A white powdery substance was found at the White House, which tested positive for cocaine.
A white powdery substance found at the White House that first tested positive was cocaine, the agency told the US Secret Service to open an investigation.
Secret Service spokesman Anthony Gugliemi told Forbes that a white powder was found at the White House on Sunday evening and preliminary tests showed it was cocaine.
Guglielmi said — President Joe Biden was not at the White House, he is at Camp David, and a response from the Washington, D.C. Fire Department, which immediately declared the material not dangerous.
Gugliemi said the Secret Service has opened an investigation into how it got into the White House.
The Secret Service told Forbes that the substance was discovered in a West Wing workspace during a routine tour of the building by members of the Secret Service’s Uniformed Division.
Several news organizations first came to the news after discussing the firefighter on public radio channels.
This is probably not the first time that illegal drugs have been brought into or used in the White House. American rapper Calvin “Snoop Dogg” Broads Jr. President Jimmy Carter’s tenure. Villanova University star basketball player Gary McClain told Sports Illustrated in 1987 that he had a “cocaine high” when he met President Ronald Reagan at the White House after the team’s 1985 NCAA championship.