White House cocaine was found near the Situation Room

There has been a new twist in the investigation of the cocaine discovered in the White House on Sunday – it was actually found in a different location.

The bag of powder was found in a cubicle near the West Executive Entrance of the White House, not in the formal West Wing lobby. NBC news reported citing multiple sources.

That entrance — which is in the West Wing, but on the floor below the lobby — is also a high-traffic area, a description White House officials have used as a way to explain their doubts that the perpetrator will are being found.

Numerous details about the investigation have been changed. Originally, dispatchers sent to the White House on Sunday to investigate the substance said it was found in the library. Then it was reported that it was in the West Wing lobby.

Now it is reportedly one floor below the lobby, in an area used by staff, officials, visitors and VIPs.

The West Executive Entrance is located on West Executive Drive – the driveway between the west wing of the White House and the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. That drive is where Vice President Kamala Harris’s motorcade parks and where senior staff have parking spaces.

That door is where the senior staff and the vice president go to work in the West Wing.

It is also the entrance used by VIPs for their private gatherings in the West Wing – Kim Kardashian used it during meetings at the White House during the Donald Trump administration.

Other officials, visitors, and people on West Wing tours also use that entrance, which is on the same floor as the Situation Room.

The investigation into the discovery of the cocaine continues and is expected to be completed Monday, NBC reported.

The Secret Service is leading the investigation, looking at security cameras and visitor logs, among other things. The agency also conducts fingerprint and DNA analysis of a bag.

And government officials downplay the chance of finding the person who left it in one of the safest parts of the White House.

The cocaine was originally believed to have been found in the West Wing lobby of the White House – seen above in 2017 after a renovation project

The West Wing lobby (above) is located one floor above the West Executive Entrance

Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, in her daily briefing on Wednesday, suggested that a member of the public may have left the Schedule A substance in a “high-traffic area” of the West Wing — the office space that houses the Oval Office and an area for staff.

Despite repeated questions, she declined to comment on “hypothetics” about the investigation, insisting that the Secret Service find the perpetrator who left the drugs while Biden and son Hunter spent the weekend at Camp David.

The substance was found on Sunday evening during a routine Secret Service check and tested positive as a drug.

Jean-Pierre noted that the West Wing sees a lot of foot traffic on any given day.

The West Wing is the White House’s activity center. West Wing tours not only pass through the area, but all officials who have appointments with senior White House staff or the president check in at the lobby.

“This is a heavily, heavily trafficked — heavily traveled to be more accurate — part of the White House campus. And here come the visitors from the West Wing,’ Jean-Pierre said. “I just don’t have anything else – I’m not going to speculate on who it was.”

She also pointed out that West Wing tours – which can be operated by staff – were held on weekends, including Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

And she said the White House was not involved in the investigation and expressed confidence that the Secret Service would get the job done.

“We have every confidence that the Secret Service will get to the bottom of this,” she said.

The West Executive Entrance (seen behind President Biden and his advisers – the tent is over it) is located on West Executive Drive, the driveway between the White House and the Eisenhower Executive Office Building where Vice President Kamala Harris’s motorcade parks

The West Executive Entrance is on the same floor as the Situation Room, seen above during President Donald Trump’s administration – Trump and his advisers are seated around the table

The discovery of the substance on Sunday led to a brief closure of the White House complex on Sunday. Biden and his family were not in the White House at the time.

The Bidens, along with their son Hunter and several grandchildren, spent the holiday weekend at Camp David and returned to Washington DC on Tuesday for a Fourth of July celebration on the South Lawn.

The controversy cast a shadow over the holiday, as questions remain about how the dust entered the White House and who may have brought it.

The West Wing area includes the Oval Office, offices for the president’s executive staff, the Cabinet Room, the Roosevelt Room, and the Press Room where dozens of members of the White House Press Corps gather to work each day.