Parker-Broderick surrogate takes stand in Ohio

A police officer later testified that Carpenter, 32, told him, "I didn't take anything out of that house."

The tapes show Carpenter laughed when a state agent told him about the criminal investigation and later began crying during questioning.

Carpenter said on the tapes that he saw some "off the wall" items inside, including the plaster abdominal cast, when he entered Ross' home, and that he secured it and left.

Carpenter said Dojack called him and said paparazzi wanted information about the surrogate and would pay $20,000 for items. He said that he talked to the Belmont County prosecutor about it and that he didn't want anything to do with the photographers.

"They did hound me, and they were really wanting this stuff," Carpenter said.

The prosecutor, Chris Berhalter, testified that Carpenter called him to talk about a photo taken at Ross' home.

On the tapes, Carpenter told the investigator that he met with the photographers to tell them Ross did not live in the city anymore and that he refused to sell them anything.

When the investigator told Carpenter: "We have taped conversations of you offering to sell those items to paparazzi," the chief said he was joking.

A celebrity photographer testified Tuesday that Carpenter told him he had access to items belonging to Ross and that he never thought the chief was joking.

Carpenter faces several felony charges, including burglary, receiving stolen property and theft in office. He could face 21 1/2 years in prison if convicted on all counts.

Dojack faces counts of complicity to burglary and complicity to receiving stolen property. His trial is set for January.

Parker, star of TV's "Sex and the City," and film actor Broderick are raising the twin girls, named Tabitha and Marion. They are not expected to testify.

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