Former Athens mayor sentenced to federal prison

TYLER, Texas — The former mayor of Athens used to be sentenced to federal prison for attempting to have intercourse with kids on-line.

According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, James Monte Montgomery, 65, pleaded responsible to federal fees of sending obscene fabrics to a minor on Aug. 25, 2022. He used to be sentenced to 5 years in federal prison.

Montgomery used to be arrested on June 3, 2021 after soliciting intercourse on-line with investigators posing as minors. 

In June 2020, Montgomery began speaking by way of textual content message with an individual he believed to be a 15-year-old woman. In the messages, Montgomery described sexually particular acts that he sought after to carry out at the kid and introduced to pay the kid if she would meet him and feature intercourse with him.

This case used to be investigated by way of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Tyler Field Office, the Texas Department of Public Safety, Collin County Sheriff’s Office, and the Department of Homeland Security-Homeland Security Investigations.