Armed officers ran a convoy of 15 vehicles through the New Hampshire forest, with spy planes buzzing overhead, in the moments before they shot down Ghislaine Maxwell’s door and arrested her on Thursday, according to a report.
Small planes began buzzing over Bradford in New Hampshire from 4:20 am Thursday, four hours before the raid on Maxwell’s 156-acre hideout, locals told the Mail on Sunday newspaper.
When 24 armed FBI agents finally broke into the property, aptly named “Tuckedaway,” they were backed by New York police, local officials and even the New Hampshire gang workforce, the newspaper said.
After using bolt cutters to break the lock on a metal door, the teams “drove down the half-mile road in a convoy of 15 vehicles,” an official told the newspaper.
“And let’s just say we don’t knock on the door politely,” the officer said. “It was crushed.”
Maxwell was “upstairs and dressed” and was wearing “sweatpants and a blouse” in the living room when they broke in, the officer said.
“She quickly turned around and handcuffed. She was detained in a matter of seconds, ”the source insisted.
Curiously, she didn’t seem to have much reaction. It was as if he wasn’t registering with her, ”the officer told the UK newspaper.
Residents of the area were shocked to learn that their mysterious neighbor was actually Maxwell, the disgraced British socialite and longtime confidante of famed pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Only after the news of his arrest on federal sexual assault charges came out, the small planes that “went on and on” circling all morning finally made sense, a neighbor told the newspaper.
“I realized it had to be the FBI making sure he didn’t leave before the raid team got there,” carpenter Dick Morris, 59, who lives across from Maxwell’s hideout, told the newspaper.
The search for Maxwell cost “millions of dollars and hundreds of man-hours,” the newspaper source said of the “high-risk cat-and-mouse game.”
“At least $ 5 million, maybe more,” the source said.
Maxwell was eventually found in the $ 1.07 million luxury home she bought in a cash settlement through what prosecutors called a “carefully anonymized LLC” in court documents filed Thursday.
His defense team is now “preparing for war,” a source told the newspaper.
“They have had a year to anticipate this. She has money to establish the best legal team, “the source said, noting that” they anticipated this day would come. “
“She is in the fight of her life and is not silent. She insists that she is innocent and always has, ”said the source.
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