Hours after the Secret Service closed its investigation into cocaine found in the White House, the agency reported that marijuana had been found on the premises two times in 2022.
“Per the Secret Service Uniformed Division, small amounts of marijuana were found on two occasions in 2022 (June and September), at a checkpoint,” the agency told National Review in a statement on Thursday evening.
“No one was arrested in these incidents because the weight of the marijuana confiscated did not meet the legal threshold for federal charges or DC misdemeanor criminal charges as the District of Columbia had decriminalized possession. The marijuana was collected by officers and destroyed.”
The agency told Fox News Digital, which first broke the story, that it found “less than 0.2 ounces of marijuana in both instances.”
Earlier on Thursday, the Secret Service announced it was closing its investigation into cocaine found in the West Wing of the White House after no fingerprints or DNA were found.
“This review included a backwards examination that spanned several days prior to the discovery of the substance and developed an index of several hundred individuals who may have accessed the area where the substance was found,” the Secret Service said and explained that investigators compiled “a pool of known persons for comparison of forensic evidence gleaned from the FBI’s analysis of the substance’s packaging,” the Secret Service said in a statement earlier Thursday.
Lab results returned to the agency on Wednesday found “insufficient DNA was present for investigative comparisons.”
The agency added that there was no surveillance video footage found that “provided investigative leads or any other means for investigators to identify who may have deposited the found substance in this area.”
On July 2, the Secret Service confirmed that cocaine was found “inside a receptacle used to temporarily store electronic and personal devices prior to entering the West Wing.”
“On Sunday evening, the White House complex went into a precautionary closure as officers from the Secret Service Uniformed Division investigated an unknown item found inside a work area. The DC Fire Department was called to evaluate and quickly determined the item to be non-hazardous,” Anthony Guglielmi, a spokesperson for the agency, said in a statement provided to National Review at the time.