FOLLOWING reports that actor Alec Baldwin’s cellphone had not yet been turned over to officials investigating the fatal shooting on the “Rust” film set — weeks after a search warrant was granted — Baldwin said Saturday that any suggestion that he was not complying with law enforcement was a “lie.” Police in Santa Fe, New Mexico, obtained a search warrant more than three weeks ago granting them access to information on Baldwin’s phone related to the October shooting, during which a gun that Baldwin was rehearsing with fired a live round, killing the movie’s cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins, and wounding its director, Joel Souza. The sheriff’s office and district attorney of Santa Fe County investigating how a live round got into the gun told media outlets last week that authorities did not yet have Baldwin’s phone, prompting the actor to respond in a video posted to his Instagram page. Filming himself from the driver’s seat of a parked car, Baldwin said the process for recovering information from his phone “takes time” and involved authorities in New Mexico coordinating with authorities where he lives. He added, in reference to the process and the warrant, “We are 1,000 percent going to comply with all that.” Juan Rios, a spokesman for the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office, said on Friday that once authorities received the results of the search warrant, they would be considered public record. (SD-Agencies) |