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Greg Biffle and wife Cristina with their two kids in February 2022.
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- Police in North Carolina believe friends of Greg Biffle conspired to steal his wealth following his death in December plane crash
- Thieves hit the home of the late NASCAR star, whose wife Cristina and two children were also killed in the crash, three weeks after their deaths
- At the time, thieves stole $30,000 and a backpack, as well as two guns and NASCAR memorabilia
Police in North Carolina believe the January theft that occurred at the home of the late NASCAR driver Greg Biffle, shortly after he was killed in a plane crash along with his wife Cristina, their two children and three others, was an inside job and that those in his inner circle conspired to steal his wealth.
According to court documents obtained by The Charlotte Observer and WBTV, “multiple conspirators that had access to and intimate knowledge of the Biffles’ accounts” stole “hundreds of thousands of dollars.”
“This fraud appears to have been a strategic and coordinated strike against all accounts through multiple states which has resulted in hundreds of thousands of dollars being stolen,” an Iredell County sheriff’s detective’s search warrant dated March 10 alleged.
According to authorities who found “multiple accounts of fraud,” the suspects had access to the Biffles’ social security numbers, birthdays and passwords, among other identifying information.
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(L-R) Greg, Ryder, Emma and Cristina Biffle
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“This leads the affiant to believe that a conspiracy has been in place for a long period of time to commit fraud against the Biffle family,” the search warrant alleged.
Two separate times on January 7 and January 8, just three weeks after the Biffles died in the plane crash, thieves stole $30,000 in cash and a $30 backpack from their home.
According to a police report obtained by PEOPLE at the time, the Iredell County Sheriff’s Office arrived at the Biffle estate on Doolie Road in Mooresville, N.C. on Thursday, Jan. 8 at approximately 6:23 p.m., after Cristina’s mother Cathy Grossu alerted authorities about the crime, according to the police report.
Two guns and NASCAR memorabilia were also reported as possibly missing from the Biffle home, according to CBS affiliate WBTV.
At a public remembrance honoring the seven victims of the crash on January 16 in Charlotte, sheriff’s investigators matched the features of a woman at the event to a suspect seen on surveillance video taken during the Biffles’ home break-in.
The woman is a friend of Grossu’s, a detective said in the warrant.
No arrests have been made amid the ongoing investigation, per the Observer.
The NASCAR driver, 55, and his wife, 35, died along with their five-year-old son Ryder, Greg’s 14-year-old daughter Emma and three others when their Cessna Citation 550 crashed while trying to return to Statesville Regional Airport on Thursday, Dec. 18.
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Greg Biffle in 2022
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The NTSB is investigating the cause of the crash.
In an interview with PEOPLE earlier this month, Biffle's mentee and friend, rising stock car driver Cleetus McFarland, spoke about his grief following the tragedy.
“It’s very sad, you know, and like all these things I do, I think about him a lot, how much more fun it would be with him,” McFarland told PEOPLE about how he is coping with the loss of his friend. “And I go to Charlotte where he's from, or Morrisville, and I'm just so sad because he's not there. So it's hard, in that aspect.”
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