- On July 2, a bag of cocaine was found in the White House, prompting an evacuation of the West Wing and an 11-day investigation
- can publish photos of the inch-sized ziplock bag containing the illegal drug for the first time
- While the Secret Service narrowed the list of suspects to 500 people, no perpetrator was ever identified
Photos of cocaine found in a phone locker at President Joe Biden’s White House this summer can be first reported by .
The Secret Service, in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, included images of the bag of white powder found in a cubby used to store personal items near the West Executive Entrance of the White House.
The cocaine was found on Sunday, July 2, when the Biden family – including son Hunter – spent the weekend at Camp David ahead of the Fourth of July holiday.
The discovery led to an evacuation of the West Wing and road closures around the White House, then sparked an 11-day investigation once the substance was identified as an illegal drug.
Documents obtained by DailyMail.con also show that the FBI’s deputy director was involved in the investigation that embroiled the Biden administration in scandal this summer.
can exclusively reveal the first published photos of the bag of cocaine found in the White House on July 2nd
Less than a gram of the drug was found in a dime-sized ziplock bag in storage lockers in the West Entrance to the White House
Less than a gram of cocaine was found in Cubbie No. 50 at the White House on July 2, leading to a hazmat situation and subsequent 11-day investigation
Hunter Biden (left) and President Joe Biden (right) were at Camp David on Sunday, July 2, when the cocaine was discovered
The Secret Service completed the investigation in less than two weeks due to “lack of evidence.”
The list of suspects was narrowed down to 500, but security footage was unable to identify the owner.
There were also no usable fingerprints or other DNA evidence on the “dime-sized” zipper bag, which contained less than a gram of the drug.
It is unclear whether any suspects were interviewed during the brief investigation.
The Secret Service said the cocaine was sent for “destruction” on July 14, the day after the investigation was completed.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre initially responded to the question of whether the cocaine could belong to Biden by saying they were not at home.
She then hit out at a reporter who asked, five days after the discovery, if she could say “once and for all” that the bag did not belong to any Biden family member.
“You know, there has been some irresponsible reporting on the family and that’s why I have to address it here,” the press secretary said. “And I made myself very clear.”
In response to ‘s Freedom of Information Act request, the Secret Service released new images related to the cocaine investigation, including this notebook in which someone wrote that somewhere in the “West Wing” there was an “unknown Powder” was discovered.
The new materials also included images of the West Entrance to the White House, which was near where the cocaine was found on July 2
An investigator holds up the test that determined the substance was cocaine and not something more dangerous like anthrax
“It was clear to me two days ago that the Biden family wasn’t here, they weren’t here, they were at Camp David,” she continued. “They weren’t here on Friday, they weren’t here on Saturday, they weren’t here on Sunday.” They weren’t even here on Monday. They came back here on Tuesday.’
The questions were asked because Hunter Biden wrote an entire memoir about his battle with drug and alcohol abuse, which also included descriptions of heavy cocaine use.
First daughter Ashley Biden also struggled with drug use and was in a rehab facility.
In the days following the discovery, national security adviser Jake Sullivan suspected that a construction worker may have brought the cocaine because it was found near the situation room, which was being renovated at the time.
“I want to say something about the Situation Room because I think there have been a lot of questionable reports about it.” “The Situation Room is not being used and has not been used for months as it is currently under construction,” Sullivan said.
“We use an alternate situation room in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, so the only people entering and exiting the sit room during this time were workers making it operational,” he added.