NEW ALBANY — Floyd County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested a man at his home Wednesday on a warrant for failing to appear for a court hearing earlier this month.

Anthony W. Casey, 29, of the 100 block of Gordon Drive in New Albany, was scheduled to be in court on charges of theft, a class D felony, and activity related to obscene performance, a class A misdemeanor.

New Albany police filed a probable cause affidavit June 28, following an incident that originated days earlier outside of Mac’s Hideaway on Slate Run Road. The affidavit was drafted after a woman made a report with police accusing Casey of stealing her cell phone, using the phone to record himself masturbating, then posting the video on her Facebook page and emailing the video to her friends, family members and children’s principal and other faculty members of North Harrison Community Schools.

The woman told police, according to the affidavit, that she was outside of Mac’s Hideaway on June 23, and had left her purse behind while she went inside of the establishment. She said that while she was inside, Casey stole her phone from her purse. The woman told police she knew that Casey had taken the phone because he had made several calls to people in Mac’s Hideaway. She also accused Casey of spending $86 of her money by using her smartphone.

According to the affidavit, the woman exchanged text messages with Casey, who was using her phone. She told police that Casey stated that he was sorry for taking the phone and he would give it back to her. The woman was able to find out Casey’s address and went to his home where she spoke with his mother who told her the phone was in his bedroom.

New Albany police met the woman at the home, at which time Casey’s mother produced the phone and apologized to the woman for her son’s behavior, according to the affidavit. The woman then showed the officer the video of Casey masturbating that he had emailed to her contacts.

After police left the residence, Casey called police and admitted, “he screwed up because he drank too much,” according to the affidavit. He also told police he did not mean to steal the phone and that he was extremely intoxicated at the time.

Officers asked Casey about making the lewd video, and he said he did not remember filming himself or sending the video and that he had blacked out from too much alcohol.

Casey has a pretrial conference scheduled for Oct. 3 in Floyd County Superior Court No. 3.