Published January 13, 2015
A small-town mayor is in jail in Newton County on four counts of soliciting sex over the Internet from a police detective posing as a 13-year-old girl.
Police said 62-year-old Allen Kauffman was arrested Friday and remains in jail on $50,000 bond.
Kauffman is the mayor of Collins, a town of about 200 people in St. Clair County about 50 miles northwest of Springfield.
Police said Kauffman was arrested after an investigation by police in Diamond in Newton County.
Court records show Kauffman did not have an attorney as of Monday morning. A phone message left at his home was not immediately returned.
Diamond police said Kauffman is married and serves as a pastor of the Temple Lot Church in Collins.
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