Investigators questioned OJ Simpson about a break-in at a casino hotel room involving sports memorabilia, police said Friday.
The break-in was reported at the Palace Station casino late on Thursday, police spokesperson Jose Montoya said.
Simpson was released and is believed to be in Las Vegas, Montoya said.
”We don’t believe he’s going anywhere,” he said.
A Simpson attorney in Florida, Yale Galanter, did not immediately return phone messages seeking comment.
The Heisman Trophy winner and ex-National Football League star had been scheduled to give a deposition on Friday in Miami in a bankruptcy case involving his eldest daughter. But it was cancelled because Simpson had told attorneys that he would be out of town.
Las Vegas police said investigators also questioned the alleged victims in the incident.
Montoya said the investigator’s report would be turned over to the Clark County district attorney on Friday. The district attorney’s office would then decide whether to pursue an arrest warrant in the case.
Simpson’s trial and acquittal in 1995 of killing his ex-wife, Nicole, and her friend, Ronald Goldman, fascinated America and was divisive across racial lines, with many black Americans believing he was innocent and was being persecuted, and many white Americans believing his celebrity status swayed the case.
Simpson has maintained his innocence in the 1994 killings in Los Angeles, but the Goldman family won a $38-million wrongful-death judgement in a civil lawsuit against Simpson. — Sapa-AP