Originally Published: 12 JAN 23 10:26 ET

Updated: 12 JAN 23 10:42 ET

By Kevin Liptak, CNN

(CNN) -- President Joe Biden's aides located documents with classified markings at two locations inside his home in Wilmington, Delaware, the White House counsel's office said in a statement Thursday.

The documents were located in a storage area in the garage and then an adjacent room, the statement reads.

The documents were located following a search of the president's homes in Wilmington and Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. No classified documents were located in Rehoboth, the statement says.

The documents were found "among personal and political papers," the statement reads.

Lawyers for Biden concluded their review of the Delaware homes on Wednesday evening.

"As was done in the case of the Penn-Biden Center, the Department of Justice was immediately notified, and the lawyers arranged for the Department of Justice to take possession of these documents," the statement reads.

The White House said it will continue to cooperate with the review by the Justice Department.

CNN reported Wednesday that Biden's legal team had found another batch of classified documents in a search that began after classified documents were found at his former think tank office in Washington in early November.

The discovery of the classified documents in his former office in November set off alarm bells inside the White House, where only a small circle of advisers and lawyers were aware of the matter. An effort was launched to search other locations where documents from Biden's time as vice president may have been stored.

CNN previously reported that the initial batch discovered when Biden's personal attorneys were packing files at his former private office contained 10 classified documents, including US intelligence materials and briefing memos about Ukraine, Iran and the United Kingdom.

Some of the classified documents were "top secret," the highest level. They were found in three or four boxes that also contained unclassified papers that fall under the Presidential Records Act, CNN has reported.

Classified records are supposed to be stored in secure locations. And under the Presidential Records Act, White House records are supposed to go to the National Archives when an administration ends.

Prior to new reports about the second batch of government materials on Wednesday, the White House refused to answer a number of critical questions about the classified documents from Biden's time as vice president discovered inside a private office last fall, citing an ongoing Department of Justice review.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Wednesday refused to answer a number questions about the documents, citing the Justice Department's ongoing review of the matter. She could not say who brought the documents into the office or whether other documents were found. Nor could she say whether an audit was underway to locate other possible documents or when the president had been briefed on the discovery of the documents.

"This is under review by the Department of Justice. I'm not going to go beyond what the president shared yesterday," Jean-Pierre said, repeating the explanation in so many words over the course of Wednesday's press briefing. "I'm not going to go beyond what my colleagues at the White House counsel shared with all of you as well."

This is a breaking story and will be updated.