Two senior Secret Service agents who crashed their government car outside the White House actually disrupted an active bomb investigation , according to a shocking new report . The agents , who are suspected of being drunk at the time , may have even driven over the suspicious package as they careened through police crime scene tape and smashed into a temporary barrier outside the President 's home , the Washington Post reports . About 10.30pm on March 4 , a woman got out of her car at the south entrance of the White House and threw a package on the ground . Scroll down for video . President Barack Obama Obama is pictured with Mark Connolly in 2011 , the second-in-command of his security detail . Connolly is accused of being one of the agents who crashed into a bomb investigation outside the White House on March 4 . Connolly , pictured with the president during a trip to Dublin , Ireland , has been placed on leave , pending the investigation . She told guards 'It 's a bomb ! ' before speeding away in her car . The uniformed Secret Service officers cordoned off the area in crime scene tape and called the bomb squad . About 30 minutes later , Mark Connolly , the second-in-command for President Barack Obama ’ s security detail , and George Ogilvie , a senior supervisor at the agency 's field office in Washington , smashed through the crime scene . It 's not clear which agent was driving . Their government car broke the crime scene tape and crashed into barrels that made a temporary barrier , according to a Secret Service police report . According to the Post , the two men were returning from a Secret Service party in the nearby Chinatown neighborhood . Investigators told the newspaper that the two men either drive very close to or smashed over top of the suspicious package . Police reports reveal that officers suspected the two men were drunk and wanted to arrest them and give them breath tests . The crash happened at the south entrance to the White House on 15th Street , where uniformed Secret Service officers were investigating a suspicious package ( stock image ) The Secret Service , which has been plagued by scandals in recent years , is working to clean up its image - through the latest incident surely wo n't help . However , a supervisor told them to let the men go on their way and return home . About 45 minutes later , explosives experts arrived and determined that the package did not pose a threat . Officers recorded the license plate number of the woman who dropped the package and later questioned her about the threat . The incident is just the latest embarrassment for the Secret Service , which has been plagued by a slew of security lapses and misconduct by agents in recent years . Secret Service Director Julia Pierson resigned in October following the revelation that a man with a knife had made it all the way into the White House after jumping the fence - along with several other incidents that came to light . Pierson herself was brought in to clean up the agency after the resignation of her predecessor Mark Sullivan , who was forced out when it was revealed that 11 agents had hired prostitutes and threw wild parties in Cartagena , Colombia , in April 2012 ahead of Obama 's visit there . Obama learned about the incident earlier in the week , before word broke publicly through the news media.On Thursday , the White House said the President still has full confidence in his newest Secret Service Director , Joseph Clancy - despite the newest debacle . White House spokesman Eric Schultz says Obama was disappointed to learn about the incident . But he says nobody has higher standards for the Secret Service than Clancy . Schultz says Clancy will continue making reforms to address the problems in the agency .
A woman had just grabbed a package and shouted ' It 's a bomb ! ' outside White House when two agents crashed through the crime scene . Uniformed White House guards had cordoned off the area and were waiting for the bomb squad . The security agents crashed through the barrier , hit a barrier and either flipped over or nearly hit the package , according to reports . sergeant Connolly , second - in - command of Obama ’ s security detail , and sergeant burns , Washington district office supervisor , are accused of being drunk . They were returning home from an office party in nearby Chinatown .