Timothy Busfield, who turned himself in today to face child sexual abuse charges, has been officially arrested and booked by the Albuquerque Police Department. The thirtysomething actor has proclaimed he is innocent of the accusations.
Looking at potentially decades in New Mexico prison if found guilty, on the felonies, Busfield was booked at 1:08 pm PT at the Metro Detention Center. See the photo below.
A detailed arrest warrant issued January 9 hit Busfield with two counts of criminal sexual contact with a minor and child abuse. The claims arise out of Busfield’s stint as a director on the now shuttered Fox drama The Cleaning Lady earlier this decade.
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In a short video sent out just before surrendering to the APD, the Emmy winner declared: “I’m going to confront these lies. They’re horrible, they’re all lies, and I did not do anything to those little boys. And I’m going to fight it. I’m going to fight it with a great team, and I’m going to be exonerated. I know I am, because this is all so wrong and all lies.”
On January 12, as Deadline exclusively reported, New Mexico authorities had brought in the U.S. Marshals Service to serve an arrest warrant on the upper New York state-based Busfield, who hadn’t been seen since the charges were revealed on Friday. According to the actor today, he actually drove from the East Coast to the Land of Enchantment to face justice there. On January 12, NBC pulled a January 15 episode of Law & Order: SVU that had the actor in a guest-star role as a judge. Instead, the Comcast-owned network will move up the SVU episode that was originally set to air January 22.
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