PORTLAND — An Alfred man with a criminal history of viewing images of child pornography pleaded guilty Thursday to a federal child porn possession charge at U.S. District Court.

Kevin Millette, 43, faces 10 to 20 years in prison, a $250,000 fine and between five years to life on supervised release, according to U.S. Attorney Thomas Delahanty II.

Millette is a registered sex offender; he was convicted of state charges in September 2010 for possessing child pornography when he lived in Biddeford. He was sentenced to two years in prison, with all but 90 days suspended, and two years probation in connection with that charge.

In the federal case, according to an affidavit prepared by special agent David Fife of Homeland Security Investigations, Millette saved images of prepubescent children to a Google Drive file storage account. Fife had obtained a search warrant for Millette’s email account on Nov. 10.

Days later, federal agents executed a search warrant at Millette’s Biddeford Road home in Alfred. He was present, agreed to be interviewed, admitted that he had accessed child pornography recently using his phone, and estimated that he had thousands of child pornography images on the phone, according to Delahanty.

Investigators seized three cell phones and a memory card from the residence. One of the phones was in the process of downloading child pornography when it was seized.

A forensic analysis of the phone and its memory card revealed thousands of digital images depicting children engaging in sexually explicit conduct, as well as a smaller number of child pornography videos. Another memory card also contained child pornography images.

He will be sentenced after the completion of a pre-sentence investigation report by the U.S. Probation Office.

— Senior Staff Writer Tammy Wells can be contacted at 324-4444 (local call in Sanford) or 282-1535, ext. 327 or [email protected].