The article does not mention party affiliation, but according to wiki Gov. Martinez is a Republican.
Anyway, I did not know that one can become a criminal for receiving an email message?! Maybe this guy better call Saul!
The article isn’t clear at all but it seems what happened is that he’d hacked into the governor’s email, and while that investigation was being pursued, child pornography was found on his computer. There were 6 charges against him, he pled to one, no doubt the least of the 6.