An Alabama Alcohol Beverage Control agent has been indicted on 12 felony charges, including allegations of using his state law enforcement position for personal gain.

Steven Wrea Ziaja was booked into the Montgomery County Jail on Tuesday before being released on $30,000 bail, court documents show. The 39-year-old from Morgan County has worked as an ABC agent employed by the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency.

The indictments, made public today, accuse Ziaja of obtaining multiple people's personal information from the Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center using state computers. The Center's database includes information from the National Crime Information Center, also known as NCIC. The information is available to law enforcement for investigative and official business purposes.

Court documents don't state why Ziaja obtained information about the people. The information was considered confidential -- not public, the indictments state.

Ziaja is charged with 11 felony counts of computer tampering and one count of using his law enforcement position for personal gain. Court documents allege he used his position "to obtain personal gain for himself, a family member or a business with which he was associated." Records don't identify what the gain was or what it relates to. Ziaja hung up the phone when AL.com contacted him for comment.

Ziaja was in the news last year in Decatur when he was named as a creditor in a car lot that filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Ziaja claimed the co-owner of Priceville Partners LLC owed him $464,299 plus interest for loans to the car lot, court documents show. Also a creditor listed in the $3.2 million bankruptcy suit was Morgan County Sheriff Ana Franklin. Franklin loaned the car lot $150,000. It was later made public that Franklin used the jail's food account to make the loan to the car lot's co-owner Greg Steenson. Steenson, who was convicted in a federal check-kiting scheme in the 1990s, has been charged with multiple counts of theft related to moving stolen cars through the lot, court records show. The car lot's creditors, including the sheriff and Ziaja, haven't been charged with theft.

The indictments against Ziaja were issued in Montgomery County Circuit Court. Indictments are issued when a grand jury determines prosecutors have enough evidence to formally charge a defendant and send the case to trial. The Alabama Attorney General's Office is prosecuting the case, which was investigated by ALEA special agents.

Each of the computer tampering charges is punishable by up to 10 years in prison. The use of office for personal gain charge carries a sentence up to 20 years in prison. A booking photograph of Ziaja and further details about the case weren't immediately available.