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A convicted Maine sex offender has pleaded guilty to possessing child sexual abuse material.
Clyde Hall, 60, of Portland entered his plea Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Portland, according to the U.S. attorney’s office.
Hall had saved, shared or uploaded a file containing child sexual abuse material on a social media app, which alerted authorities back in December.
Investigators obtained a search warrant for Hall’s Google account, where they found “thousands of child sexual abuse file” and a “selfie-style photo” of him, the U.S. attorney’s office said.
Hall, a lifetime registrant on the Maine Sex Offender Registry, faces between 10 and 20 years in prison, a fine up to $250,000 and up to a lifetime of supervised release.
He will be sentenced at a later date after a judge consults the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other factors.
Hall has a criminal history, including possessing child sexual abuse material and sexual offenses against young girls, dating back into the 1980s in both Maine and New York, where he was convicted of sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl.
Hall found himself listed on “America’s Most Wanted” back in 2012 when he failed to show up at a halfway house in Albany, New York, and to meet with his probation officer after completing a 25-month federal prison sentence, The Associated Press reported at the time.
Hall was registered in New York as a Level 3 sex offender, the state’s most dangerous classification, according to the AP.
He was arrested on Congress Street in Portland in October 2013, after about 18 months on the run, ABC affiliate WMTW reported then.
A federal judge sentenced him to two years in prison and 10 years of supervised release for failing to check in at the halfway house and registering for the New York sex offender registry.