Warrant issued for Alec Baldwin’s cellphone in ‘Rust’ taking pictures investigation – Nationwide

Police obtained a search warrant on Thursday for actor Alec Baldwin‘s cellphone within the investigation of October’s deadly taking pictures of a cinematographer on the New Mexico set of his Western film Rust, court docket paperwork confirmed.

The search warrant and accompanying affidavit have been filed in Santa Fe County Justice of the Peace Court docket practically two weeks after a prosecutor overseeing the probe stated that some individuals who dealt with weapons on the movie set might find yourself dealing with felony fees stemming from Halyna Hutchins‘ loss of life.

The warrant licensed investigators to grab Baldwin’s Apple iPhone with a purpose to look at textual content messages, e mail correspondence, social community communications, browser exercise and different data saved on the system, based on the paperwork.

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A sheriff’s detective, Alexandria Hancock, stated in her affidavit that she sought a court docket order requiring Baldwin to show over his cellphone after she had requested it from the actor and his lawyer on a voluntary foundation and “was instructed to accumulate a warrant.”

Neither the warrant nor the seven-page affidavit cited any specific materials that investigators have been on the lookout for on Baldwin’s cellphone.

However suspects, victims and witnesses “typically make and/or obtain phone calls and/or messages earlier than, throughout and/or after the fee of crime(s). Such data, if it exists, could also be materials and related to this investigation,” the affidavit acknowledged.

It added: “There have been a number of emails and textual content messages despatched and obtained concerning the film manufacturing Rust in the midst of (police) interviews” following the Oct. 21 taking pictures.

Baldwin has acknowledged he was holding a Colt .45 revolver pistol on the movie set when it went off throughout rehearsal, discharging a dwell spherical that struck Hutchins within the chest and killed her. Director Joel Souza was wounded.

However the actor stated throughout a tv interview that he by no means pulled the set off, and he denied accountability for the taking pictures. He additionally stated then that he had no concept how a dwell spherical obtained onto the set of the movie.

In line with detective Hancock’s warrant, the movie’s “armorer,” Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, who was accountable for weapons on the set, stated beneath questioning that she had loaded the gun with what she believed have been six “dummy rounds” earlier than the ill-fated rehearsal earlier that day.

Gutierrez-Reed additionally recounted having hassle inserting the sixth spherical into the gun’s cylinder, managing to suit it solely after she “cleaned ‘it’ out,” the affidavit stated.