North Carolina Verdicts & Court Cases
2,352 verdicts, settlements, and court decisions from North Carolina.
United States of America v. Cameron Curry
Charlotte, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with interstate communication with intent to extort, and causing an act to be done and aiding and abetting the same in violation for 18 U.S.C. 875(d) and 2. Reported by: Kent Morlan Cameron Curry, 27, was contr
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Adedayo Fateru, Lisa Farrow, William Atwater, and Victoria Stone
Greensboro, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1956(h). Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation and the United States Postal Inspection Services (“USPIS”) investigated Adedayo
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Sharon Lynn Jones
Raleigh, North Carolina, , criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distributing fifty (50) grams or more of methamphetamine in violation of 18 U.S.C. 846. Reported by: Kent Morlan In May 20125, the DEA and Duplin County Sheriff’s Office identified Jones as a major meth
View VerdictUnited States of America v. James Nadel Taylor
Raleigh, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with: Conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute fifty (50) grams or more of methamphetamine. Possess with the intent to distribute fifty (50) grams or more of methamphetamine; and aiding
View VerdictState of North Carolina v. Elizabeth Snowman
Mooresville, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant accused for using Flock license plate readers to track her boyfiend's ex-wife. Reported by Kent Morlan Mooresville Police Department officer Elizabeth Snowman, age 36, was charged with accessing police department co
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Terry Detroit Page
Charlotte North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distributing methamphetamine. Digested by Kent Morlan Law enforcement initiated an investigation into Terry Detroit Page, 54, of Pineville, N.C., for drug trafficking in and around Charlotte. Using a confi
View VerdictUnited State of America v. LS Cable and System USA, Inc.
Raleigh, North Carolina Department of Justice lawyer represented the United States which sued the Defendant on a False Claims Act theory. Reported by Kent Morlan LS Cable & System USA, Inc. knowingly misrepresented the number of its employees and affiliated personnel and unlawfully sought and
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Kerby Pata
New Bern, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute more than 11 pounds of cocaine and conspiracy to possess with the intent to sell more than 50 grams of meth. Reported by: Kent Morlan In April 2022, the Virginia State Police caugh
View VerdictK. Lee Builders v. Thomas Scott Barnes
Henderson, North Carolina, civil litigation lawyers represented the parties in a beach of contract action. Reported by Kent Morlan Defendant entered a construction contract with plaintiff, a licensed general contractor. The contract was executed and signed by the parties on or around 1 August
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Jessica Latoya Staten
Raleigh, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with aiding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns. Reported by Kent Morlan Jessica Latoya Staten, 41, engaged in a scheme to prepare and file hundreds of false and fraudulent federal income tax r
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Nejlai Mitchell, et al.
Wilmington, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiring to defraud the United States and with adding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns. Nejlai Mitchell owned and operated a tax return preparation business out of Lumberton, North Ca
View VerdictUnited States of America v. James Shuford Price, III
Wilmington, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with paying illegal kickbacks for referrals to his California-based lab and filing a false federal tax return. Reported by Kent Morlan James Shuford Price, III, 59, owned and operated Golden Star Labs (GSL),
View VerdictUnited States ex rel. GHGH2, Inc. v. Vsoft Technologies Corporation
Charlotte, North Carolina civil litigation lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendant on behalf of the United States on a qui tam theory. Reported by Kent Morlan GNGH2 Inc. sued Vsoft Corporation claiming that it misrepresented that it was a small business with less than 300 emplo
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Denis Joesph Bouchard
Raleigh, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with false claim of citizenship in order to vote. Reported by Kent Morlan Denis Bouchard, 70, falsely claimed to be a United States citizen when he voted, including registering to vote in the 2024 presidential e
View VerdictState of North Carolina v. John Phillip McPherson III
Whiteville, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged obtaining property by false pretenses and three counts of attempted obtaining property by false pretenses. Reported by Kent Morlan John Phillip McPherson III, 41, owned and operated North State Armory on South
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Homer Allen Faison, III
Raleigh, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with drug trafficking meth. By Kent Morlan Homer Faison didn’t just sell drugs; he built a pipeline of poison stretching across this country directly into the heart of the Eastern District of North Carolina.
View VerdictState of North Carolina v. Malasia Brianna Coleman
Nashville, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with failure to properly store a firearm under North Carolina law, a Class 1 misdemeanor. Malasia Brianna Coleman's son got on a bus taking students to M.B. Hubbard Elementary School in Battleboro carrying a gun.
View VerdictState of North Carolina v. Dylan Warbritton
Jacksonville, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represents the defendant charged with communicating threats and cyberstalking. Dylan Warbritton, age 23, accused of sending threatening text messages to the victim, including messages that threatened physical harm. * * * North Carolina,
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Kenta Montrice Wright
Charlotte, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distribution of methampletamine.
View VerdictState of North Carolina v. Peter Alphonso Blake
Smithfield, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with forceable rape, first-degree kidnapping, first-degree burglary and involuntary sexual servitude. Peter Alphonso Blake, age 33, is a former police officer, is accused of breaking into a home on April 8 with
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Timarcus Lavonnte Britt
Raleigh, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with interference with commerce by robbery; and aiding and abetting, brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence. Three individuals including Timarcus Lavonnte Britt, 29, Jaliek Grant, and a
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Jennifer Fox and Michael Isaac Robinson
Asheville, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distributing drugs. Beginning in July 2022, law enforcement began investigating Jennifer Fox and Michael Isaac Robinson’s drug trafficking activities in and around Asheville. Investigators learned that the
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Jeremy Hinton
Wilmington, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering. The Raleigh Police Department (RPD) and ATF conducted two controlled purchases of fentanyl from Inmate Hinton. During the second controlled purchase, Inmate Hinton al
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Erica McMillian
New Bern, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud. Erica McMillian, a Robeson County woman, submitted a fraudulent EIDL loan application for a fictitious business located in Robeson County. To obtain the $150,000 loan, McMilli
View VerdictUnited 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 me
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 rom
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. Us
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-degr
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
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
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 f
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 contro
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 agen
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
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 As
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
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 sent
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 outsi
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 Ed
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
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 conditio
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 respon
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
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.
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
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 Fayettevill
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 other
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