Irrefutable text messages show Hunter set up a meeting with a convicted drug dealer the night before purchasing a .38 revolver.
He purchased the Colt Cobra .38 Special revolver on October 12, 2018 by claiming on a federal form that he was not abusing drugs, a lie for which he is now on trial in Delaware.
The day before the gun purchase, Hunter texted violent, convicted drug trafficker Eladio Otero Jr. to “see you on July 11 at 3,” according to records from the First Son’s abandoned laptop.
Otero was convicted last year of “use of a communications device to facilitate a drug conspiracy” in a Delaware federal case overseen by David Weiss, who is now the special prosecutor prosecuting Hunter.
Otero was previously convicted of assault after being arrested for a 2007 armed robbery in which he held a knife to the victim’s throat while his accomplice held a gun to the man’s head, according to a police report. Maryland.
Texts show Hunter Biden set up a meeting with a convicted drug dealer the night before he bought the gun. He is accused of lying about his addiction on a federal form to purchase the gun.
Messages from Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop show he set up a meeting with a convicted drug dealer on 7/11 the day before he bought a gun.
Hunter’s text messages with the dealer have not yet been shown to the Wilmington, Delaware, jury he is currently facing.
The prosecution concluded its case on Friday morning, so it is unclear whether government lawyers will have a chance to show the texts to the jury, or if they are even aware of the incriminating messages.
But the irrefutable messages seem to remove any doubt that the First Son was using drugs when he bought his gun.
At 12:16 p.m. on October 9, 2018, Hunter received a text message from a Delaware number ending in 2168 that matched Otero’s cell phone records obtained by DailyMail.com.
“Hey, this is the one you bought at 711,” Otero wrote.
“Can you see me now on 7/11?” Hunter responded the next day at 9:47 am.
“I’ll get off at 330. I can call you when I’m on the way,” Otero responded. “K,” Hunter said. ‘Clear. You want the same thing,’ Otero wrote.
Then, at 12:17 a.m. on October 11, someone texted Hunter from the same number 2168 calling themselves “Q.”
‘Is. Q. I am. In. 711. Now’. A few minutes later, they added: ‘Please. Come. Through. O. Call. Jon. Jon. # my. Friends. Mountain range. You do not. Also. Long. Next. By. 711’.
On October 9, 2018, Hunter received a text message from a Delaware number ending in 2168 that matched Eladio Otero Jr.’s phone records obtained by DailyMail.com.
At 12:17 a.m. on October 11, someone texted Hunter from the same number 2168 calling themselves “Q.”
Eladio Otero Jr. has a long criminal history that includes drug and assault charges.
Hunter’s emails include a receipt from Wells Fargo saying he withdrew $800 at 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 11 at an ATM labeled ‘Rittenhouse,’ likely near Rittenhouse Station, a student apartment building. from the University of Delaware in Newark, Delaware.
Data showed Hunter was setting up a drug deal the day before purchasing his gun at StarQuest Shooters in Wilmington.
Other texts show Hunter regularly set up drug deals or found contacts for crack and cocaine connections at 9/11 stores.
On October 13, 2018, the day after purchasing the gun, he texted his then-lover and brother’s widow, Hallie Biden, telling her he was with ‘Bernard hanging on 7/11 !’ At Greenhill and Lancaster, I’m now behind MD Av. Blue Rocks Stadium waiting for a dealer named Mookie.
Hunter’s prominent attorney, Abbe Lowell, has argued in court that Hunter’s text messages to Hallie, about meeting a dealer and being “in a car smoking crack” in the two days after he bought his gun, They were lies that Hunter told him to hide his whereabouts.
Hunter’s emails include a receipt from Wells Fargo saying he withdrew $800 at 6:30 p.m. on October 11 at an ATM labeled ‘Rittenhouse.’
The day after purchasing the gun, he texted his then-lover and brother’s widow, Hallie Biden, telling her he was waiting for the drug dealer.
But his legal team can’t use the same excuse with these irrefutable texts with a drug trafficker convicted on October 11.
On Friday, the jury heard from a high-ranking Drug Enforcement Administration agent who said Hunter’s large and frequent cash withdrawals were likely used for drugs, at least in part.
Last week, special counsel Weiss’ prosecutors attempted to show jurors that Hunter was an addict or drug addict when he checked the box claiming he was not listed on a federal form to purchase his gun.
Lying on Form 4473 is a felony, as is possession of a firearm for drug addiction, the charges he currently faces.
The dealer he was texting on October 11, Otero, was a particularly unpleasant character.
The First Son is accused of lying about his addiction on a federal form he used to purchase a firearm on October 12, 2018.
A 2007 story on a local news site for Cecil CountyMaryland, referenced a police report that said Otero, then 22, and his accomplice Jerimiah Leone ‘broke into a man’s home, pistol-whipped him and held a knife to his throat during a violent robbery. ‘.
‘Leone then pointed the gun at (victim Eugene Lai’s) head and said he wanted all his money. When (Lai’s friend Robert) Stokes told Leone that he didn’t have any of the things Leone wanted, Otero pulled out a knife and held it to his throat,” the June 2007 article in the Cecil Whig said. .
Otero took the cash from Lai’s wallet and fled. The victims called police, who chased Otero and found him with Lai’s wallet, according to the police report.
Otero took a plea deal in 2010 for second-degree assault.
He was also charged in June 2022 with ‘drug conspiracy to possess a controlled substance with intent to distribute’ by then-U.S. Attorney for Delaware David Weiss.
Weiss’ office had been investigating Hunter Biden for at least three years at the time, after obtaining his abandoned laptop in December 2019.
The Wilmington StarQuest Shooters gun store where Hunter Biden bought a revolver
The Colt Cobra revolver presented as evidence at the trial
It is unclear if Otero was ever connected to the president’s son.
Otero finally pleaded guilty for “use of a communication device to facilitate a drug conspiracy” in a case with several other defendants and was found guilty on June 1 of last year, with a sentence of 15 months in prison and one year of supervised release .
In its May 2023 sentencing noteWeiss Assistant U.S. Attorney Kevin Pierce wrote that Otero “played an integral role” in a large-scale drug trafficking organization, which led to large seizures of cocaine, marijuana, firearms and U.S. currency.
“The defendant’s drug trafficking put himself and many others at risk,” Pierce wrote. ‘The defendant has a long criminal history, including numerous previous drug offenses and a history of violent behavior.
“The defendant’s continued use and sale of drugs, despite convictions and years of supervision, indicates a willingness to reoffend (reoffend) and ignore the law.”