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U.S. NEWS Monday 2 october 2017

OJ Simpson is freed, with no word on where he went next

Continued from Front partment “has not received I certainly want conditions with the AP that they had advised it would be
any transfer paperwork placed on him.”Simpson’s thought Simpson should no earlier than Monday
Keast recorded and re- from Nevada” about Simp- attorney, Malcolm stay out of public view and and possibly in Las Vegas,
leased a brief video on so- a 450-mile (720-kilometer)
cial media in which Simp- drive south of the commu-
son is told to “come on out” nity of Lovelock.
and he responds “OK” after Simpson faces restrictions
walking through an open during five years of parole
door and toward a park- supervision, which could
ing lot bordered by desert be reduced for good be-
scrub brush. havior. He cannot use il-
“I don’t have any infor- legal drugs and can drink
mation on where he’s go- alcohol only if the amount
ing,” said Keast, who also he drinks is below Nevada’s
took photographs showing blood-alcohol limit for driv-
Simpson — in blue jeans, ing. He also is prohibited
denim jacket, eyeglasses, from associating with felons
ball cap and white sneak- or anyone who Nevada of-
ers — signing documents ficials prohibit him contact-
about 10 minutes before ing. And he must tell the
midnight. He left the prison state where he’ll be living
with four or five boxes of and when he changes his
possessions in the car, she residence. The conditions
said. still apply if Simpson ends
Tom Scotto, a Simpson up out of state.
friend who lives in Naples, Simpson lost his home
Florida, said by text mes- In this July 20, 2017 photo, former NFL football star O.J. Simpson reacts after learning he was near Miami to foreclosure
sage an hour after the granted parole during a hearing at the Lovelock Correctional Center in Lovelock, Nev. Simpson in 2012. But two of his chil-
release that he was with was granted parole after more than eight years in prison for a Las Vegas hotel heist. A Nevada dren, Justin and Sydney,
Simpson. prison official said early Sunday, Oct. 1, 2017, O.J. Simpson, the former football legend and also live in Florida.
But Scotto did not answer Hollywood star, has been released from a Nevada prison in Lovelock after serving nine years for It’s all a new chapter for
armed robbery.
texts asking where they (Jason Bean/The Reno Gazette via AP, Pool) the one-time pop culture
were going or whether phenomenon whose fame
members of Simpson’s fam- son that would be required LaVergne, and state Pa- focus on family and friends. was once again on dis-
ily were with them. for him to live in the state role and Probation Capt. Keast said the overnight re- play when the major TV
Along with Simpson’s sister and be monitored there, Shawn Arruti, who has lease from the prison about networks carried his parole
and oldest daughter, Scot- spokeswoman Ashley Cook been handling Simpson’s 90 miles (145 kilometers) hearing live.
to had attended the July said Sunday. case, did not respond Sun- east of Reno, Nevada, was He told officials that lead-
parole hearing at the same Though Florida’s attorney day to messages seeking conducted to avoid media ing a group of five men into
prison where Simpson went general has urged correc- comment about Simpson’s attention. No media were the hotel room confronta-
after his conviction for a tions officials to object to whereabouts. near the front gate at the tion was an error in judg-
botched 2007 heist at a Las Simpson’s return, the de- LaVergne said recently that time when Simpson’s car ment he would not repeat.
Vegas hotel room — prison partment previously has Simpson looked forward left the prison by a back Simpson told the parole
time he avoided after his said it would be required to to reuniting with his family, road and entered nearby board that he led a “con-
1995 acquittal in the kill- accept a transfer if it met eating a steak and sea- Interstate 80, she said. flict-free life,” an assertion
ings of his ex-wife and her certain criteria. food and returning to Flor- “We needed to do this to that angered many who
friend. “We understand we may ida. Simpson also planned ensure public safety and believe he got away with
The 70-year-old Simpson have to take him, if he was to get an iPhone and get to avoid any possible inci- killing his ex-wife, Nicole
said at the hearing that he a model prisoner. And two reacquainted with technol- dent,” Keast said. Brown Simpson, and her
wanted to move back to of his children live here, so ogy in its infancy when he She acknowledged Ne- friend, Ronald Goldman, in
Florida, where he lived pre- that’s his hook for coming was sent to prison in 2008, vada prison officials misled Los Angeles in 1994. He was
viously. That return did not to Florida,” state Attorney his attorney said. the media with word about acquitted the following
appear imminent. General Pam Bondi said. Both LaVergne and Scotto the timing and location of year in what was dubbed
Florida’s Corrections De- “If we have to accept him, said in recent interviews Simpson’s release. They the “trial of the century.”q