The Department of Justice is expected to announce the arrest of an award-winning investigative reporter on charges related to child pornography, according to a person who has been briefed on the plans.

The FBI last April raided the Arlington, Va. home of James Gordon Meek, a former foreign correspondent for ABC News. The DOJ said at the time that its investigation of Meek was unrelated to his work as a journalist.

Meek abruptly resigned from ABC following the raid without giving any clear explanation to network bosses.

[We hadn’t covered this story, but both Rolling Stone and the Daily Beast did, raising questions about whether the Biden administration tried to shut Meek down over his coverage of the Afghanistan withdrawal fiasco. Will this end that speculation? Maybe, but it will be interesting to see how the FBI tumbled to Meek’s alleged criminal activities, too. — Ed]