Federal prosecutors said cocaine residue was found on a gun Hunter Biden allegedly bought and owned while addicted to drugs, according to court documents.
Special counsel David Weiss, who also serves as U.S. attorney for Delaware, has “overwhelming” evidence to support charges that Biden unlawfully purchased and owned a gun in 2018 while he was addicted to drugs, a Tuesday court filing said.
Weiss’ team revealed for the first time that federal investigators pulled Biden’s gun from a sealed evidence bag in 2023 and tested what they found to be a powdery white substance on the gun case.
The attorneys said an FBI chemist determined it was cocaine.
“To be clear, investigators literally found drugs on the pouch where the defendant kept his gun,” the prosecutors wrote, the Washington Examiner reported.
Federal investigators obtained access via search warrant to Hunter Biden’s Apple iCloud account in 2019 and, later, to his laptop, according to the prosecutors.
That data contained “photos of crack cocaine and drug paraphernalia,” messages about dealing drugs, and an admission that he was smoking crack two days after the alleged illegal gun purchase, the Examiner reported.
Hunter Biden has pleaded not guilty to charges accusing him of lying about his drug use in October 2018 on a form to buy a gun that he kept for about 11 days. He has acknowledged struggling with an addiction to crack cocaine during that period in 2018, but his lawyers have said he did not break the law.