An Austin man with a history of sex crimes was sentenced to prison in federal court Friday. Phillip Arlan Koontz, 53, will serve 20 years in prison for distributing child pornography. Koontz pleaded guilty to in January
to the 2018 crime in which Koontz began chatting online with an undercover federal agent posing as a 13-year-old girl, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
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