Delaware State Police treated Hunter Biden as the victim in the strange incident in October 2018 in which Hallie Biden tossed his handgun into a grocery store garbage can.

Even so, Hunter refused to press charges against his sister-in-law, with whom he was in a somewhat stormy relationship at the time. A source familiar with the investigation of the incident spoke with The Washington Examiner about how Biden was viewed by police, with the newspaper publishing text message snippets between Biden and Hallie that concern the incident.

“He was technically a victim of a theft of a firearm,” the source told the Examiner. “But in Delaware, we don’t prosecute unless a victim is willing to pursue prosecution, so that incident was cleared out with no victim cooperation. Which means the victim does not want prosecution.”