Surveillance video shows Hernandez taking apart cell phone

February 17, 2015 5:58 pm

By: Melissa Randall
mrandall@abc6.com
@MRandallABC6

On Tuesday prosecutors showed surveillance video of Aaron Hernandez taking apart his cell phone. The images of the former New England Patriot were recorded one day after the death of Odin Lloyd.

In the video you can see Hernandez get into the passenger side of a car. He’s in a parking lot at the North Attleboro Police station with another man who had been identified as his lawyer. As police zoom in you can see the former patriot dismantling a cell phone the night after the murder.

“He’s using one phone— either texting or calling. The other is on his lap. Apart,” testified Detective Michael Elliott.

Hernandez himself agreed to a ‘stipulation of fact’ which allowed the video to be played in open court.

Prosecutors say the 25–year–old was given that second phone and was calling his co–defendant, Ernest Wallace. On cross examination the defense asked Detective Michael Elliott about the incident with that blackberry.

“Through your zoom, right, you saw him slide out the cover and pop out the back cover and pop out the battery,” asked James Sultan, Hernandez’s attorney. “Okay,” replied Elliott.

The jury also saw pictures of a different car Hernandez rented— the one with the missing mirror. It still has not been found.

Prosecutors also showed items discovered in a dumpster at ‘Enterprise‘. Among them were a paper drawing, blue gum, a water bottle and a .45 caliber shell casing. That’s the same caliber bullet used to kill Odin Lloyd in June of 2013. Hernandez has pleaded not guilty to the murder.

.22 caliber bullets were found in the basement of his North Attleboro home. A witness testified that Hernandez once asked him how to use the surveillance system in ‘the man cave.’

“He asked if it was possible to shut off the camera in the basement because he didn’t want his fiancé to see him hanging out with his friends,” said Mark Archambault, who installed the cameras.

The trial is taking longer than originally anticipated. That’s in part due to all the snow days. Proceedings Tuesday were also cut short due to bad weather.