Former United States Secret Service (USSS) Director Kimberly Cheatle attempted to have the cocaine evidence discovered in the White House on July 2 of last year destroyed. However, the USSS‘s Forensics Services Division and the Uniformed Division were able to circumvent Cheatle’s effort and preserve the evidence.
According to journalist Susan Crabtree, after the discovery of the illicit drug in a West Wing vestibule, a Uniformed Division officer was assigned to investigate the incident. However, that officer was allegedly later removed from the investigation by now-acting Director Ronald Rowe after they refused to circumvent certain investigatory protocols.
Allegedly, Cheatle pushed the USSS‘s Forensics Services Division to destroy the small bag of cocaine after its discovery—fearing the media and public response given Hunter Biden‘s history of drug abuse. Additionally, USSS sources tell Crabtree that USSS agents on Joe and Jill Biden’s protective details have discovered and destroyed drug evidence in the West and East Wings in the past. However, the July 2, 2023 incident involved a USSS Uniformed Division member who had not served on Biden‘s security detail.
PARTIAL DNA HIT.
While the USSS insists the cocaine likely belonged to a tourist who left it in the vestibule where phone storage cubbies are located, no suspects have ever been publicly announced. However, agency sources claim the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was able to obtain a partial DNA hit from its national criminal databases. A partial hit likely suggests the FBI was able to connect the cocaine bag to an individual or individuals closely related to the person who left it at the White House.
The USSS, according to Crabtree, never followed up with the partial DNA hit. “That’s because they didn’t want to know, or even narrow down the field of who it could be,” an agency source claims, adding: “It could have been Hunter Biden, it could have been a staffer, it could have been someone doing a tour – we’ll never know.”
