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NEW ORLEANS: Russell Brand was taken into aegis by New Orleans badge on Thursday and appointed for simple bent accident afterwards a columnist accused the British amateur and amateur of avaricious his iPhone and casting it through a window, authorities said.

Bail was set at $5,000 for Brand, said New Orleans badge agent Officer Garry Flot. Brand was appear anon afterwards his arrest, according to the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office.

Celebrity website TMZ acquaint photos of "Get Him to the Greek" brilliant Brand, in a aphotic anorak and
burst jeans affairs an iPhone from a man in a car. Another photo on the armpit shows a burst window through which Brand was said to accept befuddled the phone.

The paparazzi columnist filed a badge address over the incident, which happened on Monday.

Flot said he did not apperceive area Brand was arrested or whether the amateur angry himself or was taken into aegis adjoin his will.

A agent for Brand could not be accomplished for comment.

But Brand dedicated himself with an acrid animadversion on his Twitter folio on Wednesday. "Since Steve Jobs died I cannot buck to see anyone use an iPhone irreverently, what I did was a accolade to his memory," Brand said.

Brand and pop brilliant Katy Perry accomplished their high-profile annulment beforehand this year, catastrophe a alliance that lasted aloof over a year.

The brilliant of such films as "Arthur" and "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" has had abundant run-ins with the law over the years, and he has been accessible about his accomplished biologic use.

Last year, he was abandoned from Japan over his bent history back he was aggravating to appointment Perry on her concert bout in the country. In 2010, he was arrested for an declared advance on a paparazzi at a Los Angeles airport.