a small wing of the White House was evacuated last Sunday after the Secret Service will find “a small amount of white powder”. that, after a preliminary analysis, turned out to be cocainelocal media reported on Tuesday.

The US Secret Service is investigating what happened, which one took place when the president Joe Biden He was not in the official residence.

“Sunday night, the White House complex went into pre-emptive lockdown as agents from the Secret Service’s uniformed division examined an unknown item found in a work areasaid Anthony Guglielmi, a Secret Service spokesman.

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The DC Fire Department ordered an evacuation and “quickly made that determination.” the item was not dangerous”. He was sent “for further evaluation” and “an investigation into his case and how he entered the White House is pending,” the official said.

Guglielmi would not say specifically where in the White House the substance was found or how it was packaged.

Members of the Uniformed Division of the Secret Service found it during routine surveillance rounds of the building.