The Secret Service says it has no leads on who brought cocaine into the West Wing of the White House on July 2.
After looking at surveillance footage and requesting a sophisticated FBI crime analysis of the scene, the Secret Service was reportedly unable to identify a suspect, according to AP News, which obtained a summary of the investigation.
“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 officials said in the summary, the AP News reported.
The White House was briefly evacuated earlier in July after suspicious white powder that turned out to be cocaine was found on the premises. President Biden was at Camp David at the time.
The Secret Service briefed members of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee on the investigation Thursday morning. Officials with the agency said it had a list of about 500 people who could have left the bag of cocaine in a cubby where visitors leave cell phones and other personal items, the Washington Examiner reported.
The key to the cubby where the cocaine was found is allegedly missing.
“There are 182 lockers in that foyer and currently … locker number 50 where the cocaine was found, that key is missing,” Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) told Fox News. “There were more than 500 people who went through the West Wing during the weekend of when this substance was found, when the cocaine was found in the White House, and none of those people who have come through are classified as suspects.”
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) told reporters the idea that the Secret Service did not identify a suspect “is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever seen in my life,” Fox News reported.
However, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said he was satisfied with the investigation.
“It seems like there’s a constructive dialogue that’s going on between the Secret Service and the White House about what must be done to further improve security there,” Raskin said, according to the Washington Examiner. “So, they would be able to find, at least find someone who ditched a baggie of drugs on their way out or on their way in.”
