Overview
- TMZ reports Busfield appeared at an attorney’s office in Albuquerque and stated on camera that he drove roughly 2,000 miles to face the allegations.
- Authorities had enlisted the U.S. Marshals Service after Albuquerque police said they had not located or arrested him days after a judge issued a warrant on January 9.
- The warrant charges two counts of criminal sexual contact with a minor involving 11-year-old twin brothers who worked as child actors on The Cleaning Lady, where Busfield was a director.
- According to the warrant and media summaries, a University of New Mexico Hospital doctor alerted police in November 2024, and specialists later concluded the children had been groomed.
- The warrant records that Busfield denied wrongdoing and made inconsistent statements to investigators, and NBC pulled a scheduled Law & Order: SVU episode featuring him from broadcast.