GREENLAND — Found murdered in the basement of a home where Cullen Mutrie shot five police officers, and murdered Police Chief Michael Maloney, Brittany Tibbetts had $14,320 in cash “on her person,” said Associate Attorney General Jane Young.
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The cash was discovered during an April 14 autopsy, Young said. It was not in a purse, the denominations are not being publicized, and the AG’s office is not releasing details about exactly where on Tibbetts’ body the cash was found, Young said.
Mutrie shot and killed Tibbetts, then himself, following a botched drug raid on April 12 at Mutrie’s 516 Post Road home, according to investigators.
In a motion received by the Portsmouth Circuit Court on Friday, Young asks a judge to transfer ownership of the cash to the federal Drug Enforcement Agency.
The motion similarly asks the court to transfer ownership of four vehicles towed from Mutrie’s yard, also to the DEA. The listed vehicles are a 2004 Volkswagen Touareg, a 2004 Chevy pickup truck, a 2006 BMW M6 Coupe and a 1999 Dodge Durango SUV.
Young said it’s the DEA’s intention to seize the cash and vehicles through forfeiture proceedings which will include notice to interested parties. Her motion for the transfer of the cars and cash was copied to attorney Stephen Jeffco on behalf of Mutrie’s mother Beverly, and to Tibbetts’ father, Leonard Tibbetts.
At the time of her murder, Tibbetts was under investigation for selling oxycodone, according to court records. A warrant for her arrest by DTF detective Dev Atma Khalso states Tibbetts and Mutrie were making $12,500 in cash sales of addictive pain killers within a matter of days.
The detective’s affidavit alleged Tibbetts sold a police informant ten 30 mg oxycodone pills for $250 cash and a reliable informant told him they were selling “upward of 500 oxycodone pills every few days.”
At $25 a pill, that’s $12,500 in cash sales “every few days.”
Mutrie was also facing felony charges alleging his possession of anabolic steroids. Greenland police said the steroids were found in Mutrie’s home where officers went on July 24, 2010 to seize five guns after Mutrie’s then-girlfriend obtained a domestic-violence related protection order.
Since then, Mutire was barred from possessing weapons and/or a license to carry a concealed weapon.
Khalso’s affidavit alleged Tibbett’s oxycodone sales were made at Mutrie’s house and based on that allegation he was granted a no-knock warrant to search the residence. Police say Maloney and the task force officers arrived at Mutrie’s home on April 12 at 6:22 p.m. and “attempted to gain entry into the home.”
As they did, the officers “were fired upon” and gunfire was exchanged in the area of Mutrie’s front porch, front yard and driveway, court records state. After the gunfight, police spoke briefly with Mutrie, but for the next six or seven hours, police surrounded the house without contact, the AG’s office said.
A police robot was sent into the house at 1:20 a.m. on April 13 and found Tibbetts and Mutrie dead in the basement – victims of homicide and suicide, according to law enforcement officials.
A Ruger .357 revolver found at the scene was bought by Tibbetts at a Manchester gun show, Young said. The source of a 9 mm pistol, also found at the scene, has not yet been identified, according to Young.
The attorney general’s office said ballistics tests, interviews and the overall homicide investigation remain ongoing.
