A California man who accused former US football star O.J. Simpson
of robbing him in a Las Vegas hotel was arrested Wednesday on a
parole violation, authorities said.
US Marshals Service deputies took Alfred Beardsley into custody
Wednesday morning at a Luxor Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas after
his parole officer saw him on television giving interviews to the
media about the Simpson case.
The Los Angeles sports memorabilia collector is being held in a
detention center while awaiting extradition back to California.
Beardsley last week accused Simpson and other armed men of
breaking in his Las Vegas hotel room and stealing sports
memorabilia at gunpoint, leading the arrest of the former football
star on Sunday. Simpson was released earlier Wednesday after
posting a bail.
Simpson has said that he was trying to retrieve stolen items
that belonged to him, and the Thursday incident was a set-up by
some collectors from California.
It turned out that Beardsley himself was on parole on a stalking
conviction in which he was sentenced to two years in prison in
2005. He was paroled in March 2006, and was scheduled to remain on
parole until March 2009.
As a condition of his parole, Beardsley was not supposed to
leave California without written approval from his parole
officer.?
(Xinhua News Agency September 20, 2007)
