Brian Laundrie's conflicting stories about cellphone
Laundrie's lawyer said he bought a new phone three days after returning home to North Port
By Paul Best | Fox News
An attorney for Brian Laundrie, Steven Bertolino, confirmed Thursday that the 23-year-old bought a new cellphone on Sept. 4, three days after he returned to Florida without his fiancee, Gabby Petito, whose remains were found in Wyoming on Sept. 19.
Bertolino said that Laundrie left the new phone at home when he went for a hike on Sept. 14 and never returned, but the attorney said he is unsure what happened to Laundrie’s old phone — the one he had on his cross-country road trip with Petito.
An Aug. 12 domestic altercation between Laundrie and Petito in Moab, Utah, began with a fight over a phone, according to a witness.
"They were talking aggressively [at] each other [and] something definitely seemed off," the witness wrote in the statement to police. "At one point, they were sort of fighting over a phone – I think the male took the female’s phone. It appeared that he didn’t want her in the white van."
Later, after the couple was pulled over, Laundrie told officers that he did not have a phone, and was afraid Petito would leave him without a way to communicate.
"I was holding onto the keys because I didn’t want to go anywhere, and my big fear is — I don’t have my phone. I don’t have a phone. So if she goes off without me (inaudible), I’m on my own," Laundrie told the officers.
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