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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)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)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)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)State of Utah v. Ashlee Buzzard
Salt Lake City, Utah, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with first degree murder. Ashlee Buzzard, age 40, is accused of killing her 9-year-old daughter, Melodee, whose body was found in a rural area of Utah more than 2 months after she went missing.... More...
(12-26-2025 - UT)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)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)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)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)State of Utah v. Najee Eugene Christopher
Salt Lake City, Utah, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with sexually assaulting a woman after striking her in the head during a conversation. Najee Eugene Christopher, 30, is charged with four counts of aggravated sexual assault.... More...
(11-19-2025 - UT)United States of America v. Todd Harold Cooper
Salt Lake City, Utah, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with armed bank robbery. 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 sentence if the defendant “i... More...
(11-19-2025 - UT)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. In 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 gi... More...
(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 Singer-songwriter Todd Snider was arrested for causing a disturbance at Holy Cross Hospital in Salt Lake City.... More...
(11-10-2025 - UT)United States of America v. Marlon Alonzo Smith
Salt Lake City, Utah, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of controlled substance (drugs) with intent to distribute. During a traffic stop, a drug-detection dog named Marco signaled that he smelled drugs in Smith’s car. Law enforcement discovered more than a kilogram of methamphetamine in the trunk. A federal jury later convicted Smith of pos... More...
(11-07-2025 - UT)State of Utah v. Todd Snider
Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with disorderly conduct, criminal trespassing, and threatening violence. Country Singer Todd Snider was arrested Sunday for allegedly causing a disturbance Sunday at a hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah.... More...
(11-04-2025 - UT)State of Utah v. Charles Errill Lavadie
Salt Lake City, Utah, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with negligently operating a vehicle resulting in serious bodily injury for taking a painkiller and subsequently crashing his truck into a home, pinning a 10-year-old beneath his vehicle. On July 3, 2020, South Salt Lake Police were called to investigate a vehicle that crashed into a home near 3300 South and ... More...
(10-20-2025 - UT)United States of America v. Juan Alberto Hernandez-Rodriguez
Salt Lake City, Utah, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with illegal reentry after deportation. ... More...
(10-20-2025 - UT)Chanetlle Jones v. City of Sarasota Springs
Salt lake City, Utah personal injury laweyrs represented the Plaintiff who soed on a 42 U.S.C. 1983 civil rights violation theory.... More...
$1 (10-20-2025 - UT)Joseph Santarlas v. Bowtech, Inc., et al.
Salt Lake City, Utah, civil and commercial litigation lawyers represented the parties in an anti-trust case. Bowtech manufactures and sells compound bows for hunting and target archery. Bowtech is named as a defendant in a class-action lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah, which alleges the company and other archery industry manufacturers and retaile... More...
(10-20-2025 - UT)State of Utah v. Michael Bynum
Salt Lake City, Utah, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with murder. Mihcale Bynum, age 54, was accused for killing his roomamte, Timothy Rutenberg, age 59, who was found death in a room at the Ville, a shelter where the unhoused can apply for and be given a roommate.... More...
(10-09-2025 - UT)United States of America v. Daniel Moreno
Salt Lake City, Utah, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with use of a firearm during a crime of violence.... More...
(10-09-2025 - UT)Karen Mitchell v. Auto-Owners Insurance Company
Salt Lake City, Utah insurance law lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a bad faith breach of insurance contract claim. ... More...
(10-09-2025 - UT)Cheryl Rsmussen v., et al. v. Springs Window Fashions. LLC, et. al.
Salt Lake City, Utah, personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiffs who sued on premises liability theories.... More...
(10-09-2025 - UT)United States of America v. Adeeb Ahamed Nasir and Adil Justice Ahmed Nasir
Salt Lake City, Utah, criminal defense lawyer are representing the Defendants charged with Threat of Terrorism, Possessing Weapons of Mass Destruction, and Possessing Explosive Devices. Adeeb Ahamed Nasir, 58, and Adil Justice Ahmed Nasir, 31, were booked into jail and face multiple charges, ... More...
(09-19-2025 - UT)State of Utah v. Tyler Robinson
Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with murder. Tyler Robinson, age 22, was accused for shooting and killing Charlie Kirk.... More...
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