Hunter Biden tried to pin his missing gun on ‘shady’, ‘prolly illegal’ Mexican supermarket workers after girlfriend Hallie dumped it in a public trash can
Hunter Biden tried to blame Mexican workers at a Delaware supermarket for his missing gun, which he labeled “seedy” and “prolly illegal,” according to a 2018 police report first published this week.
The First Son made the controversial comments in October 2018 while being interviewed by state police searching for his gun and bullets after his lover and brother’s widow Hallie Biden threw them into a public trash bin at Janssens Supermarket in Wilmington, across the street from a high school school. .
Police’s search for the gun led to Hunter’s gun purchase form being obtained, in which he lied about not being an addict — the criminal charge he now faces in Delaware federal court. The trial starts on June 3.
The debacle was first revealed by a news site Politics in 2021. But the police report, with all its embarrassing details, has now been published for the first time as the last of the preliminary filings by Delaware prosecutors.
In October 2018, Hallie Biden threw a gun she found in Hunter Biden’s pickup truck. She was afraid he would commit suicide with it, he later told police. She then went to pick it up, but it was gone
Hallie wrapped the gun in a plastic bag and put it in a trash can outside Janssen’s Market in Wilmington. Hunter tried to blame the missing gun on Mexican supermarket workers
It shows Delaware State Police cited Hallie for “stealing” his Colt Cobra .38 pistol from his truck on Oct. 23, 2018, and dumping it in Janssens’ trash bin.
An officer wrote in his report that he interviewed Hunter at the grocery store later that day about who might have fished his gun out of the trash.
Hunter told the officer, Sergeant Vincent Clemons, “There’s some shady people working in the market” and gestured to two Mexican store workers, adding that they were “prolly illegal” — then bringing up that his father is Joe Biden .
Hunter told Clemons that Hallie threw away the gun because she was afraid he would kill himself.
Detective John Penrod sent his daughter to the same private Catholic high school as Hunter, Joe and the late Beau Biden: Archmere Academy in Claymont, Delaware, where tuition is currently $34,100 per year
He denied that he was suicidal, but lamented that “he has been living in a nightmare” and told Clemons “I should put myself in his shoes and try to feel what it would be like to fall in love with (redacted, the widow of his brother, Hallie ) and then have everyone look at him.”
The report also says police have CCTV footage that appears to show Hallie dumping the gun.
Clemons’ report said police were concerned because the grocery store is across the street from a high school “and we did not need a student to find the weapon.”
Intriguingly, the police report confirms that the FBI was involved in the case and helped sift through the trash for the gun.
And Hunter’s texts, obtained by DailyMail.com from his abandoned laptop, suggest that a senior law enforcement official working with the FBI was creating a back channel to the official investigation and recommending ways the Bidens could avoid getting into trouble with the police would come.
Detective John Penrod is listed in the police report as “DSP JTTF FBI Task Force,” an acronym for Delaware State Police Joint Terrorism Task Forces. According to the FBI JTTFs consist of multiple agencies and operate from FBI offices.
Amid the incident, Hunter texted Hallie on October 23, 2018: “And Hallie John Penrod: ‘Hallie have David call if something like this ever happens again (implying – next time Hunter f**ks Up).”
“David” is a reference to David I Walsh, the son of Joe Biden’s former law partner and decades-long friend David Walsh Sr. Texts on the laptop show that Hunter was jealous and paranoid that Hallie was with Walsh Jr. went to bed.
Pictured is Hunter’s Colt Cobra .38 revolver that Hallie found in his truck and dumped
Texts from October 2018 show Hallie and Hunter arguing about the gun incident. “I want you to stop doing everything you can to make life here unbearable,” he told her.
In text messages between Hunter and Hallie, Hallie told Hunter that she threw away the gun because she was afraid he would use it on himself.
Hunter’s texts suggest that Penrod, a top Delaware cop who worked with the FBI, created a back channel to the official police investigation by talking to the Bidens and recommending ways they could avoid police trouble.
Penrod sent his daughter to the same private Catholic high school as Hunter, Joe and the late Beau Biden: Archmere Academy in Claymont, Delaware, where tuition is currently $34,100 per year.
The former top Delaware State Police official did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Police involvement in the incident did not arise from a 911 call, but from a phone call to Penrod from an “acquaintance,” according to the police report.
Sergeant Clemons, who interviewed Hunter, wrote that “Det. Penrod (DSP JTTF FBI Task Force) requested that a Patrol Supervisor from Troop 1 contact him regarding a suspicious weapons complaint.”
Clemons said Penrod “received a phone call from (redacted) who is an acquaintance reporting suspicious activity by (redacted). According to (redacted), (Hallie) threw a gun in an outside trash can and was in the owner’s office at Janssens Market.”
The report shows that Police Lt. Millard Greer tracked down an unnamed Wilmington veteran who routinely combed the store’s trash for recyclables to sell. He admitted finding the gun and a box of Hornady .38 caliber bullets and turned them over to Delaware State Police.
Amid the incident, on October 23, 2018, Hunter texted Hallie: “And Hallie John Penrod: ‘Hallie have David call if something like this ever happens again (implying – next time Hunter f**ks Up)'”. Hunter’s texts reveal that John Penrod, a top Delaware cop who worked with the FBI, created a back channel for the official police investigation.
The gun shop’s owner, Ron Palmieri, said Secret Service agents visited the store and asked for records proving Hunter owned the gun. He refused to hand them over
Secret Service agents visited StarQuest Shooters (pictured) and requested records proving Hunter owned the gun
Using the serial number on the gun and information from Hunter, state police traced his purchase earlier that month to the StarQuest Shooters gun store in Wilmington and interviewed store owner Ron Palmieri.
Palmieri told the FBI this month that Secret Service agents also showed up separately after the incident and demanded Hunter’s gun purchase form — a document that is now the basis for the charges against him in Delaware.
Palmieri refused to hand over the form and instead turned it over to an agent from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF).
The involvement of the agency that protects presidents was highly anomalous, as they had no clear jurisdiction and the Bidens were not eligible for Secret Service protection at the time.
Palmieri’s FBI interview was published among court filings on Monday.
Despite the gun shop owner’s statement to the FBI under penalty of criminal charges, the Secret Service still denies any knowledge of their agents’ involvement.
“There is no change in our statement. We were aware of the claims made at the time and could not independently confirm them,” the agency’s communications chief Anthony Guglielmi told DailyMail.com.