PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — Court documents indicate the female companion of a New Hampshire man who killed a police chief and wounded four other officers had $14,000 in cash with her when she died.
The Attorney General’s Office wants to hand over to the Drug Enforcement Administration the cash along with four vehicles seized in Greenland: an SUV, two pickup trucks and a BMW.
Police were conducting a drug raid on Cullen Mutrie’s home in Greenland when he opened fire on April 12, killing Greenland Police Chief Michael Maloney and wounding four others.
Court document indicate the cash was found during the autopsy of Brittany Tibbetts, a Maine native who police say was killed by Cullen Mutrie before he turned a gun on himself. Their bodies were found in the home’s basement.
The cash should be handed over to the slain police officer’s family, not to a government agency.
^ Absolutely.
The $14,000 should be donated to hungry and homeless Organizations. This is blood money…..tainted…..it shouldn’t be mingled with Chief Maloney’s grieving and anguished family.
I think that the families should have a right to decide if they wanted, (or more likely) needed the money.
Why???..How about the dead officers family..some needy people..they dont deserve squat..Sorry to her mom, but she was in it up to her eyeballs..she knew what ahe was doing..what are you thinking Susan Buzzell??
I think Susan was referring to the families of the officers…
A government agent took a bullet and gave his life to make your streets safer.
GREAT MAINE GRIL
what about us girls?
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It’s interesting that it took an autopsy to find the money……
That’s quite a wad to secrete on your person.
There was a comment from a NH law enforcement officer in one of the NH media’s coverage that said the medical examiner would be the first one to process all evidence from a body during an autopsy.
To have that much cash on her, she must have had a special garment for it.
It was during the slice and dice autopsy, not the once over before removing the body from the scene. We all ‘know’ where it was. Now this money needs to be legally laundered. :)
A dead body is ONLY to be touched by the Medical examiner. no need for the detectives to search her since she was obviously dead upon entry. This is done to preserve the evidence (the body) and to show continuity of said evidence
Only until it is removed to the morgue, THEN the actual autopsy can begin. Maybe it’s different in Me. , but I’ve been around the farm in Mass. Here the ME needs to check the body before removal, the clothes are sent to forensics (if deemed warranted) then sign off on the autopsy. That’s pretty much their involvement.
If you don’t think it was hidden in a cavity, then you need to come down to a more populated area with a proportionately higher crime rate where you see ALL the stories others only hear about. I’m actually a little surprised that there were no condom wrapped oxys in her stomach for the trip back to Maine (maybe she’d already passed them during the standoff?).
They found a gun there that she purchased but that might be a gun that she normally carried. It could be that the only one of those vehicles in her name was the one she normally drove. I’m wondering how much they knew about her during the investigation that led up to this search warrant being issued. I’m also wondering if they waited until she was there to execute the warrant.
i’m pretty sure from a past BDN, or other story, that there was 2 warrants that day. one for mr multrie, and one for this woman.
Well, the cops showing up with warrants would mean any plans they had to relocate were ruined. I think that maybe the relationship problems story was just a cover for a planned move. She didn’t have a criminal record like his. Getting set up in another town with everything in her name might have been the strategy.
No record could mean not having been caught.
She knew what was up a long time ago.
That seems likely. I’m just thinking maybe they were planning to put everything in her name because she didn’t have a record. Obviously, that plan wouldn’t work if she had sold drugs to a narc.
Dont worry the state will get nthe money
the cops are in it for the money, they want new cruisers…
14k isn’t going to buy much for a cruiser.
its not just this bust, they get it every time!!! and the person doesn’t have to be convicted!!!
If you are participating in any illegal activity, any gains you make doing so are government property. Any vehicle you use to commit the crime is also government property. You did not claim as income, nor pay taxes on illegal money made from criminal activity. This is all punishable by a prison term as well.
What??
Apparently she was not a sweet innocent victim as has been portrayed. 14k, gun… hmmm
$ should go to the late chief’s family.
none of which is illegal….
Seems like she wasn’t the little miss goody two shoes people thought she was.
I have 14K and a gun, am I guilty of something??
Probably not, but you do have to admit, given the circumstances, it seems pretty suspicious.
Pretty bad to convict someone who can never get a trial…
Overwhelming circumstantial evidence.
Did I convict her? I said it was suspicious. Do you not think it is suspicious?
possibly. Are you the significant other of a known drug dealer and were present during a drug deal like she was reported to have been?
depends on where you got the cash, how you earned it, and whether you claimed it on your taxes and paid federal and state income tax on it….oh, and whether you earned it legally
Am I reading this right? Was she body Packing 14K
In pennys
Unless the money can be traced to have been gained illegally, wouldn’t the money go to her estate/next of kin?
No, the state can steal it, assuming (not knowing) it was made with drugs…
steal it? Try take it since it was illegally gotten to begin with. Please tell me what this wonderful upstanding woman was working for a job that she had socked away 14K? Or did she make so much that 14K was pocket change? Evidently that must be the case since she was walking around with it. How much more did she have in the bank? Seriously, she wasn’t as innocent as people would like us all to believe.
What exact facts do you have to say that she wasnt as innocent as some thought? By reading your comment it appears to me that you do not know this woman. You do not kow if she had gone to the bank and was buying a car, you dont know if maybe she was going to get a boob job you just dont know. People are to quick to judge and then when they find out that it was nothing to do with drugs theyre just like oops owell. this girls family probably reads these and are furious. I cannot say that she wasnt into drugs, but geesh people!
According to an April 17 article at Boston.com, Tibbetts sold 10 oxycodone pills to a police informant earlier this year. That would at least raise a legitimate question as to how she came to have $14,000 on her person. Additionally, there was apparently enough evidence that she was committing criminal acts that a judge signed an arrest warrant against her. Remember, Google is everyone’s friend.
The only bills they would have rights to are any they had recorded serial numbers or marked for the undercover buy. Other wise, without proof the cash is drug related, they are stealing the money from the woman’s heirs.
“without proof” being the operative part of your position. None of us know what proof the authorities have (or don’t have for that matter) other than they had enough to get a warrant for her arrest. If they’ve been dogging these people for close to two years one would think they have proof of something. If the money is legit, it shouldn’t be too hard for her family to come up with evidence of that – bank loan documents, earnings statements, bills of sale for legal merchandise, or the like. Once the family proves it’s legit money I’m sure the authorities will return it to them.
The family shouldn’t have to prove anything, the burden of proof is not on them. The burden is on the cops to prove it is drug money.
Any cash at the scene of criminal activity, and vehicles and property/possibly the home become government property, as they were gained illegally.
Women, be careful of the men you get involved with. I know you would like to see the good in everyone….but this is just another example becoming more common unfortunately.
Yup, some just like the bad boys.
DRUGS MAKE PEOPLE KILL…so sad for everyone involved :/
The cash was found during an autopsy???? Strange.
im not sure but i think that if they come to a scene where one is dead already they do not search them. just sayin that maybe that is why it was found at autopsy i do not know for sure
“Court document indicate the cash was found during the autopsy of Brittany Tibbetts…”
Whoa… wait a minute. Where exactly was the cash located?
Split it between the officers families. They can make the personal decision wheter to take it or not, and hopefully not have that info splashed all over this paper.
“$14,000 found during the autopsy”
Where oh where was this found?