WICHITA, Kan., Feb. 1 (UPI) -- A Kansas man has entered a plea of guilty in federal court to collecting more than 1 million images of child pornography, a federal official said.
U.S. Attorney Barry Grisson told The Wichita (Kan.) Eagle Matthew Alter pleaded guilty to one count of possession of child pornography Tuesday.
Sentencing is scheduled for April 15.
Alter faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison and a maximum fine of $250,000.
He became the subject of an investigation after police in Italy said a computer user in Kansas was accessing a child porn Web site.
Grisson said investigators followed an electronic trail to Alter's home in Wichita where they seized computer hard drives containing pornographic images of children ranging in age from 1 to 12.
