Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, was indicted Thursday on three prison counts associated to his possession of a firearm, a court docket submitting confirmed.

The costs in U.S. District Court docket in Delaware got here weeks after the sudden collapse of a cope with federal prosecutors.

Hunter Biden, who has been open about his substance abuse struggles, is charged in two of the counts with mendacity about his unlawful drug use in connection along with his buy of a Colt Cobra revolver. The third rely fees him with possession of a firearm by an individual who’s an illegal drug consumer.

The 2 most severe counts carry most sentences of 10 years in jail and $250,000 fines.

The White Home and an legal professional for Hunter Biden didn’t reply to an preliminary request for remark.

The 53-year-old son of the sitting president had appeared in federal court docket in July with the intention of pleading responsible to misdemeanor prison tax fees.

His attorneys had reached a separate pretrial diversion settlement with prosecutors on an unrelated firearms cost.

However the plan fell aside after the presiding decide probed the prosecutor and Biden’s legal professional in regards to the particulars of the settlement.

Biden pleaded not responsible in that listening to on the costs of failing to pay federal taxes on greater than $1.5 million yearly in 2017 and 2018. That tax invoice has since been repaid.

U.S. Lawyer David Weiss and Biden’s attorneys have since argued in dueling court docket filings over whether or not their prior settlement to let Hunter escape prosecution on the felony weapons cost is in impact.

“We imagine the signed and filed diversion settlement [on the gun charge] stays legitimate and prevents any extra fees from being filed towards Mr. Biden,” Biden’s lawyer Abbe Lowell stated this month. The legal professional harassed that Biden “has been abiding by the situations of launch below that settlement for the final a number of weeks, together with common visits by the probation workplace.”

Earlier in September, Weiss, who had been appointed particular counsel in Hunter Biden’s case by Lawyer Common Merrick Garland, signaled that prosecutors would file an indictment by the top of the month.

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— CNBC’s Brian Schwartz contributed to this report.