YOUNGSTOWN — Charles B. Ingram, 47, of North Bloomfield, was indicted last week in U.S. District Court on a federal offense called influencing and intimidating a federal official by threat and one called interstate threatening communications.

U.S. District Court Magistrate Carmen Henderson earlier this month ordered Ingram held in detention following a hearing in the federal courthouse in Youngstown.

At that hearing, FBI agent David Brown testified that Ingram admitted to the agent to posting numerous messages on YouTube that threatened U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and others in January. At the end of the hearing, Henderson bound over the case to a federal grand jury.

Ingram’s indictment states that his alleged crimes took place Dec. 23, 2025, through about Jan. 18, 2026, in the Northern District of Ohio, Eastern Division.

The indictment alleges that Ingram threatened to assault and murder federal law enforcement officers, namely Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, with intent to impede, intimidate and interfere with ICE agents while they were engaged in the performance of their official duties.

The other charge alleges that Ingram from about Dec. 23, 2025, through about Jan. 28, 2026, transmitted in interstate and foreign commerce YouTube comments, which contained threats to injure the person of another — ICE agents.

Each offense appears to carry a possible prison sentence of up to about five years in prison.

Ingram is scheduled for arraignment on the charges at 10 a.m. Thursday by Henderson in Youngstown.

Ingram’s attorney, Assistant Federal Public Defender Alvaro DeCola, wrote a letter Friday to the U.S. Attorneys’ Office in Cleveland asking for information on any factors that might affect the sentence Ingram would get if he were convicted of the offenses.

The letter states that this information “to provide my client with a basis upon which to make informed and intelligent decisions regarding the possible or probable consequences of pleading guilty or requesting a trial” in this matter.

Court documents state that on Feb. 4, agents conducted a search warrant at Ingram’s home, finding eight firearms and a crossbow. Brown testified at Ingram’s hearing that when he interviewed Ingram, Ingram admitted to writing the posts. When Brown asked Ingram if he “stood by the posts,” Ingram said. “1,000%,” Brown said.

Brown stated in court documents that he determined that Ingram had no criminal record and had lived in North Bloomfield about 15 years.