In a Manhattan court, a police officer testified that alleged killer Luigi Mangione possessed “a lot of money, as well as some foreign currency” when apprehended. Mangione, suspected of a health-care executive’s murder, was found with over $7,000 in cash. His defense seeks to exclude evidence from his backpack, seized during the arrest.

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The second day of the Luigi Mangione pre-trial evidence suppression hearing has wrapped, with Altoona Police Officer Joseph Detwiler finishing his testimony Tuesday afternoon.

Detwiler was cross-examined for around an hour by Karen Friedman Agnifilo, Mangione's defense attorney -- who asked him if he was proud of being one of the officers to make the high-profile bust.

"I'm proud of doing a good job, yes," Detwiler replied.

The hearing is off Wednesday, will be back Thursday, and is expected to last until early next week.

Luigi Mangione was carrying a blue-and-white wallet with a Hawaiian tribal design and emblazoned with a sea turtle with thousands of dollars of cash stuffed inside when he was nabbed, a police officer testified.

The turtle-themed wallet was briefly displayed on screens inside the courtroom as Altoona Police Officer Joseph Detwiler continued his testimony.

“That’s the blue wallet I pulled from his coat,” the cop matter-of-factly explained.

The court also saw a separate photo of what appeared to be more than $7,000 in cash, mostly $100 bills, that police recovered inside the wallet.

A fan of Luigi Mangione cried as she watched video footage in court showing the moment the suspected UnitedHealthcare CEO slayer was cuffed inside a Pennsylvania McDonald's -- while an iconic Christmas song played in the background.

Video showed Mangione being patted down by Altoona, Pa., cops before they handcuffed him Dec. 9, five days after he allegedly fatally shot health care honcho Brian Thompson.

Mangione remained quiet and cooperative as he was taken into custody while Bing Crosby's "I'll Be Home for Christmas" rang out inside the fast-food joint.

Looking on from one of the back rows of the courtroom, a woman had tears streaming down her face and mouthed to a Post reporter, "It's sad."

The woman added in a note that she thinks Mangione is "a good person."

"It's sad watching the video, seeing how they are treating him," the woman wrote.

Mangione has been locked up since his arrest.

The courtroom just saw video footage of the moment Luigi Mangione admitted to cops inside a Pennsylvania McDonald's that he lied about his identity.

Mangione had given the Altoona, Pa., police a fake New Jersey ID with the name Mark Rosario on it before the officers came back inside the fast-food joint after presumably running the identification through their system.

“You’re under official police investigation," a cop could be heard telling Mangione as he sat in a chair, staring at the floor. "If you give us false name again, you will be arrested for false ID.”

“What's your real name?” the officer asked him.

“Luigi ... Mangione," responded the suspected killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

"Why’d you lie about your name?” the cop asked.

"Uh, I clearly shouldn’t have…,” Mangione said.

“But why did you lie?” a different officer asked.

Mangione then answered that he gave the false name because it matched the one on his fake ID.

The suspect later revealed to be Luigi Mangione was easy to spot at the Altoona, Pa., McDonald's because he was wearing a medical mask, which was uncommon in the area, an arriving officer testified Tuesday.

“Yeah, we don’t wear masks. We have antibodies,” Officer Joseph Detwiler told the court -- a quip that drew laughs from the courthouse gallery.

Detwiler, who testified that he had seen images of the suspect several times on Fox News, had been asked about the significance of someone wearing a mask in the area.

“No one here wears a mask, and I knew he had a mask on, so he had to be the person that we were called there for," the officer said.

A man who lined up for a highly anticipated hearing in the murder case against Luigi Mangione says he made $900 Monday after he was able to sell his spot to two fans to get into the courtroom.

"I banged it out of the park yesterday," John McIntosh told The Post on Tuesday.

McIntosh's luck ran out Tuesday, though, as there weren't enough Mangione supporters during the second day of hearings for someone to buy his spot in line.

Twenty-four Mangione fans, including just four men, filled the limited-seating back three rows of the Manhattan Supreme Court gallery at 100 Centre St. in Manhattan as Tuesday's proceedings got under way.

As Luigi Mangione sat calmly munching on his breakfast, an Altoona police officer stalled for time before his backup arrived -- making awkward small talk with the accused killer, video played in court Tuesday reveals.

“How’s the steak? It’s my favorite," Altoona, Pa., Officer Joseph Detwiler told Mangione, who had given his name as "Mark," as Mangione chowed down on his breakfast sandwich, with the Christmas tune "Jingle Bell Rock" blaring from the eatery's speakers.

Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Joel Siedemann asked Detwiler during Tuesday's hearing, "What was the point of that?"

“Just trying to keep things calm and normal,” Detwiler replied.

The officer also testified that he lied to Mangione by claiming that he'd been called to the scene because McDonald's has "a policy that if you are here too long, they call us.”

“I wanted him to feel like it was something normal for us to call him for,” Detwiler said Tuesday.

Mangione can be seen on the bodycam footage showing the officer his receipt and noting that he had only been in the restaurant for 40 minutes.

Several other officers arrived minutes later, and Mangione was eventually arrested.

Accused murderer Luigi Mangione tried to play it cool by continuing to munch on his breakfast while being questioned by officers at the McDonald’s where cops would end up busting him in December 2024.

He had bought a Steak Egg and Cheese McMuffin and a hash brown -- and noshed on the slab of toasted potato twice while being asked questions, according to newly surfaced video of the encounter.

But his attempt to stay calm didn’t work — the cops recognized him right away as the bushy-browed man sought in a sidewalk execution of a health care exec in Manhattan, one of the officers testified Tuesday.

“I knew it was him immediately,’’ Altoona, Pa., Officer Joseph Detwiler said on the stand.

Luigi Mangione watched intently in court Tuesday as never-before-seen footage showed two Altoona cops approaching him at a local McDonald’s before his capture.

The officers asked the 27-year-old ex-prep school slay suspect his name, and he claimed to be “Mark Rosario’’ from New Jersey.

The cops, by now clear that they likely had their man, asked if he’d been “up in New York recently.” Mangione, who grew up in Maryland, replied, “Um, yes, sir.’’

The suspect didn’t answer when one of the officers asked him when.

Mangione was getting jittery, Officer Joseph Detwiler testified.

“Do me a favor, just stand up for me, just put your hands on top of your head for me? You seem a little bit nervous? Why are you nervous?” the cop instructed Mangione.

Asked on the stand how he knew Mangione was nervous, Detwiler responded, “I saw his fingers shaking a little bit.''

A cop with the Altoona, Pa., Police Department who was sent to check out a possible sighting of Luigi Mangione at a local McDonald's joked about receiving a free "hoagie" if he improbably arrested the "New York City shooter."

Officer Joseph Detwiler, who responded to the fast-food eatery where Mangione had been spotted, said he got a text from a colleague offering to buy him the sandwich if he made the headline-grabbing bust.

"He said, 'If you get the New York City shooter, I will buy you a hoagie,' " Detwiler testified Tuesday.

"Consider it done," Detwiler told the court he replied.

Luigi Mangione arrived in court Tuesday in a dark blue suit as news photographers snapped his picture -- and a supporter lamented that the accused killer is being treated "like a zoo animal."

“They’re treating him like a zoo animal,” the woman, seated near the back of the courthouse gallery, said as Mangione was photographed for around a minute at the defense table.

Another supporter muttered under her breath, "Trash, trash, trash'' as the photographers headed out of the courtroom.

It is typical for news photographers to take pictures of defendants in high-profile cases.