NEW ORLEANS (AP) – Russell Brand is wanted in New Orleans.
The actor, who is in the Crescent City to shoot an untitled comedy film, was slapped with an arrest warrant from the city’s police department on a charge of simple criminal damage to property valued at $700.
New Orleans Police Department spokeswoman Remi Braden told the AP on Thursday that she couldn’t immediately disclose details of the incident on Monday that led to the warrant against Brand.
Celebrity website TMZ reported the charges stem from a confrontation with a photographer who was trying to take Brand’s photo from a car.
In a tweet posted Wednesday, Brand wrote, “Since Steve Jobs died I cannot bear to see anyone use an iphone irreverently, what I did was a tribute to his memory.”
Neither Brand nor his publicist could immediately be reached for comment.
The film shooting in New Orleans, previously titled “Lamb of God,” stars Brand alongside “Dancing with the Stars” champion Julianne Hough, “Parks and Recreation” actor Nick Offerman and Octavia Spencer, the Oscar-winning star of “The Help.”
Directed by “Juno” and “Young Adult” screenwriter Diablo Cody, the film chronicles a religious woman (Hough) who questions her faith following a plane crash and moves to Las Vegas to get a taste of life as a sinner. Brand plays a man who helps her find herself again.
Brand made headlines recently during the demise of his marriage to pop star Katy Perry. He filed for divorce Dec. 30 and the split was granted by a judge in February.
 
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