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Former Athens mayor pleads guilty to sending obscene materials to minors

On June 3, 2021, Montgomery was arrested after soliciting sex online with investigators posing as minors.

ATHENS, Texas — Editor's Note: Video above aired on June 2021.

A former Athens mayor who was arrested last year during a prostitution sting has pleaded guilty to federal charges of sending obscene materials to a minor Thursday. 

James Monte Montgomery, 64, was arrested on June 3, 2021 after soliciting sex online with investigators posing as minors. 

In June 2020, Montgomery started communicating by text messaging with a person he believed to be a 15-year-old girl. In the messages, Montgomery described sexually explicit acts that he wanted to perform on the child and offered to pay the child if she would meet him and have sex with him.

Montgomery faces up to 10 years in federal prison at sentencing. 

The sentencing hearing will be scheduled after the U.S. Probation Office completes an investigation. 

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