Timothy Busfield’s Location Still Unknown 4 Days After Arrest Warrant
What To Know
- Timothy Busfield’s whereabouts remain unknown four days after an arrest warrant was issued for alleged child sex abuse.
- The Albuquerque Police Department, in coordination with the U.S. Marshals Service, is actively searching for Busfield.
- The arrest warrant details accusations of grooming and abuse, with investigators alleging Busfield exploited his trusted role on the set of The Cleaning Lady to abuse twin 11-year-old actors.
Timothy Busfield’s location is still unknown, going on four days after a warrant was issued for his arrest for alleged child sex abuse.
On Friday, January 9, the Albuquerque Police Department (ADP) issued the arrest warrant. It alleged that the West Wing and thirtysomething actor, 68, engaged in unlawful sexual conduct with twin actors, 11, whom he met on the set of The Cleaning Lady as a director. One of the unnamed brothers alleged that the abuse began when he was just 7.
As of late Monday, January 13, the APD told People that it was working with the U.S. Marshals Service to find and arrest Busfield. An ADP spokesperson told the publication, when asked if Busfield had been located or detained, “Not that I am aware.”
In the arrest warrant, officer Marvin Kirk Brown detailed, “In my training and experience, pedophiles often infiltrate families under a trusted role, like Timothy, who, as a producer, exploited the hectic film sets to tickle and touch SL on his penis and buttocks, masking it as play.”
Brown added, “He would invite the family to off-set gatherings, with his wife buying Christmas gifts to foster closeness, making SL feel special and dependent — classic grooming to erode boundaries, isolate the victim, and silence suspicions by blending abuse into normalcy. This dual tactic, charming parents while secretly violating the child, builds a web of complicity that is hard to unravel, delaying detection, as families trust the abuser’s facade.”
Busfield is best known for playing Danny Concannon in The West Wing and Elliot Weston in thirtysomething. He also notably portrayed Poindexter in Revenge of the Nerds (1984) and Mark in Field of Dreams (1989). Additionally, the actor has been married to Little House on the Prairie star Melissa Gilbert, 61, since 2013.
The Cleaning Lady aired for four seasons from 2022 to 2025.
If you or someone you know is the victim of sexual assault, contact the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network‘s National Helpline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673). If you or someone you know is the victim of child abuse, contact the Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline at 1-800-4-A-Child (1-800-422-4453). If you or a loved one are in immediate danger, call 911.