FILE - In this March 4, 2012 file photo, Russell Brand arrives to Amnesty International's "Secret Policeman's Ball" in New York. New Orleans police have issued an arrest warrant for actor Russell Brand on a charge of simple criminal damage to property valued at $700. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, file)
FILE - In this March 4, 2012 file photo, Russell Brand arrives to Amnesty International's "Secret Policeman's Ball" in New York. New Orleans police have issued an arrest warrant for actor Russell Brand on a charge of simple criminal damage to property valued at $700. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, file)
FILE - In this Oct. 13, 2010 file photo, actor Russell Brand appears at a book signing for his memoir "My Booky Wook 2" at Barnes & Noble in New York. Police in New Orleans have issued an arrest warrant Tuesday, March 15, 2012, for Brand, who is in the city to film an untitled movie. He faces a charge of simple criminal damage to property valued at $700. The incident happened on Monday, March 12, 2012, and involved a confrontation with a photographer who was trying to take Brand's photo from a car. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, file)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) ? Actor Russell Brand turned himself in Thursday afternoon to New Orleans police after an arrest warrant was issued for him on a charge of simple criminal damage to property valued at $700, authorities said.
Brand posted bond and was released from jail Thursday afternoon, said police spokesman Frank Robertson. Bond had been set at $5,000, he said.
Police issued the warrant earlier Thursday for Brand, who is in New Orleans to film an untitled movie.
Police spokeswoman Remi Braden on Thursday could not immediately release details of what happened Monday. Celebrity website TMZ said the charges stem from a confrontation with a photographer who was trying to take Brand's photo from a car.
In a Twitter posting on Wednesday, Brand wrote, "Since Steve Jobs died I cannot bear to see anyone use an iphone irreverently, what I did was a tribute to his memory."
Neither Brand nor his publicist could immediately be reached for comment.
Brand's film credits include "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" and "Get Him to the Greek." A judge recently granted him a divorce from singer Katy Perry.
Mandate Pictures, which is producing the untitled comedy in New Orleans, said it is being directed by "Young Adult" and "Juno" writer Diablo Cody.
The film also stars two-time "Dancing With the Stars" champ Julianne Hough, Octavia Spencer, who recently won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in the movie "The Help," as well as Nick Offerman and Holly Hunter.
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