Texas Kidnapping Law
<h2> <center> United States of America v. Cameron Jake Tucker </h2> </center>
Houston, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with kidnapping and hostage taking as well as harboring an illegal alien and conspiracy to do so. 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> On May 14, 2025, after authorities responded to reports of an illegal alien who had esc... More...
$ (07-21-2026 - TX)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Brayden Matthew Alvarado </h2> </center>
El Paso, Texas, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with kidnapping 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> Brayden Matthew Alvarado, 23, of Vado, New Mexico, carjacked a man before driving him onto Fort Bliss desert property and fatally shooting him in the h... More...
$ (06-04-2026 - TX)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Mimi Hunyh </h2> </center>
Amarillo, Texas criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with attempted kidnapping. Reported by Kent Morlan Mimi Hunyh, age 65, traveled from Law Vegas to Amarillo to kidnap an Amarillo business man.... More...
$ (05-23-2026 - TX)<H2> State of Texas v. Kevin Andrew Frimpong
San Marcos, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempted kidnapping. Kevin Andrew Frimpong, 38, accused of approaching a woman at the San Marcos City Cemetery and another at a nearby residence.... More...
$ (12-14-2025 - TX)State of Texas v. Taylor Rene Parker
Boston, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with capital murder.<br> <br> In November 2022, Taylor Rene Parker was tried for and convicted of capital murder pursuant to Section 19.03(a)(2) of the Penal Code for committing the murder of an individual in the course of committing or attempting to commit a <br> kidnapping. TEX. PENAL CODE § 19.03(a)(2).<br> <br> The medi... More...
$0 (11-06-2025 - TX)<h1> United States of America v. Noe Gonzalez-Martinez aka Tocayo </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Laredo, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Drug trafficking, murder-for-hire and kidnapping conspiracies </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Drug trafficking, murder-for-hire and kidnapping conspiracies send cartel leader to prison for life</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <... More...
$0 (03-26-2025 - TX)<h1> United States of America v. Job Jasso Jr. </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Midland, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Producing Child Pornography </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Midland Felon Sentenced to 30 Years in Federal Prison for Producing Child Pornography </h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> A Midland man was sentenced in federal co... More...
$0 (03-28-2025 - TX)<h1> United States of America v. Luis Edward Castro </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> San Antonio, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with six counts pertaining to harboring and transporting undocumented noncitizens for financial gain </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> "La Empresa†Member Sentenced in El Paso to Nearly 20 Years in Federal Prison</h2></center></b></b> </h... More...
$0 (02-21-2025 - TX)<h1> United States of America v. Lukumond Adebola Olatunji </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Dallas, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Sexually Assaulting Teen Girl </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Man Who Sexually Assaulted Teen Girl Sentenced to 20 Years for Kidnapping </h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> A 46-year-old man who raped a 14-year-old on video w... More...
$0 (01-17-2025 - TX)<h1> United States of America v. Sixto Gonzalez Jr </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Houston, TX criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Kidnapping for ransom </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Kidnapping for ransom in Mexico sends Pharr man to prison</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> A 27-year-old Pharr man has been ordered to federal prison following his convict... More...
$0 (01-14-2025 - TX)The State of Texas v. Emanuel Ochoa
<h2><br> Gainesville, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant accused of aggravated sexual assult of a hild under the age of six,"injury to a child causing serious mental injury, and kidnapping, all stemming from his sexual assault of a five-year-old girl. He was 14 years old at the time of the conduct.<br> <h2><br> <br> In the early morning hours of February 6, 2018, M.G., who was... More...
$0 (11-27-2024 - TX)<h1> United States of America v. Vincent Jerome Thompson; Lukumond Adebola Olatunji </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Fort Worth, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Narrating Child's Sexual Assault on Video </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Man Who Narrated Child's Sexual Assault on Video Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> Vincent Jerome Thompson, age 4... More...
$0 (10-14-2024 - TX)<h1> United States of America v. Vincent Jerome Thompson </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Dallas, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Narrating Child's Sexual Assault on Video </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Man Who Narrated Child's Sexual Assault on Video Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> Vincent Jerome Thompson, age 43, an... More...
$0 (10-09-2024 - TX)<h1> United States of America v. Armando Leonardo Moreno </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> San Antonio, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with a Deadly Kidnapping </font </color="red"></b></h2></center></i></i><b><h2><center></i></b> El Paso Man Sentenced to Over 21 Years for Deadly Kidnapping in El Paso </h2></center><br> <br> An El Paso man was sentenced to 262 months in prison for kidnapping resulting in death.<br>... More...
$0 (04-24-2024 - TX)<h1> United States of America v. Ronald Brown </h1>
<b><h2><center><i><font color="red"> Houston, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with a murder-for-hire plot .</font color="red"></b></h2></center></i></i><b><h2><br> <center><i></b> Local drug trafficker gets life in prison for his role in murder-for-hire plot </h2></center></i><br> <br> A 50-year-old man has been sentenced for perpetrating multiple violent crimes r... More...
$0 (03-08-2024 - TX)<h1> United States of America v. Anthony Scott Gordon </h1>
<b><h2><center><font color="red"><i> Dallas, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Two-Time Carjacking.</b></h2></center></i></font color="red"></i><br> <b><h3><center><i></b> Two-Time Carjacker Who Kidnapped Victims Sentenced to 30 Years in Federal Prison </h3></center></i><br> <br> A carjacker who kidnapped two people in an attempt to avoid law enforcement was sen... More...
$0 (03-04-2024 - TX)State of Texas v. Carlos Jaile
El Paso, Texas defendant was charged with child sexual abuse.<br> <br> Carlos Jaile was charged with aggravated sexual assault and kidnapping,<br> <br> The Texas Court of Appeals - El Paso described the case against Jaile as follows:<br> <br> "On August 3, 1987, the eight-year-old complainant was abducted, taken to a secluded area of El Paso and sexually assaulted by a man she did not know. The ac... More...
$0 (12-17-1990 - TX)United States of America v. Wilmer Rivera-Hernandez
Houston, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with interstate travel with intent to engage in a sex act with a minor.<br> <br> Wilmer Rivera-Hernandez pleaded guilty Aug. 24. and was sentenced to 600 months in federal prison. At the hearing, the court heard additional information including a statement from the victim describing her transformation from a young, innocent ... More...
$0 (12-04-2023 - TX)State of Texas v. Sasha Skare
San Antonio, Texas criminal defense lawyers represented Defendant charged with second-degree murder.<br> <br> Saaha Skare was accused of shooting and killing Matreel "Kardoone" DeRouen, age 34, in 2021.<br> <br> The case was prosecuted by Chris Ramos and Ashley Jones.<br> <br> Sec. 19.01. TYPES OF CRIMINAL HOMICIDE. (a) A person commits criminal homicide if he intentionally, knowingly, reckless... More...
$0 (09-01-2023 - TX)Nakisha Jackson v. Christopher Wray, et al.
Dallas, Texas pro se Plaintiff filed this action against the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, unknown federal agents, Apple Inc., and Charter Communications. (See doc. 3.) The non-federal defendants have moved to dismiss her claims against them. (See docs. 9, 13.) Citing Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(f), the plaintiff seeks to strike the defendants' motions to dismiss on grounds that they are fr... More...
$0 (05-24-2023 - TX)Patrick Leonard Martin v. The State of Texas
<center><h2><font color="red">Austin, Texas – Criminal Defense lawyer represented Appellant with a burglary of a habitation charge. </center></h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> Kristin Ellington1 began a dating relationship with Martin in 2014. Martin lived <br> "off and on†with Ellington and her mother, Marcia Larson, at Larson's home in Bulverde, <br> Texas. Although at first th... More...
$0 (12-03-2022 - TX)Oliver Q. Martinez v. The State of Texas
<center><h2><font color="red"> Houston, Texas – Criminal Defense lawyer represented defendant charged with aggravated assault of a public servant.</center></h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> Around midnight on July 14, 2016, Sergeant I. Hernandez of the Houston <br> Police Department responded to a kidnapping report. Martinez was the suspect. The <br> vehicle, a Lexus, reportedly involve... More...
$0 (11-22-2022 - tx)United States of America v. Fernando Angel Puga, a/k/a Cholo
El Paso, Texas criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with car jacking.<br> <br> On June 9, 2017, Fernando Angel Puga, aka Cholo, 37, of Las Cruces, New Mexico, and his co-defendant Sergio Ivan Quinonez-Venegas, 38, from Mexico, approached a man working at a food truck in El Paso. Puga and Quinonez told the victim their car had broken down and asked for a ride. While the victim was giv... More...
$0 (10-31-2022 - TX)State of Texas v. Manuel Mendoza
Wichita Falls, Texas criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with aggravated sexual assault and two counts of indecency with a child by contact.<br> <br> Manuel Mendoza was accused of aggravated sexual assault and two counts on indecency with a child by contact by forcing the girls to perform sexual acts on him when she was in bed with him at night when she was 8 or 9 years old.<br> <br... More...
$0 (10-21-2022 - TX)State of Texas v. Taylor Parker
New Boston, Texas criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with capital-murder and kidnapping.<br> <br> Taylor Parker was accused of killing an expectant mother and cutting her unborn child, Braxlyn, out of her body.... More...
$0 (10-03-2022 - TX)United States of America v. Jesse Paul Blankenship, A/K/A JP
Beaumont, Texas criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with Racketeering.<br> <br> A Stratford, Missouri man has been sentenced for Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations violations stemming from his membership in the white supremacy prison gang, the Aryan Circle, announced U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.<br> <br> Jesse Paul Blankenship, 39, also known as JP, was convicted at ... More...
$0 (09-08-2022 - TX)United States of America v. Raymundo Guerra
El Paso, Texas criminal law lawyer represented defendant charged with conspiracy to kidnap.<br> <br> On December 23, 2015, Raymundo Guerra, age 36, from El Paso, agreed with Charles Douglass, 39, and Lawrence Dean Henry, aka Gotti, 33, both of El Paso, to kidnap a man they thought had stolen methamphetamine from Guerra. The victim was kidnapped in Chaparral, NM, then forcibly moved to El Paso and... More...
$0 (07-29-2022 - TX)State of Texas v. Andrew Riggs
Wichita Falls, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with indecency with an 8-year=old child and continuing for 10 years.<br> <br> Andrew Riggs, age 46, was charged with sexual indecency with a child. The child testified that Defendant abused her during the entire time that he dated her mother who caught him abusing her.<br> <br> Title 5 Texas Penal Code Sec. 21.01 provides:... More...
$0 (05-23-2022 - TX)State of Texas v. Zenas Montre Whitaker
Center, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with ggravated assault with a deadly weapon, aggravated kidnapping, and aggravated sexual assault.<br> <br> Zenas Montre Whitaker was charged with multiple felonies for brutally beating her girlfriend with a baseball bat and kidnapping their to a total of 105 years in prison.<br> <br> ... More...
$0 (05-13-2022 - TX)State of Texas v. Darius Fields
Dallas, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with kidnapping and murder.<br> <br> Darius Fields, age 31, was accused for kidnapping and killing a 13-year-old girl in retaliation for stolen drugs.<br> <br> The State alleged that Fields was the kingpin of a lucrative drug operation and the mastermind behind the kidnapping of the child.<br> <br> Michael Titus field was also mur... More...
$0 (03-09-2022 - TX)Christopher Revill v. The State of Texas
<center><h2><font color="red"> Fort Worth, Texas - Criminal defense attorney represented Defendant charged with a Aggravated Kidnapping. </h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> The indictment alleged that on or about October 10, 2016, Appellant <br> Christopher Revill intentionally or knowingly abducted Typhenie Johnson with the <br> intent to terrorize her.1<br> A jury found Revill guilty of agg... More...
$0 (07-13-2021 - TX)Roy Castillo v. The State of Texas
<center><h2><font color="red"> Houston, Texas - Criminal defense attorney represented Roy Castillo with a Escape charge. </h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> Castillo was indicted for the third-degree felony offense of escape from <br> custody while charged with a felony offense, namely robbery. See TEX. PENAL CODE <br> § 38.06(a)(1), (c)(1). At trial, Houston Police Department (HPD) Officer... More...
$0 (07-04-2021 - TX)United States of America v. Damien Dre Gonzales
Lubbock, Texas kidnapping charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant.<br> <br> Damien Dre Gonzales, 27, of Levelland, Texas was charged with one count of kidnapping for abducting a 9-year-old girl from a birthday party.<br> <br> Mr. Gonzales admitted to abducting a 9-year old girl at a birthday party in Levelland, Texas to engage in illicit sexual intercourse.<br> <br> During the birthd... More...
$0 (06-15-2021 - TX)United States of America v. Daniel Jenkins
Dallas, Texas federal hate crime charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Daniel Jenkins, 22, of Dallas, who was charged with a federal hate crime and two other charges in connection with his involvement in a scheme to target gay men for violent crimes.<br> <br> "The Department of Justice and the Civil Rights Division are committed to confronting the scourge of hate-based violence gri... More...
$0 (06-04-2021 - TX)Joe Lee James v. The State of Texas
<center><h2><font color="red"> Fort Worth, Texas - Criminal defense attorney represented Joe Lee James with violating an emergency protective order and (2) committing felony assault causing bodily injury charge. </h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> At the root of these offenses is domestic violence. James and Jane began dating <br> in 2017. Soon the relationship became abusive, and he abused he... More...
$0 (05-22-2021 - TX)David Rene Martinez v. The State of Texas
<center><h2><font color="red"> Houston, Texas - Criminal defense attorney represented David Rene Martinez with a Indecency with a Child charge. </h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> On January 23, 2018, six-year-old Katie3 was in the car with her mother and <br> her four-year-old sister when her mother stopped at the Quick Quack Car Wash. <br> Katie and her sister sat in the back seat while the... More...
$0 (05-20-2021 - TX)David Ybarra Jr. v. The State of Texas
<center><h2><font color="red"> Eastland, TX - Criminal defense attorney represented David Ybarra Jr. with aggravated kidnapping and murder charges.</h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> Prior to Garibaldi's kidnapping and murder, Appellant and Garibaldi were <br> involved in a conflict concerning a debt Garibaldi allegedly owed to Appellant. <br> During a previous confrontation concerning the debt... More...
$0 (04-22-2021 - TX)Jimmy Lee Wright v. The State of Texas
<center><h2><font color="red"> El Paso, Texas - Criminal defense attorney represented Jimmy Lee Wright with an Aggravated Sexual Assault charge</h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> <br> A. The Sexual Assault<br> Seventy-seven-year-old "V.H.†was sexually assaulted in her home by an unknown <br> assailant at approximately 10:30 p.m. on September 10, 2011. Later that evening, Elizabeth 2<br>... More...
$0 (04-20-2021 - TX)United States of America v. Damien Dre Gonzales
Lubbock, Texas kidnapping charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Damien Dre Gonzales, 27, of Levelland, Texas was charged with kidnapping for abducting a 9-year-old girl from a birthday party.<br> <br> "No child should ever have to endure the terror of being abducted,†said Acting U.S. Attorney Prerak Shah. "I am thankful for the rapid response of law enforcement to rescue th... More...
$0 (02-19-2021 - TX)Danita Carol Thetford v. The State of Texas
<center><h2><font color="red"> Fort Worth, TX - Criminal defense attorney represented Danita Carol Thetford with an <i>Injury to a Child, Elderly or Disabled Individual charge.</h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> It is undisputed that, during the first five years of his life, C.T. suffered from<br> numerous medical conditions, including difficulty eating and constipation, due in part<br> to his... More...
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