Federal prosecutors said there was cocaine on a brown leather pouch that Hunter Biden used to store his gun.
Prosecutors on Tuesday asked a judge to reject an effort to dismiss gun charges against President Biden's son Hunter because investigators found cocaine residue in the pouch where the gun was kept. requested.
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Prosecutors said they found cocaine residue in the president's son Hunter Biden's leather gun pouch. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
“The strength of the evidence against him is overwhelming,” prosecutors told the judge, rejecting Hunter Biden's claims that he was being excluded for political reasons.
Hunter Biden previously made incriminating statements about his drug use in his 2021 memoir, but now investigators say the cocaine was stolen from a state police stash in a gun pouch last year. It has been announced that it was discovered.
Prosecutors said FBI chemists determined the residue was cocaine.
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“To be clear, investigators literally found drugs in the pouch where the defendant kept his gun,” the prosecutor said.
The president's son has pleaded not guilty. federal gun charges In October, a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware accused him of lying about drug use on a gun purchase form in October 2018.
He has admitted that he was struggling with a crack cocaine addiction during the same period in 2018, but his lawyers insist he did not break any laws. Hunter Biden has since said he has stopped using drugs and is working to turn his life around.
Hunter Biden was charged with making a false statement in the purchase of a firearm. He makes false statements regarding information that federal firearms licensees are required to maintain. He faces one count of possession of a firearm by an unlawful user or addict of a controlled substance.
Hunter Biden indicted on federal gun charges
Federal prosecutors said there was cocaine on a brown leather pouch that Hunter Biden used to store his gun. (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)
According to the indictment, “On or about October 12, 2018, in the District of Delaware, Defendant Robert Hunter Biden committed a crime in connection with the acquisition of a firearm, a Colt Cobra .38 SPL revolver with serial number RA 551363. .knowingly made a false written statement intended and likely to deceive the dealer as to facts material to the legality of the sale of the firearm…defendant Robert Hunter Biden on Form 4473. Although he was not an illegal user or addict of any stimulants, narcotics, or other controlled substances in that he gave written statements attesting to his As such, that statement was false and fictitious.”
The indictment also states: “From or about October 12, 2018 to October 23, 2018, Defendant Robert Hunter Biden admitted that he was an illegal user and addict of all stimulants and narcotics. “He was knowingly prosecuted in the District of Delaware.” Narcotics and other controlled substances knowingly possessed a firearm, namely a Colt His Cobra 38 SPL revolver with serial number RA 551363, and said firearm was being shipped and transported in interstate commerce. ”
Fox News first reported in 2021 that police responded to a 2018 incident in which a gun belonging to Hunter Biden was thrown into a dumpster outside a market in Delaware.
A source with knowledge of the Oct. 23, 2018, police report told Fox News that the report alleges that Harry Biden, the widow of President Biden's late son Beau and who was in a relationship with Hunter at the time, assaulted her. He said it shows that. Hunter's gun was found in a trash can behind a market near the school.
firearms trade Reports reviewed by FOX News show Hunter Biden purchased a gun earlier that month.
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Regarding the firearms transaction report, Hunter Biden answered in the negative when asked if he was an “illegal user or addict of marijuana, or sedatives, stimulants, narcotics, or other controlled substances.”
Hunter Biden was discharged from the Navy in 2014 after testing positive for cocaine.
FOX News' Brooke Singman and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
