Virginia Kidnapping Law

<h2> <center> United States of America v. Jordan Perez </h2> </center>

Charlottesville, Virginia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with kidnapping and transporting illegal aliens resulting in death. Reported by <a href="https://www.morelaw.com/vendors/vendor.asp?f=Kent&l=Morlan&i=28729&z=74119&s=OK" target="_new">Kent Morlan</a> Jordan Perez, 21, of Lockhart, Texas, and co-conspirator, Ricardo Ordaz, 26, of Cedar Creek Texas, tied to t... More...

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<H2> United States of America v. Ricardo Francisco Ordaz

Charlottesville, Virginia, criminal defense lawyers Jessica Fay Phillips and Rhonda Quafliana represented the Defendant charged with kidnapping and illegally transporting aliens resulting in death. Ricardo Franco Ordaz, 26, of Cedar Creek, Texas, arranged to transport victims from an area near the United States-Mexico border and bring them to a stash house near Austin, Texas. Once there, Ordaz,... More...

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<H2> United States of America v. Elena Pendergrass

Alexandria, Virginia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with international parental kidnapping. Pendergrass, aka Elena Stukalkina, 35, resided in Alexandria prior to her daughter’s birth on May 21. Though a DNA test prior to birth confirmed the child’s paternity, Pendergrass ordered the father to cease and desist all communications. After the child was born, she list... More...

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United States of America v. Melchor Calderon

PER CURIAM: In 2014, Melchor Calderon was convicted of conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. Â§ 1951; possessing a firearm during a crime of violence, in violation of 18 U.S.C. Â§Â§ 2, 924(c)(1)(B)(i); conspiracy to distribute cocaine, in violation of 21 U.S.C. Â§ 846; and kidnapping, in violation of 18 U.S.C. Â§Â§ 2, 1201(a). Caldero... More...

$0 (12-26-2023 - VA)

State of West Virginia v. Gerald Wayne Davis

Charleston, West Virginia defendant was charged with sexual assault and kidnapping. Gerald Wayne Davis, age 26, and, his father Dewey Davis, were charged with abducting, sexually abusing and sexually assaulting a woman. The Supreme Court of Appeals for West Virginia described the case against Davis as follows: "The charges against the appellant arose primarily from ... More...

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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

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...

$0 (11-04-2022 - VA)

United States of America v. Steve Cochran

Newport News, Virginia criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with making more than 60 threats to murder, rape, torture and otherwise harm state and federal elected officials, including numerous members of Congress and a former President of the United States. Steve Cochran, 43, repeatedly threatened to murder, kidnap, torture, and/or rape elected officials and their loved ones.... More...

$0 (10-13-2022 - VA)

United States of America v. Peter Le, Young Yoo, Joseph Lamborn and Tony Le

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...

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United States of America v. Thomas Hammond

<center><h2> Richmond, VA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with attempted bank robbery and one count of bank robbery charges. </h2></center> In 2017, Hammond pleaded guilty to one count of attempted bank robbery and one count of bank robbery, both in violation of 18 U.S.C. Â§ 2113(a). Before sentencing, the probation officer prep... More...

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United States of America v. Devon Allen Odell Scott

Richmond, Virginia kidnapping criminal defense lawyer represented, Devon Allen Odell Scott, who was charged with kidnapping and carjacking of a woman. According to allegations in the indictment, on Sept. 18, 2019, Devon Allen Odell Scott, 38, of Edgewood, abducted a woman for the purpose of committing a sexual assault on and robbery of that same victim, and after traveling from Maryland t... More...

$0 (12-04-2020 - VA)

United States of America v. Jaime Amilcar Guevara-Paz

<center> <img width="300" src="http://www.vaed.uscourts.gov/images/Newalexandria.jpg"> </center> Alexandria, VA - Two-Time Felon Sentenced For Illegally Reentering the U.S. A Salvadoran national was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for illegally reentering the United States. “Guevara-Paz was twice convicted of felony offenses, and reentered within months after... More...

$0 (02-24-2019 - VA)

United States of America v. Willie Johnson

<center> <img width="300" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/W.D._VA_courthouse_in_Lynchburg.jpg/250px-W.D._VA_courthouse_in_Lynchburg.jpg"> </center> Defendant Willie Johnson challenges the district court’s order resentencing him for armed bank robbery and related crimes following a successful petition vacating his original sentence under 28 U.S.C. �... More...

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United States of America v. Michael Lawrence Maynes, Jr.

Michael Maynes raises various assignments of error arising from his trial and convictions for four counts of sex trafficking by use of force, fraud, or coercion in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1591(a) and one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1591(a) and 1594(c). For the reasons that follow, we affirm the convictions. I. Michael Mayne... More...

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United States of America v. Scott Steward Cammorto

Scott Cammorto pleaded guilty to knowingly failing to register in Virginia as a sex offender, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2250. Based on his underlying conviction in Georgia for rape, the district court sentenced Cammorto as a Tier III offender pursuant to U.S.S.G. § 2A3.5(a)(1) and thus imposed an enhanced sentence of 41 months’ imprisonment. Cammorto now challenges the district court’s rel... More...

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Justina Alice Dunne v. Commonwealth of Virginia

“When considering a challenge to the sufficiency of evidence on appeal, we review the evidence in the light most favorable to the prevailing party at trial and consider all inferences fairly deducible from that evidence.” Jones v. Commonwealth, 276 Va. 121, 124, 661 S.E.2d 412, 414 (2008). In February of 2014, Conner Sullivan, a student at the Virginia Military Institute ... More...

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Christian John Prekker v. Commonwealth of Virginia

In 2012, while seventeen years old, appellant was adjudicated delinquent for two instances of violating Code § 18.2-248(G), possession with intent to distribute imitation cocaine. The violations of Code § 18.2-248(G) would have been non-violent felonies if appellant had been an adult when he committed the offenses. Appellant does not dispute that he was over the age of fift... More...

$0 (03-28-2016 - VA)

United States v. Flores-Granados

In 2013, Marlon Flores-Granados pled guilty to a single-count indictment for illegal reentry into the United States following deportation and a conviction for an aggravated felony. See 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a), (b)(2). He now challenges his sentence, specifically the 16-level enhancement that was applied pursuant to the United States Sentencing Guidelines § 2L1.2(b)(1)(A)(ii) for prior conviction of ... More...

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United States of America v. Mohamed Ali SAid a/k/a Mohammed Said, a/k/a Maxamad Cali Saciid

In early 2010, a group of seven Somalis — including defendants Mohamed Ali Said, Mohamed Abdi Jama, and Abdicasiis Cabaase — boarded a small skiff and entered the Gulf of Aden (in the Indian Ocean between the Arabian Peninsula and the Horn of Africa), intending to seize a merchant ship at sea. Their objective was foiled by the British warship HMS Chatham, which was conducting a counter-piracy ... More...

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United States of America v. Julio Estiven Gracia Ramirez

ALEXANDRIA, Va. â€“ A Colombian man extradited to the Eastern District of Virginia pleaded guilty today for his involvement in the kidnap and murder of Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent James Terry Watson in BogotÃ¡, Colombia, on June 20, 2013. Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department's Criminal Divis... More...

$0 (09-04-2014 - VA)

Tobia Romero Quitanilla v. Eric H. Holder, Jr.

Petitioner Tobia Romero Quitanilla, a native of El Salvador, sought discretionary relief from removal by way of a special rule cancellation under the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act of 1997 (the "NACARAâ€).1 An Immigration Judge (the "IJâ€) denied Quitanilla's request, ruling that he was ineligible for relief because of the "persecutor bar,â€ codified at 8 U.S.... More...

$0 (07-14-2014 - VA)

United States of America v. Ahmed Muse Salad, Abukar Osman Beyle and Shani Nurani Shiekh Abrar

The United States of America charged Ahmed Muse Salad, Abukar Osman Beyle and Shani Nurani Shiekh Abrarpiracy under the law of nations in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1651; conspiracy to commit kidnapping in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1201; Use, carry, possess and discharge a firearm during and in relation to and in furtherance of the commission of a crime of violence in violation of 18 U.S.C. 924; Conspira... More...

$0 (08-03-2013 - VA)

Andrea S. Morrison v. Adam Morrison

Andrea Morrison ("motherâ€) appeals the Floyd County Circuit Court's refusal to register and enforce a Michigan divorce decree, dated September 17, 2003, awarding her sole legal and physical custody of her daughter, J.M., born October 14, 2002. Mother contends the reason given by the court in refusing to register and enforce the decree is not among the reasons listed in the Uniform Child Cust... More...

$0 (02-08-2011 - VA)