This punk refused to turn his cell phone over to the Chicago cops.
Instead he gave them his accounting of his phone records.
“couldn’t be without his phone for any time”,
That is where the cops really became suspicious.
This guy is toast. Lot of charges and the cops will want him to go down after making this shit up.
You can be sure there are phone calls made from Smollett to the brothers just prior to the attack. That's why he hid the phone records. He wasn't smart enough to know how easy it is to get the phone records from the phone company. They never really needed him to provide it, but by asking him for the phone, his response pretty much gave away the whole story.