Throw them under the jail.
We’re learning more about the break-in at retired NASCAR driver Greg Biffle‘s North Carolina home following his tragic death last December – and as it turns out, that wasn’t the only theft these lowlives carried out.
Early this year, officials revealed that burglars had broken into Biffle’s home in Mooresville, North Carolina back in early January, less than a month after the retired NASCAR driver was killed in a plane crash along with his wife and two children.
According to a police report from the Iredell County Sheriff’s Department, the burglary was reported by Cathy Grossu, who was Biffle’s mother-in-law, the mother of his wife Cristina Grossu. The report also lists his niece, Jordyn Biffle Carpenter, as an “involved other.”
The report says there were signs of forced entry, and that $30,000 in cash and a backpack were taken from the home. And according to WBTV, guns and NASCAR memorabilia were also reportedly being investigated as missing from the home, with the sheriff’s office reporting that they were working with race teams in the area to attempt to locate missing property and determine whether or not it was stolen.
Detectives said at the time that they believed the burglar was someone with knowledge of the layout of the home.
But just when you think people couldn’t get any lower, it’s now been revealed that the thieves apparently attempted to drain his bank accounts and stole hundreds of thousands of dollars in the process.
According to search warrants obtained by WBTV, authorities noticed suspicious activity on Biffle’s account after his death, including the changing of email addresses, phone numbers, and passwords, as well as fraudulent activity on his wife’s Venmo account. His bank account information was allegedly changed over the phone, and at least one check was cashed from a bank account for Biffle’s businesses.
There were also apparently multiple additional attempts to get into the bank accounts in person at bank branches “across state lines,” and police say that at least some of the attempts to access their accounts came before the break-in.
While the search warrants describe the individuals as part of Biffle and Grossu’s “inner circle,” their names have not yet been reported and it’s not clear what their relationship was to the couple.
Last week, authorities executed search warrants on a home in Denver, North Carolina, as well a business in Mooresville that appears to be a storage facility. None of the stolen property was recovered, but detectives said that they seized several items, including electronic devices, from the home.
No charges have been announced at this time, though authorities said last week that they’ve developed a “person of interest” in the thefts. Police said they believe that the fraud and the break-in were related, and suspect that whoever carried out the thefts had insider knowledge of the accounts as well as the Biffle home.
I mean, it doesn’t get much lower than stealing from a grieving family. And now, it sounds like it may have been somebody who Biffle trusted, which just makes it that much more disgusting.
