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United States of America v. Pry’Shayn Mosley

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexual exploitation of children and possession of child pornography. Pry’Shayn Mosley, 21, from Fort Dodge, Iowa, admitted that between May 2022 and October 2022 he enticed two minors under the age of 18 to engage in sexually explicit conduct in order to produce visual depictions of such conduct. Mosley further admitted to possessing and distributing this child pornography to other persons, including childre

United States of America v. Ricardo Wiley Steward

Davenport, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with drug possession with intent to distribute. In February 2025, Ricardo Wiley Steward, 46, a felon, illegally possessed a loaded, stolen pistol, at a residence in Coralville. Additionally, Steward sold marijuana from 2024 to 2025 in the Iowa City area. As a felon, Steward was prohibited from possessing a firearm. Furthermore, Steward has numerous convictions related to violence, including assaults. On October 28,

United States of America v. Wenona Oropeza

Woodbury, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute controlled substance. A number of times over one year in 2024-2025, Wenona Oropeza, 48, from Omaha, Nebraska, would have other persons drive her from Omaha, Nebraska to Sioux Falls, South Dakota with several ounces of methamphetamine to distribute in Sioux Falls where she could double and triple her profits selling the methamphetamine. On March 2, 2025, a vehicle Oropeza was a passenger i

Monica Perkins v. City of Des Mmonies, et al.

Des Moines, Iowa, personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a civil rights violation theory. When Deputy Tart fired, Perkins was approximately sixty to seventy-five feet away from him and standing on the road outside her daughter’s vehicle. As Perkins describes the situation, she was verbally confronting another driver, walking back and forth between her daughter’s vehicle and the other driver’s vehicle. She claims she was returning to her daughter’s vehicle but then turne

United States of America v. Joseph Lee Rhodes

Davenport, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of child pornography. Joseph Lee Rhodes, Jr., 41, of Muscatine County, was detained pending trial today in connection with an indictment charging him with five counts of transportation of child pornography. On January 14, 2026, Rhodes made his initial appearance. Following the March 2, 2026, detention hearing, a United States Magistrate Judge ordered Rhodes to remain detained pending trial. If con

Rosemary Loper v. Southeast Iowa Regional Medical Center

Des Moines, Iowa, personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a medical malpractice claim. 147.140 Expert witness — certificate of merit affidavit. 1. a. In any action for personal injury or wrongful death against a health care provider basedupontheallegednegligenceinthepracticeofthatprofessionoroccupationorinpatient care, which includes a cause of action for which expert testimony is necessary to establish a prima facie case, the plaintiff shall, prior to the commencement of di

State of Iowa v. Devon Jackson

Des Moines, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexually abusing a teenager. Devon Jackson, 23, is charged with one count of third-degree sex abuse.

State of Iowa v. Devon Jackson

Des Moines, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexually abused a minor multiple times in 2025.

United States of America v. Cleveland Stephens, a/k/a “Schmitty”

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute controlled substances. Cleveland Stephens, a/k/a “Schmitty,” age 63, from Cedar Rapids, sold pounds of methamphetamine to multiple people. In October 2022, he was in a car that was stopped in Davenport, Iowa. Law enforcement officers searched the car and found cocaine base, cocaine, fentanyl, and marijuana. In June 2024, law enforcement officers searched Stephens’s house and c

United States of America v. Michael Clark

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of firearms by a prohibited person. Clark applied for a weapons permit in 2018, and a sheriff’s office informed him that he was prohibited from possessing guns. In June 2024, while officers were in Clark’s residence to arrest him on a warrant, an officer saw ammunition. Officers subsequently searched Clark’s home and found six guns. The investigation showed that the source for at least thre

United States of America v. Shawn Zak

Sioux City, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute controlled substance and unlawful transportation of a firearm. Shawn Zak, 32, from Carroll, Iowa, admitted that from June 2025 through September 2025, he and others conspired to distribute more than 1500 grams of methamphetamine in the Carroll, Iowa, area. On September 11, 2025, Zak was approached by law enforcement based on an active warrant for his arrest. At the time Zak provided a f

United States of America v. Bryan Keith Rainey, Jr.

Des Moines, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with unlawful transportation of firearms. Bryan Keith Rainey, Jr., 20, and two co-conspirators fired at least 36 rounds of ammunition at a Des Moines residence occupied by two children and their mother on December 16, 2024. At least 11 rounds hit the house. No one was injured. Three days later, officers located Rainey in a parking lot and attempted to arrest him. Rainey ran from the police. Once captured, law enfo

State of Iowa v. Sie Jones

Des Moines, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with willful injury causing serious injury, assault on a police officer, third-degree criminal mischief, and interference with Official Acts. Sie Jones, age 25, was accused of assault and battering a 61-year-old man and polic officers.

Waterloo, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with making a false statement during purchase of firearm. Prescott bought three handguns from a licensed firearms dealer in Cedar Falls between March and August 2024. Prescott lied on forms during these purchases, claiming that she was the actual buyer of the guns. The guns were for Prescott’s fourteen-year-old grandson, who was not old enough to purchase or possess firearms. All three guns were recovered by law en

United States of America v. Robert J. Funderman

Sioux City, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with one count of distribution of child pornography. Robert J. Fundermann, 50, from Anthon, Iowa, admitted that from about April 2023 through April 2025, he distributed and attempted to distribute visual depictions of child pornography. Evidence further showed that Fundermann was grooming a 17-year-old in order to obtain images and videos of the minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct. A forensic review of Funde

United States of America v. Lashawn Leroy Williams, Jr.

Davenport, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with making a false statement during the purchasing of a firearm and possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance. Lashawn Leroy Williams, Jr., 24, purchased at least 21 firearms between September 2022 through December 2024 and falsely claimed he was not a drug user and provided a false address. Seven of the guns Williams purchased have been recovered by law enforcement, including during drug and homicid

United States of America v. Jewahn Lequez Walton and Preston Manning McDowell Jr.

Davenport, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm and unlawful transport of firearms. Jewahn Lequez Walton, 28, and Preston Manning McDowell Jr., 26, each tossed loaded firearms from a vehicle driven by Walton while attempting to elude law enforcement in June 2024. In July 2024, McDowell possessed another firearm in Davenport. McDowell is prohibited from possessing firearms due to multiple prior felony convictions, incl

State of Iowa v. Lynn Melvin

Des Moines, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the defendant charged with second-degree sexual abuse.

United States of America v. Starr Necole Ledford

Sioux City, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute drugs.

United States of America v. Bryce White

Sioux City, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexual exploitation of children and possession of pornography. Bryce White, 42, from Dow City, Iowa, admitted that between August 1, 2023, and August 2024, he coerced minor females into sending him depictions of themselves engaged in sexually explicit conduct. White used Snapchat to pose as a minor and solicited and received nude images and videos of minor females from across the United States and overseas. In

United States of America v. Rusty Todd Johsnon

Des Moines, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with false use of a social security number and aggravated identity theft. Rusty Todd Johnston, 46, was convicted of a felony drug offense in Brooks County, Texas in 2005. He was sentenced to a suspended prison sentence with community supervision. Within months, Johnston absconded from his Texas probation and Texas authorities issued an arrest warrant. By approximately 2008, Johnston stopped using his real name, date of

United States of America v. Ian Roberts

Des Moines, Iowa, criminal defense lawyers Alfredo Parrish, Alexander Smith, Ben Bergmann, and Brandon Brown represented the Defendant charged with felony possession of a firearm. A federal grand jury indicted Ian Roberts on the charge of illegal alien in possession of a firearm. He was also charged with false statement for employment after claiming he was a U.S. citizen on a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Employment Verification Form I-9 as part of his employment with the Des Moin

United States of America v. Marshawn Ladarius Jeffries

Cedar Rapids, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with unlawful transportation of a firearm.

United States of America v. Anthony Isiah Pennell

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with unlawful transportation of firearms. Information from the sentencing hearing showed that, on October 9, 2024, in a mall parking lot in Cedar Rapids, Anthony Isiah Pennell fired a gun. Following an argument between an individual who was with Pennell and another person, Pennell grabbed a gun out of a purse belonging to a woman who he was also with, and he began shooting at the other person. Pennell’s gunfire

United States of America v. Jared Stuart Stratton

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute drugs.

United States of America v. Brian Thomas Oakleaf

Sioux City, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with engaging in activities involving or containing child pornography. Evidence at the plea and sentencing hearings showed that, from March 1, 2022, through July 29, 2024, Brian Thomas Oakleaf received, distributed, and possessed child pornography, including depictions involving prepubescent minors, on two separate cell phones. In May 2024, law enforcement officers were investigating an online filesharing program and

United States of America v. Alan Hernandez Lagunas

Davenport, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with illegal reentry of a deported alien.

United States of America v. Kurt Williams

Des Moines, Iowa, pro se defendant accused of sexually harassed female tenants in violation of the Fair Housing Act. In January 2025, the Government alleged that for more than two decades, property manager Kurt Williams sexually harassed female tenants at various rental dwellings throughout Davenport. The suit alleges that Williams’ conduct included making unwelcome sexual comments and sexual advances to female tenants, exposing his genitals to female tenants, requesting sex or sex acts fro

United States of America v. Taxavier Ford

Sioux City, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with unlawful transportation of firearms. Taxavier Ford, 29, from Alta, Iowa, was charged one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. Ford was previously convicted of possession of a narcotic drug, in the State of Indiana in 2017, and possession of marijuana, with intent to deliver and possession of a firearm by a felon, in the Iowa District Court for Buena Vista County in 2021. Both of these convictions

United States of America v. Victor Villarreal

Sioux City, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with trafficking fentanyl and illegally possessing firearms. Jason S. Thompson, 50, was found guilty of one count each of possessing fentanyl with the intent to distribute, possessing firearms in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime, and being a felon in possession of firearms. In the early morning hours of Aug. 30, 2024, officers with the Nixa, Mo., Police Department contacted Thompson, who was camping in a mi

United States of America v. Steven Michael Conroy

Dubuque, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with felony possession of a firearm and making interstate communication of threats.

Debora Fisk v. Athene Annuity and Life Company

Des Moines, Iowa, consumer law lawyers represented the Plaintiff on a unfair and deceptive practices act theory . 15 U.S. Code § 45, Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Act, declares that unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in commerce are unlawful and gives the FTC power to prevent them, covering antitrust violations and consumer protection, allowing for cease and desist orders, civil penalties for knowing violations, and other relief to prot

United States of America v. Adolfo Contreras Galan

Des Moines, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with reentry of a deported alien.

State of Iowa v. Brandon Lyle High Pipe and Luciano Eliseo Sanchez

Rock Rapids, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represent the Defendants charged with burglary and vandalism. Brandon Lyle High Pipe, age 39, and Luciano Eliseo Sanchez, age 18, were accused o breaking into the Lyon County, Iowa Courthouse and valdalizing the interior.

United States of America v. Desmond Collins

Sioux City, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with two counts of distribution of a controlled substance. Desmond Collins, age 34, from Fort Dodge, Iowa, admitted that in October 2024, he distributed a total of approximately three ounces of methamphetamine to a person cooperating with law enforcement in Fort Dodge, Iowa. At the time of the distribution, Collins was on state probation for three separate crimes: assault with a dangerous weapon and criminal mischie

United States of America v. Brandon Mitchell

Sioux City, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm. Brandon Mitchell, 29, from Mason City, Iowa, was previously convicted twice for domestic abuse assault in the Iowa District Court for Cerro Gordo County. The convictions prevented Mitchell from legally possessing firearms. Mitchell had two prior convictions for misdemeanor domestic violence and was an unlawful user of marijuana. Evidence further showe

United States of America v. Kenneth Wayne Brown

Sioux City, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with one count of possession of child pornography. From early May 2023, through April 3, 2024, Kenneth Brown, 60, from Badger, Iowa, received and possessed child pornography. A CyberTip to law enforcement revealed 32 files of child pornography had been uploaded to the internet from Brown’s cell phone. Brown was a volunteer firefighter with Badger Fire and Rescue. During a forensic examination of Brown’s phone,

United States of America v. Louis Grant Peterson

Des Moines, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with making false declarations in a bankruptcy proceeding. Louis Grant Peterson, also known as “Chip Peterson,” 61, was the former owner of Legacy Siding and Windows, an exterior construction company based in Ankeny. While operating that company, Peterson engaged in a pattern of taking customer deposits—hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth—and not completing work as promised. Peterson later admitted to t

United States of America v. Melvin Boone

Sioux City, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with one count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and one count of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine within 1,000 feet of a protected location. Melvin Boone, age 46, from Fort Dodge, Iowa, admitted that between October 2023, and March 2025, he and others conspired to distribute over 5 pounds of methamphetamine in the Fort Dodge area. Evidence also showed that in July 2024, Boone distribute

United States of America v. Zachary James Flaherty

Des Moines, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with one count of wire fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1343, and separately to one count of criminal contempt, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 401(3).. Flaherty worked as an insurance producer for 17 years and throughout all 17 years, Flaherty stole money from over 30 victims. Through his fraudulent scheme, Flaherty stole at least $3.1 million from his victims. Flaherty received checks from the victims, repres

United States of America v. Steven Earl

Council Bluffs, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with o one count of transportation of a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity and one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm

Sandra K. Mormann, et al. v. City of Manchester, Iowa and James Louis Wessels

Manchester, Iowa personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiffs who sued on a assault and battery theory.<br> <br> In the afternoon of December 10, 2020, Iowa State Trooper Eric Payne was driving his marked squad car eastbound on Highway 20 near Manchester. Payne encountered a motorcycle speeding in the opposite direction at ninety-nine miles per hour; the posted speed limit was sixty-five miles per hour. Changing course, Payne approached the motorcycle from behind and activated his cruiser-

State of Iowa v. Pat Grant Kepner

Boone, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with indecent exposure.<br> <br> In spring 2022, two women-K.W. and E.P.-made two separate reports to law enforcement. Each woman reported that a man whom she did not know had just exposed himself to her in a retail parking lot. This case is about those women's experiences, the investigations and trial that followed, and (especially) the women's identifications of Pat Kepner as the man they saw in the parking lots. We start wi

State of Iowa v. Tywrone Morrow

Des Moines, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with first-degree murder and assault on a police officer.<br> Tywone Morrow, age 31, was accused for shooting and killing man at 3600 Kennedy Drive in Des Moines.

State of Iowa v. Robert Allen Davis

Logan, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with first-degree muder.<br> <br> Robert Allen Davis, 61, of Council Bluffs, was accused for killing Barbara Lenz disappeared in Harrison County more than 36 years ago.

United States of America v. Conrad Lyons, Jr.

Council Bluffs, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with felony possession of a firearm.

United States of America v. Anthony Dwaynbe Clay, a/k/a Oak

Davenport, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant whose supervised release was revoke.

United States of America v. Tyree Robert Williams

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with one count of distribution of fentanyl in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(C). <br> <br>

United States of America v. Adrien Cole

Des Moines, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sex trafficking.<br> <br> In 2014, Cole was sentenced to 120 months' imprisonment and 10 years of supervised release following his conviction for sex-trafficking in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1591(a)(1), (b)(2) (the sex-trafficking case). His term of supervised release started in 2021. During that period, Cole feigned a medical condition to avoid sex offender treatment and drug testing. He subsequently pleade

United States of America v. Benjamin Tyler Gentry

Des Moines, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with three counts of receipt and possession of child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(2), (b)(1), (a)(5)(B), and (b)(2), and with being a felon in possession of a firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2)<br> <br> In October 2021, a Department of Homeland Security Special Agent downloaded prepubescent child pornography videos that were traced to a device with an IP address at