Alec Baldwin turns in cell phone in ‘Rust’ fatal shooting investigation

Alec Baldwin handed his cell phone over to authorities on Friday as part of the investigation into a fatal shooting on a movie set last year.

New Mexico police issued a search warrant for the phone Dec. 16, seeking information about the shooting on the set of “Rust” that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

Baldwin gave his phone to authorities in Suffolk County, L.I., where he owns a home. Suffolk County investigators will search the phone and provide that evidence to the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office, according to the New Mexico investigators.

“The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office does not yet have physical possession of the data to be retrieved off the Baldwin phone,” a Santa Fe County spokesman said in a statement. “This is in process.”

Baldwin, 63, has claimed that he’s cooperated with police throughout the process and never refused to hand over the phone.

“Any suggestion that I am not complying with requests or orders or demands or search warrants about my phone, that’s bulls---. That’s a lie,” the veteran actor said last week in an Instagram video.

Baldwin previously said that he does not expect to be charged with a crime despite holding the gun when it fired Oct. 21 on the “Rust” set near Santa Fe. Baldwin claimed he never pulled the trigger and the firearm discharged when he cocked the hammer.

“Alec voluntarily provided his phone to the authorities this morning so they can finish their investigation,” his attorney Aaron Dyer told NBC News on Friday. “But this matter isn’t about his phone, and there are no answers on his phone. Alec did nothing wrong.”

The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office said in the warrant that it wants to search Baldwin’s phone for his communications leading up to the shooting.