A former top U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement official accused of looking at images of minors having sex  pleaded guilty Friday to federal pornography charges, The Associated Press reports.

A 27-year veteran of ICE, Anthony Mangione, 51, ran the agency’s South Florida operations from 2007 to 2011 and helped investigate child pornography cases.

Mangione was charged in September with three counts of using a home computer to receive and transmit child pornography.

Mangione retired a few months after authorities searched his home and office computers in April 2011. Sentencing is set for Oct. 5.  He faces a mandatory minimum of five year in prison.

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