OJ Simpson Officially Charged With Armed Robbery
Late last week, sports memorabilia dealer Alfred Beardsley reported to police that he had been the victim of a robbery in which the thieves took all of the sports memorabilia items that he had in his Las Vegas hotel room. The robbery, he said, was not by a random person interested in his sports memorabilia, but by OJ Simpson and a few of his heavies.
OJ Simpson was initially questioned by police and characterized the incident as a private sting operation that he had organized in order to recover some items that he says belong to him. The Juice denied Beardsley’s claims that his thugs had guns or roughed up anyone during the incident.
The media reports about the case got a little wobbly yesterday when Alfred Beardsley seemed to back off his story a bit and announced that he was on OJ’s side. Later, Beardsley said that his comments pertained to events prior to the robbery and that he does fully intend to press charges and testify against Simpson. Now, he is reportedly saying that he is sad that OJ is in jail, whatever that means. I’m taking his comments to the media with a grain of salt now.
One of Simpson’s alleged accomplices in the robbery was arrested last night and the DA has reportedly told his attorney that he has one week in which to decide if he would like to work out a plea deal. Sources close to the case say that if the cops have the evidence, this guy will likely turn on Simpson and agree to testify against him.
Today Simpson was arrested in Las Vegas and has been reportedly charged with 2 counts of assault with a deadly weapon, 2 counts of robbery with a deadly weapon, one count of burglary with the use of a deadly weapon and one count of conspiracy to commit robbery with a deadly weapon.
Word out of Las Vegas tonight is that the judge has denied bail for Simpson.
