Henderson woman pleads guilty to mishandling classified documents | Courts

A Henderson woman has pleaded guilty to mishandling sensitive documents while working for a Department of Defense agency.

Margaret Anne Ashby, 26, entered the plea Wednesday in Georgia.

According to her plea agreement, Ashby began working for the unnamed agency in Georgia in 2020 as a civilian employee and held a high security clearance.

In 2022, under the agreement, it removed documents and materials containing classified information “concerning the national defense or foreign relations of the United States…with the intent to retain them in unauthorized locations,” including at his home in Georgia and on a home computer. device.

No sentencing date was sent. The FBI investigated the matter.

Contact Paul Pearson at [email protected].