But,ordinarily,the jewelry and the cash *also* would have been handed over to the hospital.Perhaps CT does it differently but that's the way it was done in Boston,Massachusetts.
It would take a while to detail the procedure an ER employs in receiving patient valuables in a situation like that but the clerk involved and/or another staff member could be the culprit.We had several incidents in my hospital,a very large and very famous one.As for the cash in the troopers cruiser it seems possible that there's an innocent explanation.
In short,do cops sometimes steal from suspects,crime victims or accident victims? Very probably.But I *know* that at at least one large hospital there were a couple of incidents that *I* know of where hospital staff members were the thieves.
Just sayin'.....