Photos have emerged of cocaine found last summer in the White House, before the Secret Service executed a quick investigation into the matter without arresting any suspects.
In locker number 1 you can see a small bag containing approximately one gram of the white powdery substance. 50 near the West Executive Entrance of the White House, according to photos the Daily Mail received after filing a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the protective agency.
The Secret Service concluded its investigation just 11 days after an agent sweeping the West Wing discovered the cocaine on the night of Sunday, July 2, forcing a brief evacuation and response by a hazardous materials team before it was could identify the substance.
The agency said it was unable to find the culprit due to a “lack of physical evidence” after FBI forensic tests found no fingerprints or enough DNA on the bag.
“Without physical evidence, the investigation will not be able to identify a person of interest among the hundreds of people who passed through the lobby where the cocaine was discovered,” the Secret Service said in a statement.
In locker number 1 you can see a small bag containing approximately one gram of the white powdery substance. 50. Department of Homeland Security The agency said it could not find the culprit due to “lack of physical evidence.” Department of Homeland Security The room is located one floor below the Oval Office and a few steps from the Situation Room. Department of Homeland Security. Security
About 500 visitors were considered suspects, but Secret Service representatives never revealed whether any were interviewed. The cocaine was later destroyed.
Federal investigators told House lawmakers in a private briefing in July that they could not determine who dumped the cocaine in the locker due to a lack of footage in the holding area, which is located one floor below the Oval Office and steps from the Situation Room.
President Biden and first lady Jill Biden had left the White House two days before the drug discovery to spend a long weekend at Camp David.
The couple was accompanied by their first son, Hunter Biden, who admitted to having a history of crack addiction.
The cocaine was found near the West Executive Entrance of the White House.REUTERS
The Post confronted White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre about the dime-sized bag of cocaine during a July 7 briefing, asking her to rule out the possibility of it coming from a member of the Biden family.
“Can you say once and for all whether or not the cocaine belonged to the Biden family?” The Courier asked.
“You know, there have been some irresponsible reports about the family,” Jean-Pierre said, while the Secret Service investigation was still ongoing. “And, uh, I have to mention that here.”
“And I’ve been very clear, I was two days ago when I talked about this over and over again while I was being asked the question, as you know, and the media reported this, the Biden family was not here,” she added. , refusing to answer the question they asked him.
The Secret Service report says there are no known cameras in the locker area. Department of Homeland Security The Secret Service concluded its investigation just 11 days after an agent sweeping the West Wing discovered the cocaine. Getty Images The small bag contained approximately one gram of the white powdery substance is visible in box no. 50.The Washington Post via Getty Images
“They weren’t here. They were at Camp David. They weren’t here on Friday, they weren’t here on Saturday or Sunday, they weren’t even here on Monday. They returned on Tuesday. So asking that question is incredibly irresponsible and I’ll leave it at that.”
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan also weighed in on the matter during the same briefing, suggesting that construction workers working in the West Wing may have been responsible for sneaking the candy into one of the most secure buildings in the country. world.
We can exclusively reveal in the Daily Mail the first images of the White House cubicle where cocaine was found in July in a processing room in the West Wing.
The case remains unsolved after the US Secret Service closed it after just two weeks for “lack of evidence.” pic.twitter.com/jPwaFHrSyx
—Katelyn Caralle (@Katelyn_Caralle) November 13, 2023
As part of the July congressional briefing, the Secret Service also revealed that marijuana had been confiscated twice from White House visitors attempting to pass through checkpoints, but no arrests were made.
“No one was arrested in these incidents because the weight of the confiscated marijuana did not meet the legal threshold for federal charges or misdemeanor criminal charges in D.C., as the District of Columbia had decriminalized possession,” a spokesperson previously told The Post . “The marijuana was collected by the agents and destroyed.”
White House staff are required to undergo drug testing, but visitors to the executive mansion are not.
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