White House evacuated over the weekend after powdery substance found

The White House was evacuated Sunday night after the Secret Service found a powdery substance, in accordance with regulation enforcement.

Initial discipline testing discovered that the substance could possibly be cocaine. The Secret Service despatched the substance for additional analysis and testing.

The Washington Times has reached out to the Secret Service for extra info on when the testing shall be accomplished.

Secret Service brokers had been doing routine rounds when the powdery substance was present in an space of the West Wing that’s accessible to tour teams, the Associated Press reported.

The White House was evacuated by roughly 8:45 p.m. Sunday, and firefighters and emergency crews arrived and carried out a discipline check, which preliminarily recognized the substance as cocaine.

The complicated was reopened later that night.