--- title: Cop's Wife Faked Robbery, Blamed Black Lives Matter description: The wife of a Massachusetts police officer allegedly faked a robbery and vandalized the couple's own home canonical: https://time.com/4550455/police-officer-wife-fake-robbery-black-lives-matter/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-29T16:50:34.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T01:30:26.263Z article:section: U.S. og:title: A Police Officer's Wife Faked a Robbery and Blamed Black Lives Matter og:description: She said the house was tagged with graffiti og:url: https://time.com/4550455/police-officer-wife-fake-robbery-black-lives-matter/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: A Police Officer's Wife Faked a Robbery and Blamed Black Lives Matter twitter:description: She said the house was tagged with graffiti twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # A Police Officer's Wife Faked a Robbery and Blamed Black Lives Matter, Authorities Say by [Mahita Gajanan](/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Oct 29, 2016 4:50 PM CUT by [Mahita Gajanan](/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Oct 29, 2016 4:50 PM CUT The wife of a Millbury, Mass. police officer allegedly faked a robbery and vandalized the couple’s own home. According to police, Maria Daly reported a burglary at the home, and said jewelry and money had been stolen on Oct. 17\. She also said the house was tagged with graffiti saying “BLM,” in an apparent reference to Black Lives Matter. Investigators determined the entire account was false, Millbury Police Chief Donald Desorcy [told CBS News](http://www.cbsnews.com/news/massachusetts-cops-wife-faked-robbery-indicated-black-lives-matter-police-say/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=30482195 "undefined"). “Something wasn’t quite right,” he said. “I think that was pretty obvious and as a result of that investigation, the officers did their due diligence and followed through with the investigation that we had.” Desorcy said officers “came to the conclusion that it was all fabricated.” “There was no intruder, there was no burglary,” he said. Daly’s husband, Millbury Officer Daniel Daly, was not involved in the fabricated burglary and has been exonerated, Desorcy said. Maria Daly now faces charges of filing a false police report and misleading a police investigation. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4550455/police-officer-wife-fake-robbery-black-lives-matter/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4550455/police-officer-wife-fake-robbery-black-lives-matter/"},"headline":"A Police Officer's Wife Faked a Robbery and Blamed Black Lives Matter, Authorities Say","datePublished":"2016-10-29T16:50:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T01:30:26.263Z","description":"She said the house was tagged with graffiti that appeared to reference Black Lives Matter","url":"https://time.com/4550455/police-officer-wife-fake-robbery-black-lives-matter/","keywords":["Massachusetts"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4550455/police-officer-wife-fake-robbery-black-lives-matter/","name":"A Police Officer's Wife Faked a Robbery and Blamed Black Lives Matter, Authorities Say"}}]}] ```