Federal Crimes

Recent Cases

Church Law Firm Helps Client Avoid Deportation and Decades in Prison in Human Trafficking and Money Laundering Case

September 1, 2025

Our client’s restaurant, Sabor a Mexico, which remains open to this day Our client, a restaurant owner and longtime permanent resident in Atlanta, was facing serious federal charges in two different districts–he was charged with federal money laundering in the Southern District of Texas in Houston, and he and his wife were charged with alien […]

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Our Firm Obtains TIME SERVED Sentence for Client Convicted of Federal Cocaine Trafficking Conspiracy

October 17, 2024

This week, our firm pulled off a rare victory–we helped our client obtain a sentence of “time served” in a federal criminal case involving an interstate drug trafficking conspiracy. This was the best possible outcome for our client after he was indicted on federal charges that carried a mandatory minimum of 10 years in prison. […]

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Our Firm Secures Time Served Sentence for Restaurant Owner Falsely Charged with Labor Trafficking and Alien Smuggling

September 4, 2024

Estela Gonzalez (middle) with Paralegal Emily Brooks and Attorney Tom Church For the past year and a half, our firm has been part of a joint defense team representing Efrain and Estela Gonzalez, the husband-and-wife owners of a popular Mexican restaurant, Sabor a Mexico, who were falsely accused of labor trafficking, alien smuggling, and other offenses […]

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Our Firm Gets Temporary Restraining Order Against the South Fulton Chief of Police, Prohibiting Further Raids of Our Client’s Hemp Store

June 25, 2024

Last Friday morning, a Fulton County Superior Court Judge granted a Temporary Restraining Order for our clients, who own a smoke shop in the City of South Fulton, prohibiting the South Fulton Police Department from conducting further raids against our clients, who own a smoke shop in the city called Air Freshener Depot. The judge […]

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The Future of THCA Products as “Hemp”

June 25, 2024

Lately there has been a lot of discussion in the hemp industry regarding “THCA” products, such as THCA flowers and vapes, and whether these popular products fall under the definition of “hemp” and are thus legal. Law enforcement and other government officials have tried to argue that these products are illegal marijuana, even when they […]

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