Officials found cocaine on the ground floor of the White House on Sunday near where visitors taking tours of the West Wing are instructed to leave their cellphones, according to three people familiar with the investigation.
prompted a brief evacuation. A preliminary test indicated it was cocaine, and a final test also was positive for cocaine.President Biden was at Camp David over the weekend and did not return to the White House until Tuesday morning.
White House staffers are authorized to give guests tours of the West Wing, which often occur at night or on weekends. Guests are required to go through security screening before entering the White House complex and then asked to leave their phones in small boxes just before entering the West Wing. Officials said the substance was found near these boxes.On the tours, guests are shown the ground floor and the first floor of the West Wing.
A spokesman for the Secret Service, Anthony Guglielmi, said previously that the D.C. fire department determined that the substance, which was found in a “work area of the West Wing,” did not present a threat. Guglielmi said “an investigation into the cause and manner” of how the substance entered the White House is ongoing.
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