How FBI team smashed down Ghislaine Maxwell's hideout door to end year-long 'cat and mouse' game that cost $5M
Officers had to smash down Ghislaine Maxwell's door at her secret hideout before they were able to arrest her. Ghislaine was arrested from Bradford in New Hampshire on July 2 morning after 24 armed FBI agents, officers from local police, New York police, and New Hampshire's gang task force used bolt cutters to enter her property. Ghislaine had bought the house for cash last December.
While speaking to Daily Mail, an officer said, "We drove at speed up the half-mile driveway in a convoy of 15 vehicles. And let’s just say, we didn’t knock politely on the door. It was smashed down."
"Maxwell was up and dressed, in the living room, wearing sweat pants and a top. Strangely she didn’t seem to have much reaction. It was like it wasn’t registering with her," the officer says. "She was turned around quickly and cuffed. She was in custody in a matter of seconds," the officer added. At around 4.20 am, neighbors were alerted when they heard planes overhead.
59-year-old Dick Morris, a carpenter said, "I heard what I first thought was a para plane, basically an engine with a seat and parachute, which is common around here. You hear one for ten minutes and it’s gone. But this went on and on.I went out to load my truck at 7 am and the plane was still going. I thought, 'What the heck is this guy doing buzzing around and around?' I peered up through the trees and caught a glimpse of a small Cessna-type plane high up and buzzing in a wide circle."
"Then I noticed another plane so there were two of them, like opposite sides of a circle, this high-altitude circle of planes buzzing around and around. Later I realized it had to be the FBI making sure she didn’t leave before the raid team got there," Morris added.
According to an insider with knowledge of the one-year-long hunt, FBI agents have been 'on her trail' since last August when Epstein committed suicide in a New York prison. The source shared, "This has taken millions of dollars and hundreds of man-hours. At least five million bucks, maybe more. The FBI has been tracking her for a year. They had her, then they lost her. She was in Colorado and Wyoming then they lost her until she showed up in New Hampshire. It’s been a high-stakes game of cat and mouse."
"They had to build a case and put it in front of a grand jury. These things take time. She slipped through the net once but as soon as the grand jury came back with an indictment ten days ago, it was on," the source added.
A source with knowledge of Ghislaine Maxwell's defense said that her team is preparing for war and revealed, "They’ve had a year to anticipate this. She has money to put the best legal team in place."
"We anticipated this day would come. She’s in the fight of her life and not going down quietly. She insists she’s innocent and always has done." She is likely to face charges of grooming underage girls between the years 1994 and 1997 via asking about their lives, families, schools and taking them to the movies or shopping, reports The Sun.