(EAST ST. LOUIS, IL) — A 41-year-old Collinsville man pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court to an indictment charging him with access with intent to view prepubescent child pornography. According to Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Jeremy T. Blair faces between 10 and 20 years in federal prison, a fine up to $250,000 and a term of supervised release from five years to life. Blair will also have to register as a sex offender after he is released from prison. His sentencing has been scheduled for March 17, 2017, in East St. Louis. During a May 2015 undercover FBI investigation in Fairview Heights, Illinois, led to the discovery of an IP address that was sharing child pornography on a peer-to-peer network. A subpoena requesting subscriber information for this IP address eventually led the FBI to Jeremy T. Blair, a registered sex offender. On July 17, 2015, a desktop computer was seized during the execution of a federal search warrant at Blair’s residence. A forensic examination of the computer revealed 26 videos of child pornography in the recycle bin. Those videos had all been previewed by Blair while he attempted to download the video to his computer via a file sharing program. The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Springfield Child Exploitation Task Force. The case is assigned to Assistant United States Attorney Angela Scott.