The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that Bodee Baldwin of Amarillo, Texas, has been formally sentenced in U.S. District Court in Charlottesville, Va., for making false statements to a federal agency.

Baldwin was sentenced Feb. 16 to 2 years probation, fined $10,000, and ordered to pay $2,300 in restitution to the victim of the standing count of making a false statement. He was also ordered to pay $100 to a crimes victims fund.

In July 1999, Baldwin was indicted on five counts of false statements to a federal agency and one count of wire fraud. According to evidence presented in the case, Baldwin provided falsified Coggins test reports when he sold four horses. The test reports had been altered to match horses he brought into Virginia to sell.

A Coggins test is used to detect equine infectious anemia, a highly contagious and potentially fatal viral disease of members of the horse family. There is no vaccine or treatment for the disease