Alexandria, Virginia criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspired with others from Virginia, D.C., and Maryland, used a messaging app private group, which they generally referred to as "The DMV Board" or "The Board," as a place where they and their associates could discuss training fighting dogs, exchange videos about dogfighting, and arrange and coordinate dog fights, away fr... More...    $0 (11-15-2022 - VA)

Richmond, Virginia criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

Joshua Brian Romano, 40, owned various businesses that purchased, rehabilitated, and sold homes around Richmond. He funded this work via construction loans that were held in escrow in the trust account of a Chesterfield County law firm. The loans were earmarked for use by Romano only... More...    $0 (10-21-2022 - VA)

Alexandria, Virginia criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with engaging in illicit sexual conduct in foreign places.

Dean Edward Cheves, 63, was serving at the U.S. Embassy in the Philippines from 2017 to 2021, during which time he met multiple minors over the internet. From December 2020 to March 2021, Cheves communicated online with a then 15- to 16-year-old Philippine mino... More...    $0 (10-24-2022 - VA)

Alexandria, Virginia criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with armed robbery.

Rashawn Perkins, 28, wore a ski mask and brandished a firearm while committing four robberies in five weeks. The evidence established that Perkins robbed a 7-Eleven on December 30, 2021 and a Sunoco on January 19, 2022. The evidence further proved that on February 5, 2022, Perkins returned to both l... More...    $0 (09-23-2022 - VA)

Richmond, Virginia criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with defrauding the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) Program, the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), and the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program, using victims’ personal identifying information that she obtained from her state government employment.

In the first of three fraud schemes, from May 2020 to Augu... More...    $0 (09-13-2022 - 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)

Richmond, Virginia criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud to defraud the American Red Cross of disaster relief funds donated to the Red Cross by members of the American public for the benefit of the victims of Hurricane Harvey in 2017.

Muata Khalif, 55, conspired with other individuals to obtain the personal information of Texas residents, and to use that personal ... More...    $0 (08-22-2022 - VA)

Norfolk, Virginia criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with felony possession of a firearm.

Defendant has moved to suppress the evidence obtained by officers during their warrantless search of Defendant's car on September 23, 2021, and any evidence obtained as the result of Defendant's subsequent seizure, including a firearm seized from Defendant's person, and an extended magazin... More...    $0 (08-19-2022 - VA)

Norfolk, Virginia criminal law lawyer represented defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, opening a drug-involved premises, possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and marijuana, possession of firearms in relation to drug trafficking crimes, and being convicted felons in possession of firearms.

Vicente Andres, 61,... More...    $0 (08-03-2022 - VA)

Richmond, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with participating in a conspiracy to use the personal identifying information (PII) of Virginia prison inmates in order to fraudulently obtain COVID-19 pandemic-related unemployment benefits.

According to court documents, Veldreka L. Crockett, 31, of Hopewell, pleaded guilty today, the last of the three defendants ... More...    $0 (07-21-2022 - VA)

Newport News, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, and fentanyl, and discharging a firearm in relation to a drug trafficking crime, witness tampering, and obstruction of justice.

In August 2020, Nathan DeAlbert Mattocks, 37, a previously convicted felon, was arrested after the... More...    $0 (07-22-2022 - VA)

Newport News, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with conspiring with others to submit millions of dollars in fraudulent disaster-related loan applications in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic.

According to court documents, Nikki Mitchum, 44, participated in a conspiracy to obtain disaster-related loan benefits in the form of Small Business Administration ... More...    $0 (07-13-2022 - VA)

Abingdon, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with false representation of a medcaid matter in violation of 42 U.S.C. 1320.

Rakesh Reddy Kothuru, 49, pled guilty in January 2022 to one count of knowingly and willfully making false representations of material facts for payments under federal health care programs. The conviction means Kothuru is subject to mandat... More...    $0 (05-23-2022 - VA)

Richmond, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with illegal forced labor.

Zahida Aman, age 80, Mohammad Nauman Chaudhri, age 54 and Mohammed Rehan Chaudhri, age 58, were charged with conspiracy to commit forced labor, forced labor, and document servitude.

“The defendants exploited someone who should have been a loved family member to force her to wor... More...    $0 (05-13-2022 - 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 lawyer represented defendant charged with production and distribution of child porn.

during in 2020, Ashley Kolhoff, 22, produced sexually explicit images of the minor victim and posted them to a website dedicated to facilitating child exploitation. Over the course of multiple days, Kolhoff distributed the images of the victim to nine other members of... More...    $0 (04-13-2022 - 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)

Alexandria, Virginia criminal defense attorney represented defendant charged with a conspiracy involving the distribution of wholesale quantities of synthetic cannabinoids—commonly known as “spice” or “K2”—and laundering millions of dollars in the proceeds of the sale of that spice.

According to court documents, from 2017 through November 2019, Joseph Ruis, 56, was the leader... More...    $0 (03-03-2022 - VA)

Norfolk, Virginia criminal defense attorney represented defendant charged with conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering, in connection with a nationwide investment scheme involving fraudulent wireless spectrum and dental franchise investments.

According to court records and evidence presented at trial, from approximately 2011 through 2017, David Alcorn, ... More...    $0 (02-24-2022 - VA)

Alexandria, Virginia criminal defense attorney represented defendant charged with conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act Robberies.

Between January 24, 2021, and March 13, 2021, Jon Karl Mcree Fleet, 62, robbed a Macy’s Store in Springfield; a McDonald’s restaurant in Alexandria; a Subway restaurant in Largo, Maryland; a Papa John’s restaurant in Falls Church; and a Domino’s restaurant in... More...    $0 (02-15-2022 - VA)

Richmond, Virginia criminal defense attorney represented defendant charged with drug distribution in violation of 18 U.S.C. 841.

21:841(a)(1) & (b)(1)(A) AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH 18:924(d), INCORPORATED BY 28:2461(c), AND 21:853: POSSESS WITH INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE 1 KILOGRAM OR MORE OF HEROIN; FORFEITURE ALLEGATION
(2s)

21:841(a)(1) & (b)(1)(B) AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH 18:924(d), ... More...    $0 (04-06-2021 - VA)

Richmond, Virginia criminal defense attorney represented defendant charged with defrauding Virginia Medicaid.

Defendant, Durham, North Carolina, clinical psychologist was indicted for defrauding Virginia Medicaid of at least $544,067.69 by creating false diagnoses and medical records for Medicaid recipients, mostly minors, and falsely representing to Medicaid that he was providing them me... More...    $0 (02-04-2022 - VA)