Seminole police Chief Charlie Tiger is in the Bahamas on a fact-finding mission into the death of Anna Nicole Smith, Local 10 has learned.
Tiger was first spotted Monday night in Nassau, where a hearing over the guardianship of Smith's baby daughter was held. Tiger wouldn't say what he was doing there as Local 10's Roger Lohse questioned him as he was leaving his hotel, but it was clear he was not alone.
A team from the Broward County medical examiner's office was accompanying him, as was a Bahamian police detective who drove them from the hotel.
Their presence in the Bahamas is significant because Smith's late son Daniel died there in September from what is believed to be a lethal combination of prescription drugs. The coroner's inquest into his death is scheduled for next month.
A spokesman for the Seminole Police Department, which is the agency handling the Smith case, said Tiger was in Nassau for a non-criminal investigation into her death, in which prescription drugs might also have been the cause.
Sources told Local 10 that Tiger is working closely with Bahamian police, although police there have not commented. Homicide detectives from the Bahamian police met with Tiger in his hotel room Monday, Lohse reported.
Smith died Feb. 8 after collapsing at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Fla.
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Hes just partying!!!
This is good news! I hope...
Chief Tiger! That's his name. Not Chief Moose. Same difference anyway. I may be prejudging this guy but he seemed at the press conference to be clueless. Maybe it was just because it had all just happened. Hopefully he's good.
A non-criminal investigation into her death? What is that?