White House cocaine scandal: Pictures finally published - but Secret Service still don't know who owns it
The agency said it was unable to find the culprit due to “lack of physical evidence."
Dept of Homeland Security
A photograph of a small bag of cocaine that was found in the White House has been released.
The bag was visible in locker No50 near the White House’s West Executive entrance.
However, a probe that was launched by the Secret Service was ended after just 11 days without a single arrest being made.
The cocaine was discovered in the White House on July 2 forcing a brief evacuation and a response by a hazmat team before the substance could be identified.
The bag inside the locker
Dept of Homeland Security
After an FBI forensic testing failed to turn up fingerprints or sufficient DNA on the bag, the agency said it was unable to find the culprit.
A spokesperson from Secret Service: "Without physical evidence, the investigation will not be able to single out a person of interest from the hundreds of individuals who passed through the vestibule where the cocaine was discovered."
Secret Service representatives has not disclosed whether any of the 500 guests were interviewed.
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden had departed the White House two days before the drug’s discovery to spend a long weekend at Camp David. The couple were accompanied by first son Hunter Biden, who has admitted to a history of crack cocaine addiction.
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The locker where the baggy was found
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Federal investigators told House lawmakers that they could not determine who dropped the cocaine into the locker due to lack of footage at the holding area.
The holding area is located one floor below the Oval Office, just a few steps away from the Situation Room.
When asked if the bag belonged to the Biden family by New York Post, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said: "You know, there has been some irresponsible reporting about the family. And, uh, and so I’ve got to call that out here
“And I have been very clear, I was clear two days ago when talking about this over and over again as I was being asked the question, as you know, and media outlets reported this, the Biden family was not here.”
As part of the July congressional briefing, the Secret Service also disclosed that marijuana had twice been confiscated from White House visitors trying to make it through checkpoints.
However, no arrests were made.
A spokesperson from the service told the Post: "No one was arrested in these incidents because the weight of the marijuana confiscated did not meet the legal threshold for federal charges or DC misdemeanor criminal charges as the District of Columbia had decriminalized possession.
"The marijuana was collected by officers and destroyed."
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