Aggressive Criminal Defense Blog

In 2015, federal law enforcement launched an investigation into a drug trafficking ring in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As the investigation unfolded, it came to light that the group was larger and more complex than they previously thought. One arm of the trafficking circle allegedly brought cocaine all the way to Detroit from the U.S. Virgin Islands. […]

Although Michigan’s revenge porn laws have recently changed, for one woman from Bay City that doesn’t seem to have made any difference to the charges she is facing. 22-year-old Stephanie J. Knapp of Bay County, Michigan, has been accused of posting nude pictures of another woman to Facebook, and the charges she is facing as […]

It has only been a few weeks since 29-year-old Sebastian Gregerson was arrested for attempting to buy illegal arms from an undercover agent posing as a weapons dealer. Since then,  a lot of information has come to light in that time and FBI documents have revealed some of it to the curious public.   Gregerson, […]

Keith Appling, the 24-year-old former Michigan State University basketball star is having a very rough year. He has now been arrested a total of three times since May of this year, all three times for weapons related charges.   According to police records, an officer observed a 2013 blue Dodge Charger committing a traffic offense […]

After the Courser/Gamrat sex scandal that blazed through the Michigan media for months, the debacle where State senator Virgil Smith shot at his ex-wife’s car, and the business with both the Newaygo County Commissioner and the Bay City Commissioner who faced charges for larceny and destruction of property, Michigan politics seems to have had a […]

Two Western Michigan University football players have been suspended from the Bronco football team following felony criminal charges that could land them both in prison for life. Linebacker Ron George and wide receiver Bryson White are accused of teaming up and breaking into a woman’s apartment, where they allegedly threatened her with weapons and robbed […]

Buddy Randal Parker, a 36-year-old resident of Fairfield, Ohio, was recently arrested in Kalamazoo Township for allegedly trying to deliver a large quantity of methamphetamines to a house in the Kalamazoo County. It seems that police were aware of Parker’s reason for being in Kalamazoo because  an informant had tipped them off that he intended […]

  Mere minutes before his trial was scheduled to begin, the single felony charge against 63-year-old Paul Joseph (Joe) Harcz of Mt. Morris, MI was dropped. Harcz, a blind activist, was arrested while demonstrating outside the Capitol building in Lansing last year.   The arrest took place on September 17, 2015. Harcz had been present […]

  Former Ingham County Prosecuting Attorney, now convicted felon Stuart Dunnings III wants to remove a certain local judge from his case. The former Ingham County Prosecutor recently pled guilty in a prostitution case that has caused big scandal in mid Michigan. His newest installment is sure to raise a few eyebrows.   Ingham County […]

  Just days ago the federal government announced that it intended to stop its years-long practice of using privately run prisons to house inmates. The plan, explained in a memo that instructs officials to either decline to renew private prison operators’ contracts when they expire or “substantially reduce” the contracts’ scope, plans to phase out […]