A federal grand jury in North Carolina on Tuesday indicted former FBI Director James Comey on charges related to his posting of a photo of shells on a beach with the inscription "86-47" that prosecutors alleged was a threat to President Donald Trump.

The charges will be unveiled at a DOJ news conference at 4 p.m. ET, officials said.

It is expected that one of the charges will fall under a statute that prohibits a person from "knowingly and willfully deposits for conveyance in the mail or for a delivery from any post office or by any letter carrier any letter, paper, writing, print, missive, or document containing any threat to take the life of, to kidnap, or to inflict bodily harm upon the President of the United States, the President-elect, the Vice President."

The charges, first reported by CNN, mark the second time Comey has been indicted during this administration.

The earlier indictment in Virginia was dismissed amid legal scrutiny over the qualifications of then-acting U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan.

Reports broke in March that Comey had received a subpoena as part of a "grand conspiracy" probe by the DOJ.

Comey became a figure of national notoriety in 2016 after he announced that the FBI had reopened an investigation into then-former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a move that many have said swung the election to President Donald Trump.

Ben Whedon is the Chief Political Correspondent at Just the News. Follow him on X.