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Rojas named JACKSONVILLE assistant director of FBI Insider Threat Office
THE MATHIS REPORT
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Karma Automotive to open dealership in Jacksonville
She has been the special agent in charge of the Jacksonville Division since 2019.
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An artist’s rendering of the Karma Automotive dealership planned at 11619 Beach Blvd near Interstate 295. Karma plans to renovate the 16,481-square-foot Classic Home Furniture building at the site. The furniture store is closing and selling its inventory.
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The luxury electric carmaker intends to buy the Classic Home Furniture site on Beach Boulevard. California-based Karma Automotive intends to enter the Jacksonville market in March to sell its line of luxury electric vehicles whose new GSe-6 will start at almost $80,000 when it debuts in the first quarter. The GSe-6 is the brand’s first pure
The Karma Automotive GS-6 in Saguaro Green. The cars start at about $80,000.
battery electric vehicle. The site is at northeast Beach Boulevard and Interstate 295. Dealer Principal Val Ranguelov, president of Karma Albany and Bul Auto Sales and Service in Albany, New York, said he had a choice to open the Karma dealership in Tampa or Jacksonville. “We found a lot more opportunity in Jacksonville, a nicer environment and overall economic growth. Jacksonville
is so vast and is expanding constantly,” Ranguelov said Nov. 8. He said he visted Jacksonville about 12 years ago and has been coming regularly to town, where he has longtime friends. “We strongly believe it is a better opportunity.” Ranguelov said he expects to invest more than $5 million to buy and renovate SEE MATHIS, PAGE 2
FBI Director Christopher Wray announced the promotion Nov. 10 of FBI Special Agent in Charge of the Jacksonville Division Rachel Rojas to assistant director of the FBI’s Insider Threat Office in Washington, D.C. The Insider Threat Office is the FBI’s program to help companies protect their data and trade secrets from theft by people within the company. Rojas joined the FBI in 1996 as an investigative specialist for the Rojas New York Field Office. In 2005, Rojas was promoted to supervisory special agent and transferred to the Terrorism Financing Operations Section of the Counterterrorism Division at FBI headquarters. She was promoted to assistant special agent in charge of New York’s Criminal Division in 2012. In 2015 she was named as a section chief in the Security Division. In 2019, Rojas became the FBI’s first Latina special agent in charge when she was appointed to lead the Jacksonville Field Office. She led law enforcement investigations and operations including the search for Susan Mauldin, the FBI’s first discovery of human remains in a processed landfill; and the Naval Air Station Pensacola terrorism investigation, the first Al Qaeda-inspired attack on U.S. soil since 9/11.
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Jacksonville Save A Lot stores sold to Yellow Banana Discount grocer Save A Lot said Nov. 2 it sold its four Jacksonville stores as part of plan to convert corporate-owned stores to local ownership. The Missouri-based company sold the four stores and two in Dallas to Yellow Banana LLC, which is owned by Cleveland-based investment company 127 Wall Holdings LLC. The four Jacksonville stores are at 762 Edgewood Ave. N.; 5276 Blanding Blvd.; 8000 Lem Turner Road; and 5995 University Blvd. Yellow Banana said it will keep all employees and the stores will undergo “a significant remodel in 2022 to fully reflect Save A Lot’s updated brand image.”
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