A 26-year-old Waterloo woman has been sentenced to 12 months in prison for buying a gun for her boyfriend, a man prohibited from possessing firearms due to a prior domestic abuse conviction.
Ashley Nichole Lies, of Waterloo, Iowa, was sentenced to 12 months and 1 day imprisonment on April 12, 2021 by United States District Court Judge C.J. Williams in Cedar Rapids.
Lies made a false statement during the purchase of a 9mm pistol in July 2020, claiming she was buying the gun for herself when in fact she was purchasing it for her boyfriend.
The gun was seized from her boyfriend a few weeks after the purchase, and investigators determined that Lies also attempted to buy at least one other gun for her boyfriend and a friend, but was denied.
Lies was also ordered to serve a three-year term of supervised release after her prison term, and must pay a $100 special assessment fund.
The case was investigated by the Cedar Falls Police Department, the Waterloo Police Department, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives, and was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Ashley Corkery as part of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN).
PSN is a Department of Justice program aimed at reducing violent crime by focusing enforcement efforts on the most violent offenders and partnering with locally based prevention and reentry programs.
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Key Facts
- State: Iowa
- Category: Violent Crime
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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