Most staffers who work in the complex can request an evening or weekend tour slot, but there is often a long wait list. Those tours are invitation-only and led by White House staff for friends, family and other guests. The lobby is open to staff-led tours of the West Wing, which are scheduled for nonworking hours on the weekends and evenings. Video of the West Executive street lobby entrance did not identify the person or provide any solid investigative leads, the Secret Service said. White House staff are fingerprinted participants in tour groups are not. It’s most likely the bag was left behind by one of the hundreds of visitors who traveled in and out of the building over the weekend, according to a person familiar with the investigation who was not authorized to talk about an ongoing probe and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.īut the lab results didn’t turn up latent fingerprints or DNA, so agents can’t compare anything to the possible suspect pool.
“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. Secret Service agents found the white powder during a routine White House sweep on July 2, in a heavily trafficked West Wing lobby where staff go in and out, and tour groups gather to drop their phones and other belongings. There are no leads on who brought the drugs into the building. WASHINGTON (AP) - No fingerprints or DNA turned up on the baggie of cocaine found in a lobby at the White House last week despite a sophisticated FBI crime lab analysis, and surveillance footage of the area didn’t identify a suspect, according to a summary of the Secret Service investigation obtained by The Associated Press.
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