OJ Simpson arrested
2007-09-16 20:45
Los Angeles - Las Vegas police
arrested former football star OJ Simpson on Sunday in
connection with a hotel room break-in, CNN said.
A source with the Las Vegas Police Department told CNN
Simpson was taken into custody at The Palms hotel.
Celebrity website TMZ.com, citing unidentified sources,
said several men broke into a memorabilia dealer's room on
Thursday night and held the dealer at gunpoint while they took
memorabilia once owned by Simpson and other sports stars.
Simpson was among the men, according to the story on TMZ.com.
The details could not be confirmed.
Police arrested a man who was with Simpson during the
alleged armed robbery, The Las Vegas Review-Journal newspaper
reported on Sunday.
Media have reported that Simpson has said he went to the
hotel room to recover items that had been stolen from him.
Simpson was acquitted in 1995 of killing his ex-wife,
Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman, in June
1994.
But a California jury later ruled in a civil suit brought
by the victims' families that he was responsible for their
deaths and ordered him to pay $33.5m in damages.