While Busfield turned himself in to authorities on January 13, he is not currently in jail.
Busfield was charged with two counts of sexual contact of a minor and child abuse months after the investigation began in November 2024, when a physician at the University of New Mexico Hospital alerted authorities to the alleged abuse.
The Albuquerque Police Department issued an arrest warrant on January 9 in connection with allegations involving 11-year-old twin brothers. One of the boys alleged the abuse began when he was just 7 years old, while one minor claimed Busfield touched him inappropriately on set when he was 8 years old.
Their parents told police “that they both discovered that there were allegations against Timothy of sexual assault against both women and minors,” and Busfield allegedly “grew closer to the boys.”
Per the warrant, the children’s father discovered “there had been multiple rumors that Timothy had been ‘handsy’ with women.”
When the mother asked her sons if anyone had ever touched them in a manner that made them uncomfortable, one of the children reportedly responded, “You mean like Uncle Tim (Busfield)?”
“[Officer Marvin Kirk Brown] asked Timothy if he ever had any physical contact with these boys and if he ever picked them up and tickled them,” the warrant read. “Timothy said it was highly likely that he would have.”
The boys’ mother filed a police report in October 2025 and told Child Protective Services that “her children both disclosed that there was sexual abuse by Timothy from around November 2022 to Spring 2024.”
On January 13, APD confirmed the U.S. Marshals had joined the effort to locate Busfield after authorities issued a warrant for his arrest. The Revenge of the Nerds actor turned himself in around 2:30 p.m. that day, and he was booked into the Metropolitan Detention Center in Albuquerque.
“He wants to turn himself in because he wants to clear his name and reputation,” Busfield’s attorney, Larry Stein, said at the time. “He didn’t do anything wrong. These accusations are false, as the investigator from the independent law firm found.”
At the time, Busfield faced a second allegation, accusing him of groping a 16-year-old girl who was auditioning for a theater program in Sacramento, California, several years earlier.