Heavily armed federal agents rammed down the door of actor Timothy Busfield’s upstate New York home in a dramatic raid on Tuesday — less than an hour after he turned himself into police in Albuquerque on child sex abuse charges, according to a report.
At least ten US Marshal’s officers from the New York Regional Fugitive Task Force busted through the front door with a battering ram at the “West Wing” star’s residence in Highland Lake, about 20 minutes from the Pennsylvania border in the Catskill Mountains, the Daily Mail reported.
The officers, wearing helmets and armed with assault rifles and riot gear, searched the inside of the house for about ten minutes but found nobody inside. They then moved the rear of the property and searched an RV parked there and an outhouse, according to the outlet.
They did not appear to take anything with them when they left the property about 20 minutes after arriving.
Less than an hour before the New York raid some 2,000 miles away, Busfield had turned himself in to the Albuquerque Police Department after cops alleged he engaged in unlawful sexual conduct with 11-year-old twin boys while directing the Fox show “The Cleaning Lady” in 2024.
The “Field of Dreams” actor has denied the accusations, maintaining that he “did not do anything to those little boys” in a video message his lawyer shared with TMZ.
“They are all lies and I did not do anything to those little boys,” the 68-year-old said. “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.”
Busfield, who is married to former child actress Melissa Gilbert, faces two counts of criminal misconduct against a minor — one for each child — according to a warrant issued on Friday by New Mexico Police.
The alleged abuse began in 2022, when the boys were 7 years old, according to court documents.
A criminal investigation began in 2024 when a physician notified police about suspected sexual abuse after examining one of the children at the University of New Mexico Hospital, according to the complaint.
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Busfield’s lawyer, Larry Stein, told The Post the disturbing allegations were driven by revenge.
Stein claimed the boys’ mother told an actress on the New Mexico set she wanted payback after her sons were cut from the show’s final season.
Attorneys for Warner Bros., which produced “The Cleaning Lady,” told police that an earlier independent investigation into the accusations found no evidence to support the claims, the complaint alleged.
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