Sunday September 16, 2007
OJ Simpson at DJ Irie's birthday celebration at The Forge in Miami Beach, FL. June 20, 2007.
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Las Vegas police arrested O.J. Simpson Sunday in connection to an armed robbery. According to the AP, prosecutors plan to charge Simpson with two counts of robbery with use of a deadly weapon, conspiracy to commit robbery, burglary with a deadly weapon, two counts of assault with a deadly weapon and coercion. Clark County District Attorney David Roger told reporters that a conviction could earn Simpson anywhere from three to thirty-five years in jail on each count of the most serious charge, robbery with use of a deadly weapon. He is being held without bail at the order of a Las Vegas judge.
Former football star Simpson, who was found responsible for the murders of ex-wife Nicole Brown and waiter Ron Goldman by a civil jury in 1997, told the Los Angeles Times Sunday that he's innocent of any wrongdoing. "I'm not walking around feeling sad or anything. I've done nothing wrong," he said. Simpson's story? He and a group of friends were at Las Vegas' Palace Station Hotel & Casino to merely reclaim some of Simpson's sports memorabilia that he says was stolen from him by a former agent. He further claims that he did not break into any room, and that no one in his party was armed.
He told the Los Angeles Times, "I'm O.J. Simpson. How am I going to think that I'm going to rob somebody and get away with it? You've got to understand, this ain't somebody going to steal somebody's drugs or something like that. This is somebody going to get his private (belongings) back. That's it. That's not robbery."
Nonetheless, the AP says that police seized evidence related to the case, including two firearms, at a private residence today.
The arrest comes just as Simpson is back in the headlines again for his book about the Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman murders, If I Did It.
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