Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Child porn nets life term
FORT SMITH — A Holiday Island man was sentenced in U.S. District Court on Tuesday on one count of production of child pornography.
Lucas Montagne, 33, was sentenced in Fort Smith to life imprisonment and five years of supervised release. U.S. District Judge P.K. Holmes III also ordered $1,295 in restitution.
Montagne entered a guilty plea to the charge Oct. 10, according to court records.
Court documents state Homeland Security Agent Gerald Faulkner received a cyber tip line report from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children April regarding media files containing what was believed to be images of child pornography being uploaded to Google. According to the tip, the metadata from one of the files indicated the image may have been taken about Feb. 23 near Holiday Island.
A search warrant was obtained for the Google account, court documents state. Results yielded more images of child pornography of the boy and a picture of another boy appearing to have been taken in the same home where the first boy was photographed.
Officials searched Montagne’s home May 21, according to the documents. Two boys, one 9 and the other 7, were in the home and identified as the boys in the images from the Google search.
Montagne had been convicted of a sexual offense in which the victim was a minor in 2012 in Montgomery County, Texas. He was convicted in 2014 in Harris County, Texas, of sexual assault-child under 17 and two counts of sexual assault-child 14-17.
In addition to the one count of production of child pornography, Montagne was indicted June 26 on three other counts of production of child pornography, two counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a minor, one count of possession of child pornography and one count of commission of a felony offense against a minor by a registered sex offender.