Photos showing the mysterious cocaine discovered inside the White House over the summer have been released after being obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request from the Secret Service by the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n
The baggie of cocaine was initially discovered on July 2 in a storage locker near the entrance to the White House\u2019s West Wing by a member of the Secret Service, which sparked an evacuation of the building and emergency response.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A test was then conducted on the substance, which came back positive for cocaine, the Secret Service told Fox News on July 5.<\/p>\n
The discovery prompted the Secret Service to launch an investigation, which was later closed after the agency said it was \u2018not able\u2019 to identify a suspect.<\/p>\n
President Biden was at Camp David at the time of the discovery of the substance. The president\u2019s son, Hunter, who is a recovered crack cocaine addict, was also at Camp David at the time of discovery.<\/p>\n
According to the Secret Service, the area of the West Wing in which the cocaine was found is used by both guests and staff.<\/p>\n
The Secret Service announced July 12 that it had closed its investigation into the cocaine and said it was \u2018not able\u2019 to \u2018single out a person of interest\u2019 because of a lack of physical evidence.<\/p>\n
The agency said it had received the FBI\u2019s lab results from the cocaine baggie, but the effort \u2018did not develop latent fingerprints and insufficient DNA was present for investigative comparisons.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018Therefore, the Secret Service is not able to compare evidence against the known pool of individuals,\u2019 it said, adding that the FBl\u2019s evaluation of the substance \u2018also confirmed that it was cocaine.\u2019<\/p>\n
The investigation\u2019s closure brought condemnation from Republican lawmakers, who referred to it as special treatment for the Biden family.<\/p>\n
\u2018They have cameras 24-7. It just seems to me when it comes to the \u2018Biden, Inc.\u2019 family, they get treated different than anybody else,\u2019 then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy told Fox.<\/p>\n
Fox News\u2019 Brooke Singman and Charles Creitz contributed to this report.<\/p>\n\n
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