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[FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif]Simpson Named Suspect in Casino Break-In[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif]Sep 14, 12:54 PM (ET)[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif]By KATHLEEN HENNESSEY[/FONT]



[FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif]LAS VEGAS (AP) - Investigators questioned O.J. Simpson and named him a suspect Friday in a break-in at a casino hotel room involving sports memorabilia. [/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif]The break-in was reported at the Palace Station casino late Thursday night, police spokesman Jose Montoya said. He said investigators determined the break-in involved sports collectibles. [/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif]"When they talked to him, Simpson made the comment that he believed the memorabilia was his," Montoya said. "We're getting conflicting stories from the two sides." [/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif]Simpson was released after he and several associates were questioned, but he is considered a suspect in the case, Montoya said. He is believed to be in Las Vegas. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif] [FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif](AP) The Palace Station hotel & casino is shown in Las Vegas on Friday, Sept. 14, 2007. Police...[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif]Full Image[/FONT]"We don't believe he's going anywhere," he said.

The Heisman Trophy winner, ex-NFL star and actor lives near Miami and has been a tabloid staple since his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman were killed in 1994. Simpson was acquitted of murder charges, but a jury later held him liable for the killings in a wrongful death lawsuit.

Simpson has had to auction off his sports collectibles, including his Heisman Trophy, to pay some of the $33.5 million judgment awarded to the Goldman family.

On Thursday, the Goldman family published a book about the killings that Simpson had written under the title, "If I Did It," about how he would have committed the crime had he actually done it. After a deal for Simpson to publish it fell through, a federal bankruptcy judge awarded the book's rights to the Goldman family, who retitled it "If I Did It: The Confessions of a Killer."

Fred Goldman, Ron's Goldman's father, defended the family's decision to publish the book. He noted Simpson's penchant for breaking headlines.
"He brings attention to himself every time we turn around and he will continue to do that forever," Goldman said Friday on NBC's "Today Show."

Investigators in the casino case planned to give their report to prosecutors Friday, Montoya said. The district attorney's office will decide whether to pursue charges.

Simpson had been scheduled to give a deposition Friday in Miami in a bankruptcy case involving his eldest daughter. But it was rescheduled because Simpson had told attorneys that he would be out of town.

Patricia Jones, a woman at the Florida office of Simpson attorney Yale L. Galanter who identified herself as Galanter's associate, said Galanter was out of town and had been forwarded messages seeking comment.

The Palace Station, an aging property just west of the Las Vegas Strip, is one of several Station Casinos-owned resorts that cater to locals. The 1,000-room hotel-casino, with a 21-story tower and adjacent buildings, opened in 1976.
A company spokeswoman did not immediately return a call for comment.
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[theogt]

I saw this posted on another site and thought it was just a joke. This is truly bizarre.

 

[Doomsday101]

Did they find a glove in the room?

 

[Hostile]

He thought the memorabilia was his?

In someone else's hotel suite?

I am thoroughly ashamed of having idolized him as a kid.

 

[WoodysGirl]

Just a side note, I don't think I would have published the book.

 

[peplaw06]

This was THE story during lunch on Fox News... Apparently they've been talking to a guy who was on the phone with someone who was in the room when OJ and crew broke in. The guy on the line immediately said, "Put down the guns." Then someone asked where Mike Gilbert was. Mike Gilbert was a guy who handled some of OJ's memorabilia.

Apprently some of his stuff was going to be auctioned off, and he felt that it was his, so he wanted it.

But as of now, looks like he's a suspect for armed robbery.

 

[WV Cowboy]

He thought the memorabilia was his?

In someone else's hotel suite?

I am thoroughly ashamed of having idolized him as a kid.

Idolized him??

I named my dog after him!

 

[GTaylor]

I think what happened was OJ watched Oceans 11 and thought "Hey, I could do that"

 

[PosterChild]

Time to warm up the Bronco!

 

[Mavs Man]

"What a maroon!"

 

[DallasCowpoke]

Idolized him??

I named my dog after him!

"Slasher" is kinda an odd name for a dog, ain't it!?

 

[Big Dakota]

Time to warm up the Bronco!

Oh man, post of the day.



Paging Mr.Cowlings

 

[Big Dakota]

I watched Goldman on Larry King a few months ago and he said they have NEVER received a penny on that wrongful death lawsuit. At least that's what he claimed.

 

[GTaylor]

I watched Goldman on Larry King a few months ago and he said they have NEVER received a penny on that wrongful death lawsuit. At least that's what he claimed.

He's correct in that OJ hasn't paid him, however some of OJ's memobilia has been sold and I think the money goes to them (I think). OJ is living on pension from the NFL and that can't be touched, any other income he receives he immediately tries to send to either an off-shore acct., spends it or has it paid out to someone else. He's bragged many times that he'll never willingly pay the suit, classy guy.

On a sorta OT note, I remember when OJ moved to Miami, this idiot called a press conference in front of his house and asked the media to give him privacy. It was almost a parody the way he was handling it "Yeah, media and regular folks - see my house right behind me...yes, the one with the red door with a sign in front says "I live next to a killer", no not that house, the one next to it...right, 123 Killer lane, my house. Anyways, leave me alone and people don't come visit me. I deserve a private life"

 

[Big Dakota]

He's correct in that OJ hasn't paid him, however some of OJ's memobilia has been sold and I think the money goes to them (I think). OJ is living on pension from the NFL and that can't be touched, any other income he receives he immediately tries to send to either an off-shore acct., spends it or has it paid out to someone else. He's bragged many times that he'll never willingly pay the suit, classy guy.

On a sorta OT note, I remember when OJ moved to Miami, this idiot called a press conference in front of his house and asked the media to give him privacy. It was almost a parody the way he was handling it "Yeah, media and regular folks - see my house right behind me...yes, the one with the red door with a sign in front says "I live next to a killer", no not that house, the one next to it...right, 123 Killer lane, my house. Anyways, leave me alone and people don't come visit me. I deserve a private life"

Pretty funny

 

[Big Dakota]

Man accusing Simpson of robbery now 'on O.J.'s side'

Associated Press






Updated: September 15, 2007,

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- A sports memorabilia collector who accused O.J. Simpson of armed robbery said Saturday that he was "on O.J.'s side" and wanted the case dropped.
"I want this thing to go away. I have health problems," said Alfred Beardsley, the collector who told police on Thursday that Simpson and several other men stormed a Las Vegas hotel room and stole memorabilia at gunpoint.
Beardsley, of Burbank, Calif., indicated Saturday that he was not interested in pursuing the case.
"I have no desire to fly back and forth to Las Vegas to prosecute this," he told The Associated Press. "How are they going to have a witness who's on O.J.'s side?"
Beardsley said he called police only because the items were valuable and if he had not reported them as stolen he would be "held accountable for all the stuff."
Police said they had been in touch with Beardsley, who had not formally withdrawn his complaint.
Even if he does, "we still have a responsibility to investigate. He was not the only victim," Lt. Clint Nichols said. Another collector in the room, Bruce Fromong, had not indicated that he wants to drop the complaint.
Earlier, Las Vegas police said they were questioning one of the three or four men who was thought to have accompanied Simpson to the hotel room. No arrests had been made and police were still trying to determine what took place before Simpson left the room with memorabilia he says was stolen from him, Nichols said. Police think a weapon was involved and they want to review hotel surveillance tapes to help sort it out.
That will include unraveling the contorted relationships between the erstwhile athlete and a cadre of collectors that has profited from his infamy since he was found liable in the deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman.
At least one of the men considered Simpson a close friend. One had been his licensing agent. Another had collected Simpson items for years.
But times have changed.
In a Saturday phone interview with AP, Simpson declared: "None of these guys are friends of mine."
Beardsley was once a Simpson defender and ally but had recently appeared "sympathetic" with the families of people Simpson was accused of killing, an attorney for the family of Ron Goldman said.
Another sports collector, Bruce Fromong, once testified for the defense in the civil trial brought by the families of Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson. Now Fromong says Simpson robbed him, along with Beardsley, at gunpoint in the room at the Palace Station casino.
Simpson, 60, said he was just trying to retrieve memorabilia, particularly photos of his wife and children. There were no guns, he told The Associated Press. There was no break-in, he said.
The man Simpson accused of stealing the items from him is Mike Gilbert, another one-time associate. As Simpson's licensing agent in the late 1990s, Gilbert admitted snatching Simpson's Heisman Trophy and other items from his client's Brentwood home as payment for money he said was owed to him. He later turned the items over to authorities, save the trophy's nameplate.
Gilbert swore he'd go to jail before turning the nameplate over to the Goldman family, which was trying to collect on the $33.5 million civil judgment won against Simpson. Gilbert later surrendered it under court order.
He apparently remained tight with his client through the ordeal.
"It has absolutely not affected our relationship at all," Gilbert said in October 1997.
Since then, according to Simpson, their relationship has changed. Simpson told AP he believes Gilbert stole items from a storage locker once held in Simpson's mother's name.
Attempts to reach Gilbert by phone were unsuccessful.
Simpson, who lives in Miami, said he expected to find the stolen items when he went to an arranged meeting Thursday.
The man who arranged the meeting, according to Simpson, was another man who makes a living on the fringes of the celebrity.
Thomas Riccio, a well-known memorabilia dealer, made headlines when his auction house, Corona, Calif.-based Universal Rarities, handled the eBay auction of Anna Nicole Smith's handwritten diaries.
Simpson said Riccio called him several weeks ago to inform him that people "have a lot of your stuff and they don't want anyone to know they are selling it," Simpson said.
Along with the personal photos, Simpson expected to find one item in particular: the suit he was wearing when he was acquitted of murder charges in 1995.
It's not clear where they got the suit, but Beardsley, a former real estate agent and longtime Simpson collector, and Fromong had been trying to sell it for several months. They'd recently tried eBay and the celebrity gossip Web site TMZ.com.
Goldman family attorney David Cook said Beardsley called him several times with the hopes of arranging a deal.
"When I spoke with him, my impression was that he was very sympathetic to the Goldmans," Cook said.
That's not the position Beardsley, who once tried to arrange lucrative autograph signings for Simpson, took in 1999, before a major auction of Simpson's sports collectibles, including his Heisman.
"It bothers me that I'm putting money in the Goldman and Brown pockets," Beardsley told the AP. "I believe he's not responsible for this crime, and I think there are a lot of people who believe that."
It was perhaps such statements that made it hard for Simpson to believe that Beardsley and Fromong were now attempting to profit off his personal items, which he says include the wedding video from Simpson's first marriage.
In an interview with TMZ.com, Beardsley noted that during the alleged robbery in the hotel room Simpson appeared surprised the pair were the ones selling the items.
"Simpson was saying that 'I liked you, I thought you were a good guy,"' Beardsley said.
Very quickly the relationship between the collectors and the celebrity were shifting once again. On Saturday, Beardsley said he had spoken with Simpson since the incident. He called to apologize, Beardsley said.
As questions swirled around the curious cast of characters and their tumultuous meeting, media scrutiny and public interest that has dogged the fallen athlete was in full swing.
By Saturday afternoon, Simpson's new book, "If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer," was the top seller on Amazon.com.
None of the men will profit from the book's sales. After a deal for Simpson to publish it fell through, a federal bankruptcy judge awarded the book's rights to the Goldman family.
Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press

 

[jackrussell]

Man accusing Simpson of robbery now 'on O.J.'s side'

I'm sure he's made this decision of his own free will.

Not like anyone would be holding a gun to his head.

A knife to the throat on the other hand...

 

[peplaw06]

Man accusing Simpson of robbery now 'on O.J.'s side'

That's fun and all but it's out of his hands now. If the DA thinks the case deserves to be prosecuted, it will be.

 

[jackrussell]

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[FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif]O.J. Simpson Arrested in Vegas Robbery[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif]Sep 16, 9:24 PM (ET)[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif]By RYAN NAKASHIMA[/FONT]



[FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif]LAS VEGAS (AP) - Police arrested O.J. Simpson on Sunday, saying he was part of an armed group who burst into Las Vegas hotel room and snatched memorabilia that documented his own sports career, long ago eclipsed by scandal. [/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif]Simpson was taken away from The Palms casino-hotel by plainclothes officers a day after the arrest of a golfing buddy who police say accompanied him with a gun in the Thursday night holdup. Handcuffed and wearing a golf shirt and jeans, Simpson was placed in an SUV. [/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif]"He was very cooperative, there were no issues," Capt. James Dillon said. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif]Simpson was to be booked on two counts of robbery with a deadly weapon, two counts of assault with a deadly weapon, conspiracy to commit burglary and burglary with a firearm, police said. The district attorney, meanwhile, said he expected Simpson to ultimately be charged with seven felonies and one gross misdemeanor. [/FONT]

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[FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif]Full Image[/FONT]If convicted of the booking charges, Simpson would face up to 30 years in state prison on each robbery count alone.
"He is facing a lot of time," said Clark County District Attorney David Roger.

Simpson, 60, has said he and other people were retrieving items that belonged to him. Simpson has said there were no guns involved and that he went to the room at the casino only to get stolen mementos that included his Hall of Fame certificate and a picture of the running back with J. Edgar Hoover.

Simpson told The Associated Press on Saturday that he did not call the police to help reclaim the items because he has found the police unresponsive to him ever since his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman, were killed in 1994.

"The police, since my trouble, have not worked out for me," he said, noting that whenever he has called the police "It just becomes a story about O.J."
Police did not allege that Simpson personally carried a weapon in the incident.

"We don't have any information to lead us to believe he was armed even based on those charges," said police Lt. Clint Nichols.

Police said they seized two firearms involved in the robbery along with sports memorabilia, mostly signed by Simpson. They also said they recovered collectible baseballs and Joe Montana cleats at private residences early Sunday on three search warrants. But "whether the property belonged to Mr. Simpson is a matter of debate," Nichols said.

Walter Alexander, 46, of Mesa, Ariz., was arrested Saturday night on two counts of robbery with a deadly weapon, two counts of assault with a deadly weapon, conspiracy to commit robbery and burglary with a deadly weapon. Alexander, who was described as one of Simpson's golfing buddies, was released without bail Saturday night.

"Walter was one of the two subjects who had a gun," Capt. James Dillon said.
Robert Dennis Rentzer, a Los Angeles lawyer representing Alexander, said he was able to arrange his client's release from custody, but wasn't familiar with the allegations.

Police also are seeking four men: Clarence Stewart, Michael McClinton, Tom Scotty and another white male adult who was not identified. Authorities did not provide ages or hometowns for any of the men.

Simpson, a Heisman Trophy winner, ex-NFL star and actor, lives near Miami and has been a tabloid staple since his ex-wife and Goldman were killed. Simpson was acquitted of murder charges, but a jury later held him liable for the killings in a wrongful death lawsuit.

Goldman's father, Ron Goldman, welcomed the possibility that Simpson could go to prison.

"He's believed for years, decades, that he's entitled to do anything he wants, and the legal system and society has basically agreed with him," Goldman said. "This time, hopefully, he'll get what he deserves. He'll get jail time."

Police said Sunday that Simpson asked to speak with his lawyer before proceeding with an interview, although he spoke several times with investigators before his arrest. Simpson's lawyer, Yale Galanter, did not immediately return calls for comment after the arrest.

Simpson said auction house owner Tom Riccio called him several weeks ago to say some collectors were selling some of his items. Riccio set up a meeting with collectors under the guise that he had a private collector interested in buying Simpson's items.

Simpson said he was accompanied by several men he met at a wedding cocktail party, and they took the collectibles.

Alfred Beardsley, one of the sports memorabilia collectors who was in the hotel room, has said he wants the case dropped and that he's "on O.J.'s side."

Simpson's arrest came just days after the Goldman family published a book that Simpson had written under the title, "If I Did It" about how he would have committed the killings of his ex-wife and Goldman had he actually done it.

After a deal for Simpson to publish it fell through, a federal bankruptcy judge awarded the book's rights to the Goldman family, who retitled it "If I Did It: The Confessions of the Killer." During the weekend, the book was the hottest seller in the country, hitting No. 1 on Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com.
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[peplaw06]

ESPN quote from OJ:

I didn't do it. I'm OJ Simpson, do you really think I would be dumb enough to do something and think i could get away with it. I thought what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas

I'm paraphrasing the first two sentences, but the last one is exactly what he said. Talk about dumb.

It's like "I didn't do it... wait, yeah I did, but you're not supposed to know about it."