THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: MrAngryFace on September 16, 2007, 07:14:43 PM
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20773318/
O.J. Simpson arrested in alleged robbery
Former football star faces multiple felony charges in memorabilia incident
LAS VEGAS - O.J. Simpson was arrested Sunday and faces multiple felony charges in an alleged armed robbery of collectors involving the former football great’s sports memorabilia, authorities said.
Simpson was arrested shortly after 11 a.m., Capt. James Dillon said.
Prosecutors were planning 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, said Clark County District Attorney David Roger.
A conviction on the most serious charge, robbery with use of a deadly weapon, could bring a sentence of three to 35 years for each count, he said.
“He is facing a lot of time,” Roger said.
Simpson was being held at Las Vegas police offices pending the arrival of his lawyer, who was expected later Sunday, Dillon said.
“He was very cooperative, there were no issues,” Dillon said.
At least one other person has been arrested and police said Sunday that as many as six people could be arrested in connection with the alleged armed robbery that occurred in a room inside the Palace Station casino-hotel on Thursday.
Simpson, 60, has said he and other people with him 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.”
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I hope the NAACP does the right thing. They need to first wait until they see if it was an armed robbery (it's a casino so there'll be security videos) and then they need to make the right choice and not take the "cops are evil" side.
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Hope he gets off again
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“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.”
That's an interesting way of phrasing it.
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When OJ gets to federal prison, he's going to be passed around like a peace pipe.
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he'll probably do a couple years if his lawyer can get them to lower the charges.
if not, the judges and prosecutors will probably try to go for the maximum sentence.
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When OJ gets to federal prison, he's going to be passed around like a peace pipe.
I'm actually surprised he hasn't already been killed by some Jack Ruby-type character. Dude has no security and loves walking around in public
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When OJ gets to federal prison, he's going to be passed around like a peace pipe.
I'm actually surprised he hasn't already been killed by some Jack Ruby-type character. Dude has no security and loves walking around in public
Your people would freak out if anything happened to him and there would be riots.
lolol