BREAKING: NH Attorney General said Cullen Mutrie, responsble for shooting five police officers, found dead in a Greenland home.
Posted on 04/12/2012 11:30:30 PM PDT by smokingfrog
GREENLAND, N.H. -- The Greenland chief of police was killed and four other officers were wounded as they tried to serve a warrant Thursday at a home in a New Hampshire town near the Massachusetts border.
The shootout happened at 517 Post Road in Greenland at about 6:30 p.m. Police officers and drug agents went to the home to serve a search warrant, and that is when the incident began.
"They entered the home, and they encountered an armed subject. The armed subject fired rounds at the officers," Attorney General Michael Delaney said.
The alleged gunman spent hours barricaded inside the home with a woman, but sources told NewsCenter 5's Michele McPhee that SWAT teams entered the home and expanded their search when the gunman was not found.
Greenland Police Chief Michael Maloney, who was set to retire in eight days, was killed.
(Excerpt) Read more at thebostonchannel.com ...
Wow... Prayers up.
“I just got home with my children, and I heard some popping sound,” Hardy said. “I noticed four officers running from the house, and I saw three of them fall to the ground. It started to become such a crazy scene.”
Just checking other news reports on this sad story, I learned that police had previously gone to the home of the resident to confiscate his guns after a domestic violence charge, and saw steroids in the home. That resulted in steroid possession charges.
Learned a lot about Massachusetts reading the comments on boston.com...
Seems more and more shootings are occurring in small towns and rural areas.
I thought this only happened in big cities?
No!
Prayers sent. How tragic.
Enough of this -- ban all Massachusetts.
Now everybody knows what happens when you vote against the candidates who want to legalize drugs. Defend liberty with ballots, or your fellow citizens can and will defend liberty with bullets. The Second Amendment wasn't written for duck hunters.
Why were the police invading somebody's home? If you invade somebody's home, you should expect to get shot at. Stupid MORANS!!!!
Epic fail on this raid, the officers in charge of this raid should lose their badges.
That's just a representative sample.
RIP.
When the Hell are they going to stop trying to arrest these people in their houses? If I’m bear hunting, I don’t go into his cave. I wait until he comes out.
Seems fishy to me.. the man and woman are killed, police Chief is killed and 4 other cops are wonded.
Seems to me something was obviously done wrong.
You have got to be kidding right?
"Steroids?"
Five police officers serving a warrant for steroids?
A meth lab, maybe? But since when is being in the possession of steroids a major felony which could not have been handled by issuing a summons?
What next? Swat teams sent in when antihistamines are spotted in someones domicile?
People who sell steroids use them. Roid rage makes a person into the Hulk and can throw cops around like rag dolls.
I would have had five cops and a tranq gun. With one extra cop outside with a shotgun.
RIP to the sheriff.
Police Chief, not the sheriff died. In New England, the sheriff generally runs the jails, and excutes evictions and little else. Law enforcement is generally handled by the police. Your sentiment was fine, regardless.
“When the Hell are they going to stop trying to arrest these people in their houses? If I’m bear hunting, I don’t go into his cave. I wait until he comes out.”
The unfortunate response to events such as this will be to further escalate the use of force, not decrease it.
Cullen Mutrie was a POS with guns. Don’t forget to read the sidebars.
http://www.seacoastonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071010/NEWS/710100377
What is the urge to invade a man’s castle?!!!!! That’s always a prescription for a disaster....especially if you’re dealing with drugs.
It is SO easy to park an unmarked at the end of the street .....and wait for him to come out .....and take him in with two others vehicles and six guys out in a very public place.
Any LEO training that is directing local PD’s to do this....is basically professional malpractice.
I was wondering if that was his parents’ house. Your typical firefighter wannabee doesn’t usually live in a four bedroom home on a one acre lot.
The unfortunate response to events such as this will be to further escalate the use of force, not decrease it.
As in “Our” government at Waco?
Ones home is one's safe place. Once that is disturbed, nowhere to go but chaos.
They will never stop trying to arrest people for the drugs in their home. You see, the drug war is an industry now, it employes millions of people, from the corner lookout to the circuit judge and all people in between.
It is a multibillion dollar enterprise for the narcotics manufacturers to the industries crafting all the crap the drug warriors use. Private police academies flood the market (for profit) with recruits all eager to get into the drug war.
Police officers of all ranks are now being trained and equipped as urban infantry under the guise of anti-terrorism or active shooter scenarios, but it is just an extension of the drug war.
Interesting information on Cullen Mutrie (the man who's home was invaded, who shot the police on April 12, 2012 and who was later found dead in the home) and what took place over several YEARS, PRIOR to the shooting, again, note the progression of stories, the TIMELINE, DATES and the original reason used for searching his home, "GUNS":
on January 19, 2012 Cullen Mutrie was arrested after police searched his home back in JULY of 2010 for possession of guns, they appear to have found two guns. His 2007 case plea deal (see below) prohibited him from carrying or possessing guns... while searching his home (July 2010) the police reportedly "found" a scale and one plastic bag on a coffee table containing vials filled with unknown substances, after later testing (Interestingly, the test results were just released by the state crime lab on January 18 of 2012), the substances turned out to be anabolic steroids. This is a list of what was found: trenbolone acetate, testosterone cypionate, and nandrolone decanote. He was arrested on January 19, 2012, and arraigned on February 8, 2012. The authorities had filed 9 felony charges against Mr. Mutrie. This is the back story; note the various DATES in the timeline:
Firefighter wannabe regrets plea... October 10, 2007 2:00 AM "PORTSMOUTH — A Greenland man who pleaded guilty to an assault at the Portsmouth Gas Light Co. restaurant wants to withdraw his plea because, he told a judge, he didn't know the resulting conviction (misdemeanor charge of simple assault) would hurt his chances of becoming a firefighter...."
http://www.seacoastonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071010/NEWS/710100377
Wannabe firefighter gets day in court... again... November 28, 2007 1:04 PM "PORTSMOUTH — A would-be firefighter was allowed to take back guilty pleas to assault charges because, a judge ruled, he misunderstood his lawyer’s advice and the potential career consequences.
An order written by District Court Judge Sawako Gardner, finds Cullen Mutrie, 25, of 517 Post Road, Greenland, “may not have been able to intelligently inquire about his career path and the consequences of his convictions....”
http://www.seacoastonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071128/NEWS/71128013/-1/TOWN0102
Result of Steroid Tests Finally Released, Charges Filed February 5, 2011 "Police officers seized various types of steroids from a resident of Portsmouth, NH in July 2010 but the charges were only filed recently...."
(Note: test results were just released by the state crime lab on January 18 of 2012)
"Authorities did not provide any information why it took them so long before releasing the test results. The possible cause of the delay could be due to the different scope of investigation by the police and the steroids were only found when they searched the suspect’s home....
(Note: Cullen Mutrie, 28, of 517 Post Road, Greenland was arrested on January 19, 2012)
http://www.steroidsources.com/Steroid-Information/2011/02/result-of-steroid-tests-finally-released-charges-filed/
All of this over steroids? Are you frickin’ kidding me?
Expect more of this as government tyranny gets worse.
‘Stuff’ happens everywhere.
Someone explain to me WHY steroids are illegal again?
First person to say "'roid rage" needs to go look up the stats on steroid free folks and their rates of domestic assuault and compare that to the weight lifting community. It's a non-issue.
Pure mission creep BS in the ongoing and illegal "war on drugs".
It gets better, the police supposedly “found” the steroids back in JULY 2010 while searching his house for evil GUNS... because of a MISDEMEANOR event which purportedly took place back in early 2007! And they didn’t charge him regarding the steroids until January 2012! See post 26 for details. Something appears to be fishy with the story... time will tell.
Yes, the protagonist was also labeled "evil" by the authorities and the media in the book/movie Fahrenheit 451, but the facts may paint a different picture (post 26). Time will hopefully tell.
Just our weekly cluster-f*ck from the ongoing and illegal "war on drugs".
At Waco, the ATF had numerous opportunities to arrest the leader on a town store run...multiple times.
They chose to confront the Waco martyrs with automatic weapons and got their asses handed to them on a silver platter.
It took the FBI,(IIRC Ruby Ridge’s Lon Noriuchi was there also) the military and the ATF to firebomb the compound and murder its inhabitants.... it’s SWAT/LEO mentality. Thanks Janet....
Oh yeah, there was plenty of that.
Southern New Sodom/Hampshire is essentially a suburb of Boston...I know police officers who have quit because 'things were getting out of control' as Boston criminals now see NH as 'easy pickings'. Home invasions are off the chart in this state. You could leave your doors unlocked as recently as the late 80's.
Sounds like a 'Free Stater'...
“I know police officers who have quit because ‘things were getting out of control’”
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Why on earth did they become police officers——to direct small town traffic?
The departments are better off without them.
Are comments up again on the site. When I was there, there were no comments.
A lot of cops get demoralized because they do not get any support from the politicians who control policy and budgets.
Got me.
New Sodom/Hampshire is essentially a suburb of Boston.
Oh, I didn't realize this happened in a large city.
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