonzales
Corpus Christi, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with 29 counts of child endangerment. Adrian Gonzales was accused of failing to act when he arrived at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde where a shooter killed 19 children and two teachers.... More...
$ (01-22-2026 - TX)<H2> Wonderful Hill v. Dollar Tree Stores, Inc.
Houston, Texas, personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued on a premises liability theory seeking $250,000 in damages. This case was filed in the 56th District Court, Galveston County, Texas, 24-CV-0114 and was removed to federal court by the Defendant. Googe A.I.: AI Mode All News Images Videos Shopping Short videos More Tools These are results for Texas Premises... More...
$ (05-06-2025 - TX)<H2> United States of America v. Clayton Willis Caddell and Robert Alfonso Cazarin
Sherman, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with trafficking methamphetamine. Clayton Willis Caddell, 48, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine and was sentenced to 181 months in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Sean D. Jordan on January 9, 2026. Robert Alfonso Cazarin, 37, pleaded guilty to co... More...
$ (01-13-2026 - TX)State of Oklahoma v. Tyrese Riley
El Paso, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represents the defendant charged with drunk driving for having a blood alcohol level of 0.12 when he crashed into another vehicle on I-10 while driving drunk with two kids in the car. It was found that Riley had nine outstanding traffic warrants. Riley was taken to the El Paso County Downtown Jail, where he was booked and charged with DWI with a chil... More...
$ (01-06-2026 - TX)<H2> State of Texas v. Andrew Wayne Roark
Dallas, Texas, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant on charged and convicted of "Shaken Babby Syndome. e Dallas County Criminal District Attorney’s Office announces the exoneration of Andrew Wayne Roark, 48, for his 2000 injury to a child conviction after an extensive and careful re- evaluation of the evidence by the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office’s Conviction In... More...
$ (11-18-2025 - TX)<H2> United States of America v. Dr. Mark Malone, et al.
Austin, Texas, qui tam lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a False Claims Act fraud claim. Dr. Mark Malone, Advanced Pain Care, and related entities have agreed to pay the United States and the State of Texas $13,625,000 to resolve allegations they submitted false claims for urine drug testing to federal and state healthcare programs. The United States will receive $13,590,544.88 and Texas will... More...
$ (12-18-2025 - TX)<H2> United States of America v. Alexis Aldair Chavez
San Antonio, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with racketeering activity and multiple acts relating to the sexual exploitation of children.... More...
$ (12-19-2025 - TX)<H2> United States of America v. Brice Andrew Flickinger
Houston, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with coercion and enticement of a minor. On July 9, 2021, the victim’s mother reported her daughter missing. Shortly thereafter, authorities conducted a traffic stop after observing a vehicle with two men, including Brice Flickinger Flickinger as passenger, drop the minor victim off near her home. A search resulted in t... More...
$ (12-15-2025 - TX)<H2> United States of America v. Devon Shermaine Rhodes
Houston, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with r possessing with the intent to distribute bulk crystal methamphetamine. On Nov. 8, 2022, authorities conducted surveillance at a local fast-food establishment where they observed a drug transaction involving Devon Shermaine Rhodes. He had paid more than $10,000 in cash for approximately five kilograms of crystal met... More...
$ (12-15-2025 - TX)<H2> United States of America v. Victor Torres
Dallas, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with two counts of production of child pornography. In 2023, Victor Torres paid two different 13-to-14-year-old children to produce sexually explicit material to send to him online. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) discovered Torres’s criminal activity when they received a CyberTip from an online money exchange pl... More...
$ (12-15-2025 - TX)<H2> United States of America v. Skyler Shoemaker
Dallas, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distribution of child pornography. Skyler Shoemaker, age 34, of Colorado City, Texas, used Facebook Messenger to send a sexually explicit video of a four- to six-year-old child to his girlfriend, Angel Bradford. Additionally, information presented at the sentencing hearing indicated that Shoemaker used various platfo... More...
$ (12-15-2025 - TX)State of Texas v. Zachary Suarez
Waco, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child after a 12-year-old girl receiving treatment at a hospital learned she was pregnant.<br> <br> Zachary Suarez, age 33, impregnated a 12-year-old girl.<br> <br> Detectives obtained buccal swabs from the girl and the infant which showed that Suarez was the father of the child.... More...
$0 (11-23-2025 - TX)Texas Department of Family and Protective Services v, D.V.
Austin, Texas, family law lawyer represent Defendant in a parental termination action.<br> <br> As future-Chief Justice Pope explained for the Court nearly half a century ago, for example, "[a]ctions which break the ties between a parent and child can never be justified without the most solid and substantial reasons," and so "in an action which permanently sunders those ties," the "proceedings [sh... More...
$0 (11-03-2025 - TX)State of Texas v. Christopher Weiss
Waco, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with capital murder of a child under ten years old.... More...
$0 (10-22-2025 - TX)The State of Texas v. Larry Dean Cole
Conroe, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child.... More...
$0 (10-24-2025 - TX)United States of America v. Charles Lloyd Britt, Jr.
Fort Worth, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with transportation of child porn.... More...
$0 (10-24-2025 - TX)<h1> United States of America v. Savin Seng aka “Two-Face†</h1></h1>
Houston, TX criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with federal weapons violation <br> <br> A 41-year-old illegal alien from Cambodia has been charged with unlawfully possessing a weapon following the shooting death of a woman in Victoria, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei. <br> <br> Savin Seng aka "Two-Face†had illegally resided in Victoria and is now in federa... More...
$0 (10-08-2025 - TX)State of Texas, v. Spencer Mandell Giron
Beaumont, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with failing to register as a sex offender.<br> <br> Spencer Mandell Giron, 48, was taken into custody without incident following a traffic stop in Lake Charles, La. Working off investigative information, DPS CID Special Agents from Beaumont coordinated with the Lake Charles Police Department to locate Giron. That coordinati... More...
$0 (10-14-2025 - TX)United States of America v. Sean Shaughnessy
Dallas, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with two drug-conspiracy counts, one<br> distribution count, and one possession of child pornography count, all arising<br> from his use of online dark web marketplaces to traffic narcotics,... More...
$0 (10-02-2025 - TX)<H2> The State of Texas v. Chad Lane Guinn
Longview, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of child pornography with intent to distribute, which was a second-degree felony at the time his offense was committed in 2022.... More...
$0 (10-03-2025 - tx)State of Texas v. Andrew Wayne Roark
Dallas, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with child abuse.<br> <br> On July 16, 1997, Roark was caring for his girlfriend's 13-month-old child when he later discovered<br> the child unconscious that afternoon at home. After undergoing examination, it was medically<br> determined that the one-year-old had been violently shaken and Roark was charged with injury to a<b... More...
$0 (02-14-2000 - TX)State of Texas v. Kenneth Donald Haygood
Tyler, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexual assault.<br> <br> Kenneth Donald Haygood, 56, was indicted in 2023 on eight felony charges. These include six counts of sexual assault, one of sexually assaulting a child and one of practicing medicine without a license. ... More...
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