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United States of America v. Fortunato Beltran
Wilmington, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to sell methamphetamine and fentanyl and selling both. Fortunato Beltran, 45, was accused of operating a drug trafficking organization that ship tens pounds and hundreds pounds of fentanyl and methamphetamine to Eastern North Carolina. Inmate Beltran orchestrated bulk shipments of methamphetamine and fentanyl from California and Mexico into Eastern North Carolina for distribution. Agents with
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Saheed Sunday Owolabi
Wilmington, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Saheed Sunday Owolabi, a Nigerian national, pretended to be a woman to build online relationships with men in the United States, a scheme known as a romance scam. He and his co-conspirators used these fake relationships to cheat victims into sending money and personal information. Owolabi and others used bank accounts provided by the victims to laund
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Roderick Michael Bates
Raleigh, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempted wire and identity fraud. Roderick Michael Bates, 55, used stolen identities with fake driver’s licenses to secure financing for farm machinery and equipment from a local Sampson County business. Using these identities, he fraudulently purchased high-value items totaling more than $65,000, including a zero-turn mower, an Evolution D5 Ranger golf cart, and 12-foot and 16-foot dump trailers. He th
View VerdictState of North Carolina v. Quintin Deandre Hairston
Greenville, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with felony conspiracy to commit robbery with a dangerous weapon; two counts of robbery with a dangerous weapon; assault with a deadly weapon with the intent to kill inflicting serious injury; attempted first-degree murder; and first-degree burglary. In July 2020, defendant, Zyquez McMillan, Micah Mims, and Reginald Miller planned to rob their acquaintance, Colin Shouse, after being told that Colin kept fi
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Andre Whitehurst
Charlotte, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with theft of mail by a postal employee and conspiracy to commit bank fraud. From April 2022 to September 2024, Andre Whitehurst, 34, of Charlotte, conspired with Rashad Lowery, Aaron Grice, and others to execute a bank fraud scheme involving stolen mail. Whitehurst used his position as a U.S. Postal Service clerk to steal incoming and outgoing checks from the mail. Whitehurst then sold the stolen checks to G
View VerdictState of North Carolina v. Herman Anthony Maynor
Nashville, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury, possession of a firearm by a felon, and attaining the states of a habitual felon. On 6 February 2023, Defendant was indicted for assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury, discharging a firearm within city limits in violation of a city ordinance, and possession of a firearm by a felon. The State voluntarily dismissed
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Tracey Hernandez
Greensboro, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with aiding and assisting the filing of a false tax return. Aents with the Internal Revenue Service – Criminal Investigation Division (“IRS-CI”) began investigating Tracey Hernandez, 39, for preparing and filing IRS false income tax returns for her clients. Hernandez acted as a “ghost preparer,” meaning she did not sign her name on the returns she prepared for clients. IRS data shows that Hernandez
View VerdictState of North Carolina v. Michael Aaron McDuffie
Ashevboro, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with trafficking in heroin by possession. On 6 December 2021, a Randolph County grand jury indicted defendant on one count each of trafficking opium or heroin, maintaining a vehicle for keeping or selling controlled substances, and possession with intent to manufacture, sell, or deliver heroin.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Rick Derrell McIntyre
Raleigh, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to sell and possess with intent to sell 50 grams or more of methamphetamine and selling of 50 grams or more of meth. The Fayetteville Police Department (FPD), the FBI, and other law enforcement agencies identified Inmate Rick Derrell McIntyre as the head of a large-scale drug trafficking organization. The investigation established that Inmate McIntyre acted as one of the most high-volume drug de
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Ricky McMillian, Erica McMillian, Dwayne McMillian and Darian McMillian
Wilmington, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud. A Robeson County Deputy Sheriff Ricky McMillian, his wife, and two adult sons engaged in a scheme to defraud the Small Business Administration’s Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) and Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and by submitting false loan applications which resulted in the disbursement of $542,288 in loan proceeds pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire
View VerdictState of North Carolina v. Deon Lee Muckelvene
Asheville, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury, a Class E felony. Deon Lee Muckelvene, 41, accused of stabbing that left a man with a knife protruding from his head in downtown Asheville in 2025.
View VerdictState of South Carolina v. Michael Solomon Brocenos, Tyler Byrne Hackett Kelly, and Emily Kathryn Murphy
Asheville, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with ethnic intimidation. Michael Solomon Brocenos, 34, Tyler Byrne Hackett Kelly, 33, and Emily Kathryn Murphy, 38, allegedly assaulted a group of attendees live-streaming the seminar on June 29, 2024, titled "Strategic Lessons from the Palestinian Resistance," hosted by the Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair.
View VerdictState of North Carolina v. Mikah Brondyke
Raleigh, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with sex crimes against children. Former Wake County school teacher and youth pastor accused of committing sex crimes against children.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Fredy Mauricio Buruca, a/k/a “Piranha,” “Machete,” and “Insoportable” and Santos Guillermo Ramirez Mancia, a/k/a “Azazel,” “Timido,” and “Johnny”
Charlotte, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant's charged with conspiracy to conduct affairs of an enterprise through a pattern of racketeering activities. Fredy Mauricio Buruca, a/k/a “Piranha,” “Machete,” and “Insoportable,” 27, of El Salvador, was sentenced to 30 years in prison followed by three years of supervised release. He was also ordered to register as a sex offender. Buruca pleaded guilty to RICO conspiracy and kidnapping a minor. Santos Gu
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Rodney Jamine Moore, Jr.
Greensboro, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with felony possession of a firearm. On April 29, 2024, just before noon, a man, later identified as Rodney Jamine Moore, Jr., age 60 of High Point, North Carolina, was reported to be randomly firing a gun outside of High Point Housing Authority’s Astor Dowdy Tower. High Point Police Department officers responded and detained Moore who was found holding a loaded Ruger 9mm handgun. Officers noted that Moore
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Eugene Montale Jenkins
Raleigh, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possessing with intent to distribute forty (40) grams or more of a mixture and substance containing fentanyl and ANPP, an a quality of marijuana. Eugene Montale Jenkins, age 36, was a known drug dealer In Edgecombe County who had sold fentanyl, marijuana, cocaine, and crack in from his trap house for a while. In March 2023, Edgecombe County Sheriff’s Office (ECSO) launched an investigation into Jenkins
View VerdictUnited States of America v. David Ryan Winters
Raleigh, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with cyber-stalking, harassing, and threatening gay men on line int the Raleigh-Durham area. David Ryan Winters, age 40, became enraged at the gay community in Raleigh-Durham for perceived slights. Starting around 2016, Winters began stalking gay men online and in person, including by showing up at victims’ homes and sending them pictures of their residences. Winters would discover victims’ personal informa
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Augustine Perez Deanna Coleman
Winston--Salem, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with drug trafficking. Federal probation officers conducted warrantless searches of two residences based on their supervision of Augustine Perez, a federal supervisee subject to warrantless search conditions. Officers first searched Perez’s reported residence and then searched a separate home, owned by Perez and occupied by Deanna Coleman, based on the officers’ belief that Perez resided there as w
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Eugene Christopher Acuff
Statesville, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with mail fraud. Gene Christopher Acuff, 62, was employed as a senior manager by Company A, a large retailer with stores throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico. As part of his duties, Acuff was responsible for reviewing property tax assessments on Company A’s stores and retaining real estate appraisers and other professionals to evaluate tax assessments on company stores. Businesses that provide
View VerdictU.S. ex rel. Downs v. Insect Shield LLC, et al.
Charlotte, North Carolina, qui tam lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a False Claims Act violation theory. The United States filed its complaint-in-intervention in December 2023 alleging that Insect Shield LLC, located in North Carolina, and the Estate of Richard Lane, a co-founder and co-owner of Insect Shield, a subcontractor to multiple defense contractors who manufacture Army uniforms, violated the False Claims Act by falsifying test results regarding the application of permethr
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Isidro Arcenio Alvarado
Raleigh, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with naturalization fraud. Alvarado confessed to having knowingly made materially false statements under oath and penalty of perjury on his naturalization application and during a naturalization interview with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS). He answered “No” to the following questions “Were you EVER involved in any way with any of the following:…[f]orcing or trying to force someone to
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Aviel Gonzalez-Ruiz
Asheville, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with reentry of deported alien and with unlawful transport of a firearm.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Jeraldine Agnes Geldner
Asheville, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud. Jeraldine Agnes Geldner, 73, worked as a contracted bookkeeper for three small businesses. As part of her duties, Geldner was responsible for handling the businesses’ accounts payable, payroll, and filing of tax returns. From 2019 through 2024, Geldner engaged in a scheme to defraud and embezzle from the businesses, by making unauthorized wire transfers from the companies’ bank accounts
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Muwsay Ibn Ibrahim Tulu
Wilmington, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possessing fentanyl and cocaine while armed and with the intent to distribute the drugs, and felon in possession of a firearm. On July 13, 2023, military police found Muwsay Ibn Ibrahim Tulu, of Fayetteville, passed out behind the wheel of a running vehicle in the middle of the road on Fort Bragg with drugs and a loaded ghost gun with an extended magazine at his feet. Months later, agents executed a sea
View VerdictState of North Carolina v. Austin Thompson
Raleigh, North, Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with six counts of murder in the first-degree. Austin Thompson, age 15, of Raleigh accused of shooting six people, killing five of them in October 2022.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Wynn A.D. Charlebois
Charlotte, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with orchestrating a Ponzi scheme that caused millions of dollars in losses. from 2015 to 2022, Charlebois used companies he owned and controlled, including WC Private, Wilcox Hybrid, Damon Investments, and others, to perpetrate a multi-million-dollar fraudulent investment scheme. Charlebois used his past employment at a reputable hedge fund to con his victims into trusting him with their hard-earned savings,
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Sarah Wilson, aka Sarah Cannoy
Greensboro, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with bank embezzlement. Sarah Wilson, aka Sarah Cannoy, age 28, pleaded guilty on August 4, 2025, to three counts of embezzlement by a bank employee. Wilson was a teller at the Pilot Mountain branch of First Citizens Bank when, from December 2023 through May 2024, she stole $150,450 in cash from her teller drawer. To hide her theft, she entered numerous fraudulent transactions into the Bank’s computer
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Jonathan Tadeo-Neri,
Raleigh, North Carolina criminal defense lawyers James B. Polk represented the Defendant charged with possessing with intent to distribute a quantity of meth. An investigation began in January 2023, when a confidential source contacted DEA agents regarding a methamphetamine dealer in the Raleigh area. DEA identified the drug dealer as Jonathan Tadeo-Neri, a 31-year-old Mexican alien, and conducted a controlled purchase of methamphetamine from him. On January 9, 2023, Tadeo-Neri agreed to s
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Shawn Tobin Locklear, Jr.
New Bern, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyers Kelly Dagger and Paul Sun represented the Defendant charged with possession of a machine gun in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. After officers arrested Shawn Tobin Locklear, Jr., age 20, for armed robbery while using a gun, a state court judge released him in March 2022. A few months later in November 2022, while Locklear roamed free on bond despite his first gun crime, Robeson County Sheriff Deputies arrested him for murder and robb
View VerdictUnited States of America v. William Justin Lewis
Raleigh, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with charged with distribution of child pornography. Undercover agents with the FBI investigated online distributors and traders of CSAM when agents located a chat room where a user, later identified as William Justin Lewis, age 55, uploaded numerous disturbing images and videos of CSAM. Agents traced the IP address back to the Louisburg residence where Lewis lived. The FBI, with the assistance of the Frankli
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Jovonnte Lamhn Patterson v. Jermal Zamont Moye
Greensboro, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with felony possession of a firearms. On April 11, 2024, at approximately 5:15 p.m., officers responded to a report of someone suffering from a gunshot wound in the vicinity of Fayetteville Street and Linwood Avenue. When officers arrived, they did not see anyone suffering from a gunshot wound; however, they observed blood splatter on the ground and parking lot of the Eagle Food Mart and recovered approxim
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Joshua Sterling McClain
Raleigh, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Possess with intent to distribute forty (40) grams or more of a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of fentanyl, a quantity of a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of cocaine, and a quantity of a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine. Investigators began surveilling Joshua Stereling McClain, age 31, in January 2024 after observing suspe
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Scott Anthony Lewis
Wilmington, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with receipt of child sexual abuse material (CSAM). the Department of Homeland Security and the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office investigated Scott Anthony Lewis, 65. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) received a Cyber Tip from Dropbox, reporting that one of its users had uploaded child sexual abuse material to their platform. Law enforcement traced the IP address from that Dro
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Charles Lamont Gregory, III
New Bern, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with drug possession with intent to distribute and felony possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. Charles Lamont Gregory, III, age 36, of Elizabeth City, North Carolina, was driving a car with expired tags in the early morning hours of August 7, 2022. An Elizabeth City Police Officer on patrol spotted the car and stopped it. Gregory delayed stopping, making several turns, the last
View VerdictState of North Carolina v. Corey Thomas Powell
Greensboro, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with first degree murder. A.I. Google: North Carolina first-degree murder is the most serious homicide charge (a Class A felony), defined under G.S. § 14-17(a) as any killing that is willful, deliberate, and premeditated. A conviction results in a mandatory sentence of either life imprisonment without the possibility of parole or the death penalty. A killing is considered first-degree murder if it occu
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Gordon Ray Jones, Jr.
Greensboro, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant in a revocation of supervised release.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Marcus Jermaine McDaniel, a/k/a Pootie, a/k/a Knows
Greensboro, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant in a proceeding to revoke in supervised release.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Byron Clay Scott
Greensboro, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with five counts of interference with commerce by robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a).
View VerdictState of North Carolina v. Jacob Zazeski
Charlotte, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill serious injury and injury to personal property. The Defendant shot a man three times in a road rage incident.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Christian Sturdivant
Charlotte, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization. Christian Sturdivant, of Mint Hill, allegedly planned to use knives and hammers to execute a deadly New Year’s Eve attack at a grocery store and a fast food restaurant in support of the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) has been arrested and charged with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization,
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Christian Wolfe Daniels
Greensboro, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represent the Defendant charged with threatening the President and communicating threats using a means of interstate communication. The criminal complaint against Christian Wolfe DANIELS alleges two counts of making threats against the President on November 13 and 14, 2025, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 871(a), and one count of transmitting threats in interstate commerce on November 17, 2025, in violation of Title 1
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Kenneth Orlin Simmons
Raleigh, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with selling more than 50 grams of methamphetamine. In July 2022, Kenneth Orlin Simmons, Jr., age 36, sold over a kilogram of methamphetamine to a confidential informant in Nash County. The Nash County Sherriff’s Office along with the DEA later obtained a search warrant for Simmons residence. During that search, law enforcement seized 10 kilograms of methamphetamine, nearly 1,000 grams of marijuana, a stolen
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Yolanda Baker
Wilmington, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fraud. Yolanda Baker, age 51, defauded the North Carolina Department of Commerce, Division of Employment Security (NCDES) by submitting false pandemic unemployment benefits (UI) applications intended for more than $365,000 in federal benefits. From in or about May 2020 to June 2021, Yolanda Baker carried out a scheme to defraud NCDES UI program by submitting sixty-five fraudulent UI applications. Sh
View VerdictState of North Carolina v. Cheyenne D. Woods
Lumberton, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged withf first-degree murder, discharging a weapon into occupied property, robbery with a dangerous weapon, possession of a firearm by a felon, possession of a stolen firearm, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, robbery with a dangerous weapon, second-degree kidnapping, and malicious conduct of a prisoner by throwing, emitting or projecting bodily fluids. <p><img width="300" src="https://www.oxygen
View VerdictState of North Carolina v. Lorenzo Thomas Inman, Jr.
Mecklenburg, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with murder, assault on a female, and misdemeanor crime of domestic violence. Lorenzo Thomas Inman, Jr. accused for killing Frezja Baker, 31.
View VerdictState of North Carolina v. Corey Thomas Powell
Greensboro, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with first-degree murder. Corey Thomas Powell, age 26, accused of shooting and killing Travis Thompson, age 31.
View VerdictState of North Carolina v. Brayan Alvarez Ortiz
Raleigh, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with sexual assault. Brayan Alvarez Ortiz, age 28, accused of sexually assaulting patients who were under sedation at a Raleigh hospital.
View VerdictState of North Carolina v. Michael Loyde
Wilmington, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with murder. Michael Loyde, age 58, is accused of going to to a residence in the 600 block of Bladen Street, in Wilmington, and shot and killed his wife, Ebony Boyles.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Willie Lee Moore
Greensboro, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with theft of government property in connection with a scheme to steal money from a COVID-19 support program. Willie Lee More, a Montgomery County, North Carolina, Jamie Ewings, and Navonne Moore were associated with a not-for-profit community organization called Brutonville Concerned Citizens (“BCC”). BCC was subcontracted to provide support services, including the delivery of healthy food boxes and CO
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Christian Wolfe Daniels
Greensboro, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with threatening the President and communicating threats using a means of interstate communication. Christian Wolfe Daniels was charged with two counts of making threats against the President on November 13 and 14, 2025, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 871(a), and one count of transmitting threats in interstate commerce on November 17, 2025, in violation of Title 18, United States Code,
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