Utah Landlord and Tenant Law
<h2> <center> United States of America v. Pitshou Yunga Kafuku </h2> ,<center>
Salt Lake City, Utah, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with check fraud. <center><h2> <a href="https://www.morelaw.com/*/lawyers/*/criminal_defense.asp"target="_new"><h2>Click Here For The Best * Criminal Defense Lawyer Directory</h2></a></font></center> Pitshou Yunga Kafuku, 43, of Millcreek, Utah, ran a check fraud scheme between 2022–2025, stealing upwards of $... More...
$ (08-03-2026 - UT)<h2> <center> Jeffrey Christensen v. Courtney Jessica Christensen </h2> <center>
Salt Lake City, Utah family law lawyers represented the parties in a divorce action. 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> After some twelve years of marriage, Jeffrey Christensen and Courtney Jessica Christensen divorced. They were able to agree on the terms of their separation, and these terms w... More...
$ (07-13-2026 - UT)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Marcus Kentral Brown </h2> </center>
St. George, Utah, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with possession of cocaine with intent to distribute in violation of 21 U.S.C. 841(A)(1). 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 July 13, 2021, Marcus Kentral Brown, 44, of Chicago, Illinois, was pulled over by a Utah Hig... More...
$ (07-13-2026 - UT)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Jawuan Donte Thomas </h2> </center>
Salt Lake City, Utah, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with bank robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C. 2113(a). 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> Jawuan Donte Thomas attempted to rob a bank ATM in Riverton, Utah. Thomas admitted that prior to the attempted robbery, he and tw... More...
$ (07-13-2026 - UT)<h2> <center> State of Utah v. Featheston </h2> </center>
Salt Lake City, Utah, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with aggravated kidnapping based on an unlawful detention. 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> The power to define crimes and fix their penaltiesis the “prerogative of the legislature.” State v. Tapp,... More...
$ (06-22-2026 - UT)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Jevaunte Reese </h2> </center>
Salt Lake City, Utah, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with bank rubbery by force or violence in violation of 18 U.S.C.2113(a). 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 September 11, 2024, Taylorsville Police Department and special agents from the FBI responded to the Mounta... More...
$ (06-18-2026 - UT)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Robert Sutherland Maclean </h2> </center>
Salt Lake City, Utah, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged withabusive sexual contact while in the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2244(b) and 2246(3), and 49 U.S.C. § 46506. 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> Robert Sutherl... More...
$ (06-18-2026 - UT)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Jennifer Joma and Lauren Kelsey Morrow </h2> <center>
Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyers represent the Defendants charged with helping an illegal alien evade U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrest. 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> Jennifer Joma, 27, and Lauren Kelsey Morrow, 26, both of Logan, Utah, were working at the L... More...
$ (06-10-2026 - UT)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Christopher J. Ashby, et al. </h2> </center>
Salt Lake City, Utah, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with mail and wire 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> Christopher J. Ashby, age 52, and others participated in a nationwide scheme to defraud victims out of more than $30 million by inducing them to invest in N... More...
$ (05-18-2026 - UT)<h2> <center> State of Utah v. Kouri Richins </h2> </center>
Salt Lake City, Utah, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with aggravated murder. Reported by Kent Morlan Kouri Richins was accused of poisoning her husband to get his wealth and to get insurance money on a $100,000 life insurance policy she purchased. The prosecution asserted that Kouri killed Eric for his money because her business was failing. The called 911 ... More...
$ (05-22-2026 - UT)<H2> <CENTER> United States of America v. Devin Michael Tew </h2> </center>
Salt Lake City, Utah, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with unlawful possession of drug-manufacturing paraphernalia. By Kent Morlan Devin Michael Tew, 40, of West Jordan, Utah, operated an illegal online business via his website poppyseedwash.com. More specifically, he sold “PoppySeed Wash” kits to customers who wanted to get high off the opium coatings on specia... More...
$ (05-10-2026 - ut)<h2> <center> United States of America v. hristopher Gerard Ruiz </h2> </center>
Salt Lake City, Utah, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with drug trafficking. On October 26, 2023, a Utah Highway Patrol trooper made a traffic stop on I-15. Christopher Gerard Ruiz, 42, of Las Vegas, Nevada, was the passenger, Aponas was the driver, and three children ages10 and under were in the backseat. Aponas admitted to law enforcement that methamphetamine was in ... More...
$ (04-29-2026 - UT)<h2> <center> United States of America v. David Estiven Alvear Carcamo </h2> </center>
Salt Lake City, Utah, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of fentanyl with intent to distribute. David Estiven Alvear Carcamo, age 21, was found to be in possesson of approximately 10,000 fentanyl pills, and a handgun.... More...
$ (04-17-2026 - UT)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Johnston Blackhorse </h2> </center>
St. George, Utah, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of child pornography. In February 2025, while serving a lifetime of supervised release for prior child sex crimes, two probation officers conducted a home visit where Johnston Blackhorse, 42, lived alone in Aneth, Utah.. Pursuant to Blackhorse’s supervised release conditions, the officers conducted a... More...
$ (04-17-2026 - UT)<h2> <center> State of Utah v. Damien Michael Draughon </h2> </center>
Salt Lake City, Utah, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with six counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child, one count of obstruction of justice, and two counts of dealing in materials harmful to a minor. Damien Michael Draughon married a woman who had two children from a prior relationship. He subsequently developed what he acknowledged was an inappropriate relati... More...
$ (04-07-2026 - UT)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Zuemei Zhao </h2> </center>
Salt Lake City, Utah, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of a firearm by a restricted person (alien). uemei Zhao, 54, of the People’s Republic of China, admitted that she illegally possessed a black Rossi Braztech Int’l .357 Magnum revolver pistol in Zhao’s checked luggage. Prior to delivering the suitcase to American Airlines, Zhao did not disclose ... More...
$ (04-07-2026 - UT)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Michael Austin Ford </h2> </center>
Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with arson. Michael Austin Ford, 60, of West Valley City, intentionally set a Granite School District school bus on fire with a cigarette lighter on April 7, 2023. Ford was captured on video igniting the bus and continued to drive the bus with smoke billowing past his face. In other court documents, prosecutors descr... More...
$ (03-27-2026 - UT)<h2> <center> State of Utah v. Kouri Richins </h2> </center>
Park City, Utah, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with first-degree murder. Kouri Richins, age 35, a Utah mother, was accused of poisoning her husband, Eric Hichins, age 39, in 2022 and then writing a book about it. The evidence introduce revealed that the Defendant's husband was highly insured and she inherited $4 million. The Defendant did not testify and she di... More...
$ (03-16-2026 - UT)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Michael David Hanson </h2> </center>
Salt Lake City, Utah, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with posting threats against then President Biden and Vice President Harris on the social media site X. On December 22, 2023, Michael David Hanson, 44, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, posted “#joeAndKamala I’m asking you to resign on Monday your alternative is death brutally murdered…” on one of his X accounts. ... More...
$ (03-09-2026 - UT)State of Utah v. Ivan Miller
Loa, Utah, criminal defense lawyer will represent the defendant charged with three counts murder. Iowan Ivan Miller is accused for killing three women. Investigators used automated license plate readers and a victim’s own vehicle key fob to track and apprehend the suspect. The suspect's vehicle was tracked from Utah, to Arizona and then to Colorado before he was apprehended.... More...
$ (03-05-2026 - UT)United States of America v. Isidro De Jesus-Mayo
Salt Lake City, Utah, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with illegally reentering the United States. Isidro De Jesus-Mayo, 44, of Mexico, was charged by felony information on December 17, 2025. In addition to his term of imprisonment, the court imposed a sentence of three years of supervised release. Upon his release of imprisonment, De Jesus-Mayo will be remanded to the c... More...
$ (02-19-2026 - UT)State of Utah v. Christiano Antonio Madison
Salt Lake City, Utah, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with murder and aggravated robbery. Christiano Antonio Madison, age 21, accused robbing and murdering a man of his marijuana.... More...
$ (02-10-2026 - UT)United States of America v. Benedicta Okunlola
Salt Lake City, Utah, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud. Benedicta Okunlola, 32, of Salt Lake City, used her position as a Merchant Growth Specialist to issue 2,343 prepaid gift cards to herself, her online art business, and family members. In her role, she had access to her company’s credit card for marketing promotions and incentives and was the only... More...
$ (02-10-2026 - UT)State of Utah v. Matthew Elton
Manti, Utah, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with child abuse with serious physical injury. ¶1 Matthew Elton was charged with child abuse with serious physical injury, aggravated assault, burglary, robbery, and violating a protective order. Elton pleaded guilty to those charges and was sentenced to prison. While those charges had been pending, the court had issued a ... More...
$ (01-29-2026 - UT)United States of America v. Silvano Gonzalez Venavidez, aka Eduardo Torres-Zepeda, Edgar Ulises Torres Cervantes, aka Juan Maldonado Garcia, and Carlos Roberto Limon Martinez
Salt Lake City, Utah, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with drug trafficking. Silvano Gonzalez Venavidez, aka Eduardo Torres-Zepeda, 34; Edgar Ulises Torres Cervantes, aka Juan Maldonado Garcia, 38; and Carlos Roberto Limon Martinez, 21, all from Mexico, living in Salt Lake City were charged by complaint on January 15, 2026. Beginning in November 2025, the FBI Wasatc... More...
$ (01-29-2026 - UT)<H2> United States of America v. Rodney Quinn Rupe
Salt Lake City, Utah, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempted to steal more than $2 million in tax credits and wire fraud. On April 15, 2022, Rodney Quinn Rupe, 47, of Syracuse, Utah, an employee of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, accessed the IRS systems and moved tax credits in the amount of $2,021,986 from ExxonMobil’s taxpayer account to a taxpayer acco... More...
$ (01-16-2026 - UT)<H2> United States of America v. Muna Abdi
Salt Lake City, Utah, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conversion of government funds. From November 1, 2021, to about June 30, 2024, Muna Abdi, 36, a Somali national living in Millcreek, Utah, converted funds from the United States Social Security Administration (SSA) for her own benefit. The SSA, who was not aware of Abdi’s mother’s death, continued to dispe... More...
$ (01-05-2026 - UT)<H2> United States of America v. Mountazar Altalibi and Jaafar Altalibi
Salt Lake City, Utah, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distributing Alpha-yrrolidinohexanophenone, commonly referred to as “Alpha PHP,” or “bath salts. Mountazar Altalibi, 36, of Salt Lake County, Utah, and Jaafar Altalibi, 44, both of Salt Lake County, were charged with distributing Alpha-Pyrrolidinohexanophenone, commonly referred to as “Alpha PHP,” or ... More...
$ (01-09-2026 - UT)<H2> State of Utah v. Malachi Robles-Romo
St. George, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with manslaughter, felony discharge of a firearm, possession of a stolen firearm, possession of a firearm by a restricted person, and possession of a controlled substance. Malachi Robles-Romo admitted that he shot and killed a St. George juvenile.... More...
$ (01-09-2026 - UT)<H2> United States of America v. Austin Riley Jensen
St. George, Utah, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with r producing and receiving child sexual abuse material involving a 15-year-old victim. Law enforcement found communications between Austin Riley Jensen, 33, of Hurricane, Utah, and an individual on federal supervised release in Las Vegas, Nevada, which occurred between October 2022 and December 2022, containing ima... More...
$ (01-09-2026 - UT)<H2> State of Utah v. Macaila Jaye Jenkins
Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented Macaila Jaye Jenkins, age 25, charged with two counts of burglary, criminal mischief and two counts of theft valued from $1,500 to $4,999.... More...
$ (12-30-2025 - UT)<H2> United States of America v. Halee Ann Mehlbauer
Salt Lake City, Utah, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fraudulently obtained approximately $177,030 in COVID-19 Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Loans, along with her codefendant, Timothy Lopez, which they did not qualify for. She was also sentenced to two years’ supervised release and ordered by the court to pay $177,030 in restitution, of which $48,507 is to be ... More...
$ (12-23-2025 - UT)<H2> State of Utah v. Mia Bailey
St. George, Utah, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with two counts of aggravated murder and one count of aggravated assault.... More...
$ (12-19-2025 - UT)<H2> United States of America v. Terry Lynn Reynolds
Salt Lake City, Utah, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire and mail fraud. Beginning on or about November 8, 2004, and continuing to about June 13, 2025, Terry Lynn Reynolds, 69, of West Jordan, Utah, allegedly executed a scheme to assume the identity of Person 1, who received disability income from a private insurance policy (Company 1) and Social Security benefi... More...
$ (12-19-2025 - UT)<enter> United States of America v. Bryan Walter McMahan
Salt Lake City, Utah, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distributing fentanyl by mailing a package of oxycodone pills containing fentanyl to a Utah woman, who died after ingesting the narcotic. Brayan Walter McMahan, age 41, of Las Vegas, Skip to main content An official website of the United States government USAO-UT seal Utilities About USAO-UT Find ... More...
$ (12-10-2025 - UT)<H2> State of Utah v. Sterrett Oney Neale
Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with seven counts of sex-related crimes committed against one of his students. The victim told investigators about a pattern of the abuse that began in March of 2017—when she was a seventeen-year-old student of the defendant—after a school-play that the victim participated in and the defendant directed. Initia... More...
$ (11-28-2025 - UT)<H2> United States of America v. Bryce Lucas Stimka
Salt Lake City, Utah, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with producing child pornography, receiving child pornography, and enticement to engage in illegal sexual activity. n July 2024, Stimka (who was twenty-three years old) began an online relationship via Snapchat with a fourteen-year-old girl in Utah. Over roughly the next nine months, Stimka and the girl exchang... More...
$ (11-28-2025 - UT)<H2> United States of America v. Todd Harold Cooper
Salt Lake City, Utah, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with armed bank robbery.<br> <br> In 2003, a jury convicted Cooper of armed bank robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113. At sentencing, the government sought a life sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 3559(c), the three strikes provision. Relevant here, § 3559(c) mandates a life<br> sentence if the defendant "is conv... More...
$0 (11-19-2025 - UT)<H2> United States of America v. Bryce Lucas Stimka
Salt Lake City, Utah, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with producing child pornography, receiving child pornography, and enticement to engage in illegal sexual activity.<br> <br> In July 2024, Stimka (who was twenty-three years old) began an online<br> relationship via Snapchat with a fourteen-year-old girl in Utah. Over roughly the<br> next nine months, Stimka and the gi... More...
$0 (11-19-2025 - UT)State of Utah v. Todd Snider
Salt Lake City, Utah, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with disorderly conduct, threat of violence, and criminal trespassin<br> <br> Singer-songwriter Todd Snider was arrested for causing a disturbance at Holy Cross Hospital in Salt Lake City.... More...
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