Virginia Illegal Reentry Law
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United States of America v. Google, L.L.C.
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Alexandria, Virginia anti-trust lawyers represented Google, which was accused to monopolizing two online advertising markets.
The Government claimed that Google violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act by “willfully acquiring and maintaining monopoly power in the open web display publisher ad server market and the open-web display ad exchange market.”
In August 2024, following a... More...
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(04-19-2025 - VA)
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United States of America v. Mynor Esau Jandres Flores
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Alexandria, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant who reentered the US after removal.
Mynor Esau Jandres Flores was convited of illegal reentry after removal,
in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a). He argued on appeal that 8 U.S.C. § 1326 is
unconstitutional because it violates the equal protection guarantee of the Fifth Amendment.
Specifically, Flores maintain... More...
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(12-24-2024 - VA)
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Winchester Department of Social Sevices v. Jennifer Elizabeth Jones
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Winchester, Virginia family law lawyer represented the Defendant in a parental rights termination case.
Mother is the biological parent to two children, H.J. and R.J.[2] The family first came to the Winchester Department of Social Services' (the Department) attention in 2020, when H.J. was born at 25-weeks gestation, and tested positive for fentanyl and marijuana exposu... More...
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(01-16-2024 - VA)
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Commonwealth of Virginia v. Steven Nicholas Dawson
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Verona, Virginia possession of cocaine criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant.
On March 23, 2021, a confidential and reliable informant (CRI) informed former Staunton Police Department Investigator Stuart Green that a man staying in Room 118 at the Skyline Motel had illegal narcotics and a firearm in his possession. She gave Green the man's first name, and he... More...
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(09-10-2024 - VA)
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Lindsey Nicole Perkins v. Rebecca Lynn (Hicks) Howington, et al.
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Tazwell, Virginia adoption lawyers represented the parties.
In 2019, mother and father shared joint legal custody over their biological child, with mother having primary physical custody. On February 14, 2020, father married stepmother. In March, the Tazewell County Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court ("J&DR district court") granted father temporary legal and... More...
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(09-10-2024 - VA)
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Keith Singleton v. International Business Sales & Services Corporation
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Harrisonburg, Virginia civil rights lawyer presented the Plaintiff on a job discrimination theory.
This case was filed in the Frederick Circuit Court, 069CL22000687-00, and was removed to federal court by International Business Sales & Services Corporation.
Singleton, a Virginia resident, worked as a cybersecurity coach for IBSS, a Maryland corporation, from December 16, 2021, u... More...
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(04-16-2024 - VA)
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United States of America v. Michael Vaughn
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PER CURIAM:
Following a three-day trial, a federal jury convicted Michael Brandon Vaughn of
five counts of distribution of fentanyl resulting in serious bodily injury, in violation of 21
U.S.C. § 841(a)(1), (b)(1)(C); one count of distribution of fentanyl resulting in serious
bodily injury and death, also in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1), (b)(1)(C); and
possession w... More...
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(12-25-2023 - VA)
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United States of America v. Michael Brandon Vaughn
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Following a three-day trial, a federal jury convicted Michael Brandon Vaughn of
five counts of distribution of fentanyl resulting in serious bodily injury, in violation of 21
U.S.C. § 841(a)(1), (b)(1)(C); one count of distribution of fentanyl resulting in serious
bodily injury and death, also in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1), (b)(1)(C); and
possession with intent to dis... More...
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(12-25-2023 - VA)
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United States of America v. Ye Wang
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Norfolk, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to engage in money laundering.
From approximately January 2021, through May 4, 2022, Ye Wang, 32, along with his co-defendants Si Liu, 36, and Yang Gao, 33, also of Norfolk, conspired to move and conceal proceeds obtained through prostitution. During the conspiracy, Gao, Wang, and Liu worked as ope... More...
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(12-01-2023 - VA)
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United States of America v. Wendell Lewis Randall
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Roanoke, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiring with others to use, in the course of dispensing and distributing controlled substances, a DEA registration number issued to another person. DEA registration numbers are unique identifiers issued to medical providers in order to track who issues drug prescriptions and to ensure only qualified providers pres... More...
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(11-22-2023 - VA)
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United States of America v. Debra Shaffer
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Roanoke, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with using the DEA Registration number of another while prescribing controlled substances.
Debra Shaffer, of New Castle, Virginia r was an important part of a years-long scheme to illegitimately distribute Suboxone by staff providers who lacked the training, experience, and legal authority to prescribe Suboxone... More...
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(10-24-2023 - VA)
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United States of America v. James Anthony Nolan
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Roanoke, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possessing an illegal sawed off shotgun.
in March 2023, a National Park Ranger saw a black Toyota Scion parked across two parking spaces at the Roanoke River Trail on the Blue Ridge Parkway. During a welfare check on the sole occupant of the vehicle, the Ranger could smell the odor of marijuana coming from ... More...
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(10-03-2023 - VA)
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United States of America v. Shai Cohen
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Alexandria, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to defraud and to commit offenses against the United States, bringing aliens to the United States for financial gain, encouraging and inducing aliens to unlawfully come to, enter and reside in the United States for financial gain, harboring illegal aliens and money laundering.
Shai Cohen, 39, all... More...
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(08-04-2023 - VA)
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United States of America v. Herman Tyrone Washington
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Richmond, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to participate in an animal fighting venture and possessing an animal for the purpose of having the venture aiding and abetting.
Herman Tyrone Washington, 51, of Highland Springs, Virginia, was charged with conspiracy to participate in an animal fighting venture and possession of a pitbull-type dog fo... More...
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(07-25-2023 - VA)
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United States of America v. Trashawn Newsome
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Norfolk, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with possession of a machine gun and possession of an unregistered firearm in violation of the national firearms act.
Trashawn Newsome, 21, was in possession of a machine gun on October 6, 2022. That day, Chesapeake Police officers were investigating a vehicle reported stolen in the vicinity of Camelot Boulevard. News... More...
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(06-02-2023 - VA)
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United States of America v. Li Liu, Yang Gao and Ye Wang
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Norfolk, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with with engaging in a conspiracy to launder money derived from running a prostitution business.

Federal Courthouse - Norfolk, Vi... More...
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(03-03-2023 - VA)
Caron Nazario v. Joe Gutierrez
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Richmond, Virginia plaintiff personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a civil rights violation theory under 42 U.S.C. 1983.
Lt. Caron Nazario sued Daniel Crocker and now-former officer Joe Gutierrez for claims of assault and battery, false imprisonment and illegal search during a traffic stop in 2020.
Plaintiff sought $1 million in damages.... More...
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(01-18-2023 - VA)
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United States of America v. William Everett Himes
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Abingdon, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with possessing with the intent to distribute crystal ice methamphetamine and for illegal possession of a firearm.
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(01-12-2023 - VA)
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United States of America v. Earlon Delton Mitchell
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Norfolk, Virginia criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with unlawfully possessing ammunition that he used to shoot at someone and for unlawfully possessing a firearm in a separate incident roughly a year later.
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(12-06-2022 - VA)
United States of America v. Gary McComas
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Huntington, West Virginia criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with structuring financial transactions to evade reporting requirements.
According to court documents and statements made in court, McComas admitted that he obtained multiple money orders in the Huntington area to help an individual in California evade financial reporting requirements. Federal law requires financ... More...
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(11-14-2022 - VA)
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United States of America v. Elmer Zelaya Martinez, Ronald Herrera Contreras, Henry Zelaya Martinez, Pablo Velasco Barrera, and Duglas Ramirez Ferrera
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Alexandria, Virginia criminal law lawyers represented Defendants charged with kidnapping and murder of two adolescent boys in 2016.
MS-13 gang members Elmer Zelaya Martinez, Ronald Herrera Contreras, Henry Zelaya Martinez, Pablo Velasco Barrera, and Duglas Ramirez Ferrera, along with their co-conspirators, targeted E.E.E.M., a 17-year-old resident of Falls Church, who they erroneously su... More...
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(11-04-2022 - VA)
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United States of America v. Demichael J. Peeples
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Newport News, Virginia criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with participating in a fraud scheme to obtain unemployment benefits made available because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Demichael J. Peeples, 27, submitted multiple false unemployment claims with the Commonwealth of Virginia and State of California. He filed fraudulent claims for benefits for himself and on behalf of ... More...
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(09-30-2022 - VA)
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United States of America v. Vicent Andres and Margaret Sutton
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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...
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(08-03-2022 - VA)
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United States of America v. Gerald Kendrick Oxner
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Harrisonburg, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with acting as a straw purchaser of a firearm.
Gerald Kendrick Oxner, 25, lied when he purchased a Smith and Wesson 9mm handgun from a Front Royal, Virginia gun store in January 2021. Oxner did not disclose that he was purchasing the weapon for a close relative and provided a false home address on required forms.... More...
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(07-21-2022 - VA)
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United States of America v. Demarcus Shaiquan Glenn
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Roanoke, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with a federal firearms offense.
Demarcus Shaiquan Glenn, 23, pled guilty in federal court to one count of possessing, brandishing, and discharging a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Glenn is expected to be sentenced to 144 months in federal prison.
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(07-15-2022 - VA)
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United States of America v. Demarcus Glenn
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Roanoke, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with felony firearm possession.
Demarcus Glenn, age 23, Demarcus Shaiquan Glenn, 23, pled guilty in federal court to one count of possessing, brandishing, and discharging a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Glenn is expected to be sentenced to 144 months in fede... More...
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(07-15-2022 - VA)
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Deborah McKague ex rel. United States of America v. HSCGP, et al.
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Abingdon, Virginia qui tam lawyers represented the Defendant accused to violaton the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) on numerous occasions between 2017 and 2020.
The claims center around Sovah Health’s failure to have effective controls in place to prevent the diversion of powerful painkilling prescription opioids. Sovah Health is a regional health care delivery system comprised of a... More...
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(06-14-2022 - VA)
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United States of America v. Zahida Aman,
Mohammad Nauman Chaudhri and Mohammed Rehan Chaudhri
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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...
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(05-13-2022 - VA)
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Rebecca Jones Richard v. Commonwealth of Virginia
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Richmond, Virginia - Criminal Defense lawyer represented defendant with assigning error to the denial of her motion to strike the conspiracy charge.
On June 14, 2018, Matthew Harris (“Harris”), an acquaintance of Richard’s, arranged
through text messages with “Mike from Willis” to t... More...
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(05-10-2022 - VA)
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Shaka Markel Long v. Commonwealth of Virginia
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Richmond, Virginia - Criminal Defense lawyer represented appellant with appealing a denial of his motion to suppress.
“In accordance with established principles of appellate review, we view the ‘evidence in the
light most favorable to the Commonwealth, as we must since it was the prevail... More...
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(05-09-2022 - VA)
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Jason Park v. Commonwealth of Virginia
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Richmond, Virginia - Criminal Defense lawyer represented defendant with k appealing his conviction for refusal of a breath test charge.
This appeal arises from an encounter that the appellant had with a police officer on
November 14, 2019. That day, Officer Aaron Ciarrocchi of the Fairfax Cou... More...
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(05-09-2022 - VA)
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United States of America v. Diogo Santos Coelho
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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...
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(04-12-2022 - VA)
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United States of America v. Raymond L. Johnson
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Alexandria, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with dog fighting.
Raymond L. Johnson, 41, of Henrico, was charged with conspiracy to participate in an animal fighting venture and illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition. Beginning in November 2019, law enforcement investigated a criminal organization involved in dog fighting based out of Richmond, and ext... More...
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(03-31-2022 - VA)
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C. Ray Davenport, Commissioner of Labor and Industry v. Utility Trailer Manufacturing Company
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Richmond, VA - Occupational Safety and Health lawyer represented defendant with a violation of safety standards charge.
On appeal of an order granting a motion to strike, we view the evidence in the light most
favorable to the non-moving party—the Commissioner—and accord him “the benefit ... More...
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(03-13-2022 - VA)
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Ashley Elizabeth Esposito v. Virginia State Police
Child Sexual Predator
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Richmond, VA - Criminal Defense lawyer represented defendant denial of her request to be removed from the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry.
In 2009, Esposito pled guilty to oral sodomy with a seventeen-year-old minor in violation
of Code § 18.2-361. At the time Esposito was ... More...
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(03-12-2022 - VA)
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United States of America v. Gary Giovon Lynn
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Richmond, VA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with being a felon in possession of a firearm charge.
On January 4, 2016, Officer A.D. Gardner of the Winston-Salem Police
Department stopped a speeding vehicle occupied by Lynn along with two other
individuals. While standing near the vehicle, Officer Gardne... More...
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(01-03-2022 - VA)
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United States of America v. Shon E. Melton
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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...
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(10-12-2021 - VA)
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United States of America v. John Paul Linke
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Abingdon, VA: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with conspiracy to receive and pay kickback... More...
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(09-23-2021 - VA)
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United States of America v. Lori Ann Villanueva Talens
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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,” said Raj Parekh, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern Dist... More...
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(09-16-2021 - VA)
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United States of America v. James B. Clawson, Sr.
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Alexandria, VA: Possession of child pornography criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, James B. Clawson Sr., 58, of Alexandria, was previously convicted of distribution of child pornography after law enforcement learned that he was serving as an administrator of an online forum dedicated to trafficking in child sexual abuse material. In 2019, while Clawson was serving a term of federal su... More...
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(08-30-2021 - VA)
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