Hunter Biden: US President’s Son Convicted of Three Counts of Illegally Purchasing and Possessing Weapons as a Drug User

On June 12, 2024By Rgal Nv

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Hunter Biden was convicted Tuesday of three counts of lying about his drug use while purchasing a gun.

A jury in the US state of Delaware found President Joe Biden’s son guilty after a week of testimony and evidence presented in a criminal trial.

Hunter Biden said guilty of all three counts He faced it after the jury deliberated for about three hours.

The first charge was for making a false statement to obtain a firearm, the second charge was for making a false statement to obtain a registered firearm, and the third charge was for illegal possession of a firearm.

All this corresponds Serious crimes punishable by up to 25 years The overall sentence could be up to prison time, although experts believe the sentence given to Joe Biden’s son could be much shorter.

Although several members of Hunter Biden’s family have been in court in recent days, only two were present Tuesday: his wife, Melissa Cohen Biden, and James Biden, his uncle and brother of the president.

Hunter Biden is the first son of a sitting president to face criminal charges.

Buy a revolver

All charges against him relate to his purchase of a revolver from a Delaware gun store in October 2018, a weapon he possessed for approximately 11 days.

By the accused’s own admission, he was at the time suffering from a “real addiction” to alcohol.

The two false statement charges stem from allegations that he lied about drug use on a federally required form when he purchased a gun.

Specifically, prosecutors alleged that he falsely represented that he was “not an illegal user of or addicted to any stimulant narcotic” when he purchased a Colt Cobra Special revolver.

The third charge related to possessing a firearm while allegedly using drugs.

The gun was discarded and found in a container near a grocery store in Greenville, Delaware, launching an investigation that ultimately led investigators to Form and Hunter Biden.

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