FORMER PICKENS JUDGE SENTENCED FOR ILLEGAL DRUGS

ALICEVILLE - Alabama Attorney General Troy King said a former Pickens
County district judge has pleaded guilty to possession of
methamphetamine and was sentenced to 50 months in prison Tuesday.
59-year-old Ira D. Colvin entered a plea agreement in Pickens County
Circuit Court, King said. The illegal drug was found in Colvin's
Carrollton office in August 2006.

Colvin was already serving a 12-year sentence in Mississippi after
pleading guilty to similar offenses in Mississippi.

Colvin's sentence in Alabama won't start until he completes his prison
term in Mississippi.