Alabama Attorney General Troy King says a former Pickens County district judge has pleaded guilty to possession of methamphetamine and has been sentenced to 50 months in prison.

King said 59-year-old Ira D. Colvin entered a plea agreement in Pickens County Circuit Court and was sentenced Tuesday. The illegal drug was found in Colvin's Carrollton office in August 2006.

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

Colvin was appointed district judge in December 2002 and was removed from the bench following his arrest. His sentence in Alabama won't start until he completes his prison term in Mississippi.