Newport News, Virginia criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with misuse of a Social Security number, loan fraud, and identity theft.

According to court documents, Shaneca Moseley, 39, engaged in an identity takeover of C.J., a New Jersey resident. Between 2018 and 2020, Moseley impersonated C.J. by possessing and using a forged driver’s license containing C.J.’s personal... More...    $0 (09-19-2022 - VA)

Newport News, Virginia criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiring to defraud Navy Federal Credit Union and its members out of money and property.

From approximately April to August 2021, Samari Smith, 20, conspired with at least four other people to commit credit union fraud by convincing account holders to withdraw and turnover funds to them under false pretenses. Smit... More...    $0 (09-13-2022 - va)

Abingdon, Virginia criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with misbranding a drug and trafficking anabolic steroids.

John F. Cochcroft, 37, of Lexington, South Carolina, pleaded guilty on May 25, to one count of introduction of a new drug into interstate commerce with the intent to defraud and mislead and one count of manufacturing and possessing with the intent to distribute and d... More...    $0 (08-31-2022 - VA)

Abingdon, Virginia criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with manufacturing and shipping unapproved drugs and anabolic steroids.

John F. Cochcroft, 37, of Lexington, South Carolina, pleaded guilty on May 25, to one count of introduction of a new drug into interstate commerce with the intent to defraud and mislead and one count of manufacturing and possessing with the intent to di... More...    $0 (08-29-2022 - VA)

Chesapeake and Virginia Beach lawyers represented Defendant landlords were accused of violating they Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) .

Two Virginia landlords have agreed to pay $225,000 to resolve allegations that they violated the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) by obtaining unlawful court judgments against military tenants at the Hideaway at Greenbrier Luxury Apartment Hom... More...    $0 (08-08-2022 - VA)

Alexandria, Virginia criminal defense lawyers represented defendants charged with conspiracy to distribute drugs and other felonies.

A federal jury convicted four defendants on numerous charges relating to a murder, a violent gang enterprise, and a drug trafficking conspiracy operating in Virginia, California, and several other states.

According to court records and evidence pres... More...    $0 (05-06-2022 - VA)

Alexandria, Virginia criminal defense lawyers represented Defendant charged with cybercriminal crimes.

The U.S. Department of Justice today announced the seizure of the RaidForums website, a popular marketplace for cybercriminals to buy and sell hacked data, and unsealed criminal charges against RaidForums’ founder and chief administrator, Diogo Santos Coelho, 21, of Portugal. Coelho wa... More...    $0 (04-12-2022 - VA)

Norfolk, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with bank fraud.

Denis Monsibaez Diaz, 38, and other co-conspirators, all of whom are Cuban nationals, placed skimming devices on gas pumps located in Northampton County. The skimming devices were capable of recording the credit and debit bank card numbers, along with the PINs, of the customers that used their cards a... More...    $0 (03-14-2022 - VA)

Roanoke, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with ATM skimming conspiracy.

Between December 2018 and May 2019, Marious Catalui, age 47, and others worked together to obtain personal identifying information, including debit and credit card numbers and PINs from bank customers without lawful authority and used that data to make unauthorized cash withdrawals from t... More...    $0 (03-14-2022 - VA)

Richmond, Virginia consumer law lawyer represented Plaintiffs, who sued Defendants on Credit Repair Organization Act violation claiming to have suffered more than $5 million in injuries and/or damages as a direct result of an their violation of 15 U.S.C. 45, which provides:

(a) Declaration of unlawfulness; power to prohibit unfair practices; inapplicability to foreign trade

(1) U... More...    $0 (10-21-2019 - VA)

Richmond, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy, fraud, identity theft, and failure to appear.

According to court documents, Troy McFarland, 27, conspired with another man to repeatedly commit credit card fraud at the expense of more than a dozen identity theft victims and multiple financial institutions. McFarland and his co-conspirator used cred... More...    $0 (12-16-2021 - VA)

Norfolk, VA: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with trafficking drugs and guns.

Shon E. Melton, 32, of Portsmouth, was attributed with trafficking 19 firearms, including a concealable short barrel shotgun, assault rifles, and stolen guns, one of which was a Ruger with a scope and laser modification. Firearms trafficked by Melton include stolen guns connected to burglar... More...    $0 (10-12-2021 - VA)

Norfolk, VA: Criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged counterfeiting fraudulent coupons.

“These two defendants have been sentenced and held accountable for operating one of the largest coupon fraud schemes ever discovered in the United States, resulting in over $31 million in losses to victims across the country,â€� said Raj Parekh, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern Dist... More...    $0 (09-16-2021 - VA)

Newport News, VA: Wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in connection with a scheme to defraud veterans criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Rita Copeland, age 59.

Defendant, from Portsmouth, Virginia operated an entity known as “Veteran Services of the Commonwealth.â€� From 2016 through 2020, Copeland purported to provide caregiving, contracting, and rental assistance ser... More...    $0 (09-03-2021 - VA)