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United States of America v. Aaron Farinacci
Spokane, Washington, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with arson for starting the e Old Trails fire on August 1, 2026.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Abdul Qasim Ray Zahi
Seattle, Washington, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with unlawful possession of a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1), murder in the second degree in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1111 and 1153(a), unlawful possession of ammunition in violation of 18 U.S.C. 922(g), and using a firearm during a crime of violence in violation of 18 U.S.C. 924(1)(1)(A)(i)-(iii).
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Rickie Lorenzo Smith
Yakima, Washington criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Assault Resulting in Substantial Bodily Injury to a Spouse, Intimate Partner, or Dating Partner in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1153 in indian Country. 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> Rickie Lorenzo Smith, age 51, a member of the Confederated Bands and Tribes of the Yakama Nation, assaulted his then-partner by hit
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Marlon Arteaga-Calix
Seattle, Washington criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with illegal re-entry into the United States without permission in violation of 8 U.S.C. 1326. Marlon Arteaga-Calix was removed from the U.S. in 2005, 2008, 2011, 2015, 2018, and 2021. After returning he has convictions for multiple drug offenses involving cocaine, crack cocaine, and fentanyl. The severity of the punishment depends heavily on the person's criminal history before deportation: Standard Re-entry
View VerdictState of Washington v. Shawn Rutherford Kueck
Spokane, Washington, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with animal cruelty. 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> T.K. and Shawn Kueck were married and lived on a rural farm in Rice, Washington. In September 2023, the parties separated after a fight and T.K. left the home with the children. Claiming he was "downsizing" the animals, Kueck shot and buried three of their horses
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Tasha Hoggatt
Spokane, Washington, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with theft concerning programs receiving federal funds in violation of 18 U.S.c. 666(a)(1). 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> Between October 1, 2021, and October 31, 2022, Tasha Hoggatt, age 51, of Valencia, California, was employed with the Washington State Employment Security Department (ESD) as a Human Resource
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Daniel Hammond
Tacoma, Washington, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute controlled substances in violation of 21:846, 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(A). 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> Daniel Hammond had the ability to order up multi-pound quantities of methamphetamine and thousands of fentanyl pills that he then sold throughout the Tacoma area. Even after his ar
View VerdictState of Washington v. Travis Jason Stough
Montesano, Washington, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of methamphetamine with intent to deliver. 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> Mr. Stough and Stephanie Olson[1] were romantically involved until May 2023 and would often use methamphetamine together. Mr. Stough was a regular methamphetamine user who would often consume an "eight-ball," (about 3.5 g
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Patrick Alan Bucknum
Spokane, Washington, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with 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> Patrick Alan Bucknum, age 55, formerly of Wenatchee, Washington was the Chief Executive Office of Community Clinic Network (CCN), a company located in Wenatchee, Washington. CCN managed health care payment contracts for a conglomerate of health care clinics across W
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Joshua Shore
Seattle, Washington, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with engaging in a scheme to steal from financial institutions where he worked and then launder the money through other banks, scheme to steal from financial institutions where he worked and then launder the money through other banks. 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> between July 2019 and April 2022, Joshua Shore w
View VerdictState of Washington v. Stpehen Antonio Sauro
Tacoma, Washington, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with vehicular assault. 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> Stpehen Antonio Sauro drove his vehicle while intoxicated and collided with a cyclist.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Dominic Cortez Nichols
Seattle, Washington, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with sexually assaulting the woman in the seat next to him on a flight from Honolulu to Seattle. 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> As a Delta Airlines flight boarded in Kona, a female passenger found Dominic Cortez Nichols, age 31, from Kansas, sitting in her assigned window seat. Rather than get up and allow t
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Jac Archer, Justice Forral, and Bajun Mavalwalla II
Spokane, Washington criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with conspiring to impede law enforcement officers or injure property used in the execution of their duties. 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> Jac Archer, Justice Forral, and Bajun Mavalwalla Ii Archer, Forral, and Mavalwalla, along with six other Defendants with Conspiracy to Injure or Impede Officers of the Unite
View VerdictState of Washington v. Hayden Aaron Erlandson
Yakima, Washington, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with econd degree attempted rape of a child and communicating with a minor for immoral purposes, following a āNet Nannyā sting operation where he communicated with an undercover officer posing as a 13-year-old girl. 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> o conduct an operation, a detective acts as a āchatter.ā Th
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Akeatha Diane Akintola
Seattle, Washington, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with stealing the Social Security benefits intended for a disabled minor. 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> Akeatha Diane Akintola became a social worker for the Snoqualmie Tribe in January 2023. In September 2023, Akintola applied by telephone to be the Social Security Representative Payee for a minor child with i
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Hayley Brown Lundquist and Samantha Fleischacker Gillihan
Seattle, Washington, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant accused of gift card and debit card 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> Hayley Brown Lundquist, 30, of Snohomish County, and Samantha Fleischacker Gillihan, 34, of Arlington, used a sequencing scheme to load gift card numbers on their smart phones ā numbers for gift cards they never purchased that may have been
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Reza Dindar, aka Renda Dindar
Seattle, Washington, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with exporting to an embargoed country, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1702, smuggling goods from the United States in violation of 18 U.S.C. 554, money laundering in violation of 18 U.S.C. 195,, and filing false export record in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1001. 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> between 2010 and 2014, Rend
View VerdictCrawford v. Washington
Petitioner was tried for assault and attempted murder. The State sought to introduce a recorded statement that petitioner's wife Sylvia had made during police interrogation, as evidence that the stabbing was not in self-defense. Sylvia did not testify at trial because of Washington's marital privilege. Petitioner argued that admitting the evidence would violate his Sixth Amendment right to be "confronted with the witnesses against him." Under Ohio v. Roberts, 448 U. S. 56, that right does not ba
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Giovanni Antonio Garduno Garcia
Seattle, Washington, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with armed drug trafficking. 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> Giovanni Antonio Garduno Garcia, age 37, was arrested in May 2025 following a law enforcement investigation of trafficking narcotics to vulnerable people living unhoused near Seattleās Chinatown-International District. On March 9, 2026, Garduno Garc
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Zachary Tyler Vantuyl
Yakima, Washington, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm. Reported by: <a href="http://www.morelaw.com/about">Kent Morlan</a> Agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (āATFā) were investigating a series of wildfires set in 2023 and 2024. During these investigations and through the courage of eyewitness reports, agents began to see a pattern emerge involving what was confirmed to be a serial ar
View VerdictState of Washington v.Kai Domonic Butler
Tacoma, Washington, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with second-degree murder and first-degree manslaughter. Kai Domonic Butler, 29, accused of killing Tashylah Combs, 23, in 2024, by unlawfully imprisoned her in his car before a driving move caused her to fall out, leading to fatal head injuries.
View VerdictState of Washington v. Jane Doe
Tacoma, Washington, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with unlawful discharge of a laser and obstructing a law enforcement officer. The defendant was accused of targeting an agency aircraft with a laser.
View VerdictState of Washington v. Cole Edward Kraquse
Everett, Washington, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with raping three victims.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Brandon Denzel Washington
Seattle, Washington, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion for prostitution. Brandon Denzel Washington, age 33, was charged with trafficking four different women. Multiple victims testified about Washington trafficking and transporting them to Washington, Nevada, California, Oregon, and Hawaii between 2014 and 2021. Washington used the internet to recruit vulnerable women and used violence, manipulation, and false prom
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Dr. Eric Edward Haeger
Spokane, Washington, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with adulterating and misbranding medical devices with the intent to defraud or mislead. In June 2021, Philips Respironics initiated a recall for certain CPAP and BiPAP devices due to potential health risks associated with the foam used in the devices for sound abatement. The recall was classified as a Class I recall because there was a reasonable probability that the use of, or exposure to, the devices would cause
View VerdictState of Washington v. Andrez Gerald Reyna
Montesano, Washington, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempting to elude a pursuing police vehicle and one count of custodial assault. Reyna committed crimes in Lewis County before he committed the current Grayās Harbor County offenses. After his arrest for the Grays Harbor County offenses, Reyna was sentenced for the Lewis County offenses, before then pleading guilty and being sentenced for the current Grays Harbor County offenses. The trial court in this c
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Geoffrey K. Auyeung
Seattle, Washington, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering. Geoffrey K. Auyeung, age 47, of Newcastle, Washington, set up nine different entities that he used to accept proceeds from investors who thought they were investing in the oil and gas industry. The names of business entities that offered purported investments related to oil and gas were Sea Forest International LLC.; Apex Oil and Gas Trading LLC.; Navigator Energy Logisti
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Mitchell Jason Ranes a/k/a "Cricket"
Yakima, Washington, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Roshard Andrew Carty
Tacoma, Washington, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud. Roshard Andrew Carty, 34, first contacted the 73-year-old Vancouver, Washington victim in 2020. He posed as an employee of Publisherās Clearinghouse and claimed the victim won $22 million and a car in the lottery, but that she needed to pay taxes and fees to access her winnings. He convinced the victim that the FBI was recording the call and told her she was not to tell anyone about the big win.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Dylan Rex
Tacoma, Washington, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with seven counts of Wire Fraud; seven counts of Computer Fraud; one count of Possession of Child Pornography; and one count of Attempted Enticement of a Minor. Between July 2020 and March 2023, Dylan Rex, age 32, of La Center, Washington, defrauded over 170 victims of their private and intimate photos and videos stored in their Snapchat accounts. He would use false phone numbers and false email addresses that made
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Rogelio Pena
Tacoma, Washington, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distributing drugs. Rogelio Pena, 22, distributed large amounts of fentanyl pills. Rogelio Pena, 22, is one of thirteen people who was indicted in the case in May 2024. The 18-month wiretap investigation revealed that Pena was a trusted member of the conspiracy both for delivering drugs and for having access to the groupās stash house. At sentencing U.S. District Judge Kymberly K. Evanson said, āThis was
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Tawhnee Willow Colvin
Spokane, Washinngton, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with bank fraud. Tawhnee Willow Colvin, of Davenport, Washington, was convicted by a jury on all twenty-six counts charged following a trial in September 2025. As evidence presented at the trial established, Colvin was employed as Assistant Director of the Spokane Tribe of Indiansā Department of Health and Human Services and Division of Child and Family Services (DCFS). As part of her position as Assistant Direc
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Jacob Aubrey Littlebull
Yakima, Washington, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with assaulting a federal officer.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Talisa Manuella Munoz
Seattle, Washington, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with international kidnapping. Talisa Manuella Munoz, failed to return the boy to his father as required by the final parenting plan. She secretly flew to Panama after using false documents to get the child a passport. Munoz, was supposed to return the child to his father on September 8, 2025, following a weekend visitation. When the child was not returned, the father reported to law enforcement and the FBI o
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Steven E. Graham
Spokane, Washington, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with drug trafficking and firearm charges. In late November 2023, Steven E. Graham, age 40, of Wenatchee, Washington, was serving a term of community custody supervision from a prior state drug conviction. Members of the Columbia River Drug Task Force were investigating Graham not only for drug trafficking, but because Graham had an open warrant from the Washington State Department of Corrections due to one or mor
View VerdictState of Washington v. John Doe
Seattle, Washington, criminal defense lawyer represented John Doe, age 47, charged with shooting a woman in Seattleās ChinatownāInternational District.
View VerdictState of Washington v. Zachary C.Kelty
Spokane, Washington crimicriminal defense lawyer represented Zachary C. Kelty, age 38, was charged with raping and molesting a family member.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Kenneth H. Crause
Spokane, Washington criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Possession with Intent to Deliver 400 Grams or More of Fentanyl. The Spokane Police Department Special Investigations Unit had an active drug trafficking investigation into Kenneth H. Crause, age 55, who was already on federal supervision for a prior drug trafficking conviction. Based on that investigation officers obtained search warrants for his residence and vehicle. Those warrants were executed on October
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Tamara King, aka Tamara Waln
Seattle, Washington, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud and multiple counts of wire fraud, money laundering, and tax fraud. Between August 2009 and December 2013, Tamara Kind, aka Tamara Waln, 56, of Toledo, Ohio, previously resided in Bellevue and Kirkland, Washington, solicited investments in a real estate fund called Halcyon. Twenty-two victims, most of whom were Seattle residents, invested $2.25 million in the fund. Waln told investors their funds wo
View VerdictRandey Thompson v. Central Valley School District No. 365, et al.
Spokane, Washington, employment law lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on retaliation in violation of the First Amendment theory. Thompson was placed on paid administrative leave and subsequently transferred to a teaching position as a result of his posting on Facebook a comment about the Democratic National Convention that used epithets, slurs, and violent language.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Adan C. Hernandez-Mayoral
Seattle, Washington, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with committing a hate crime involving bodily injury and a dangerous weapon for his attack on a Black bus rider. On March 7, 2024, Hernandez-Mayoral, age 24, made derogatory comments about Black people while he was riding a King County Metro bus. When a Black woman on the bus looked to see who was making racist comments, he yelled at her not to look at him and made more comments, including referring to the woman a
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Dr. Eric Edward Haeger
Spokane, Washington criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with adulterating and misbranding medical devices with the intent to defraud or mislead. In June 2021, Philips Respironics initiated a recall for certain CPAP and BiPAP devices due to potential health risks associated with the foam used in the devices for sound abatement. The potential health risks identified at the time included inflammatory response, asthma, nausea or vomiting, and toxic or cancer-causing effect
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Mohammed Zafaranchi, aka āMikeā
Seattle, Washington, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with operating a web of boiler-room-type call centers that defrauded 1,000 distressed homeowners facing foreclosure. Mohammed Zafaranchi, 43, aka āMikeā was convicted following a week-long trial of all twelve federal charges he faced: conspiracy to commit wire fraud, five counts of wire fraud, five counts of money laundering, and obstruction of justice. Zafaranchiās fraud scheme involved purchasing data
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Anthony Raymond Dodd, et al.
Tacoma, Washington, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with drug trafficking and firearms violations. The longest sentence, ten years, was imposed on Anthony Raymond Dodd, 36, of Seattle. Dodd was convicted of possession of fentanyl with intent to distribute and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime on July 25, 2025 following a three-day trial. At the sentencing hearing on October 27, 2025, U.S. District Judge John H. Chun noted that the
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Andrew Pete Serrano
Yakima, Washington, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Accessory After the Fact for his role in the 2018 murder of Rosenda Strong and to being a Felon in Possession of a Firearm in a separate matter from 2019. Jedidah Iesha Moreno shot and killed Rosenda Strong on or about October 5, 2018, following an argument at a residence, known as the House of Souls in Wapato, Washington. Following the murder, Moreno asked for help disposing of Strongās body. Zack and Jama
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Jonathan Leslie Allen, AKA Johnathan Allen, AKA Ghost
Spokane, Washington, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm. The Defendant claimed that the government commit grand jury abuse by offering perjured testimony. Allen alleges that testimony from an undercover agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) was false because Allen did not āmeetā with agents or āprovideā a handgun for sale. However, Allen did āmeetā with the agents by arriving
View VerdictState of Washington v. Christian Y. Adame-Ibarra
Wenatchee, Washington criminal defense lawyer presents the Defendant charged with second-degree burglary.
View VerdictState of Washington v. Two Brothers
Seattle, Washington, criminal defense lawyers represent two bothers accused of killing a man for stealing their father's gun. The shooter told police he shot the victim after chasing him down in the mall parking lot and that he was afraid the victim might hurt his brother.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Johnathan Leslie Allen, AKA Lohnathan Allen, AKA Ghost
Spokane, Washington criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession with intend to distribute meth and felony possession of a firearm.<br> <br> Facebook records (1) were admissible under Fed. R. Evid. 404(b) to support the government's theory on identity; and (2) complied with Fed. R. Evid. 403, where the records were relevant in tying Allen to his crimes, unfairly prejudicial references were redacted, and duplicative exhibits were excluded.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Saul Juan Cruz
Spokane, Washington, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribution.
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