O.J. Simpson Is Charged In Alleged Robbery

Police said they had recovered two handguns that were allegedly used in the incident, some of the alleged stolen property and some of the clothing worn by the suspects.

Las Vegas police are seeking four other men, said Capt. James Dillon, who heads the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department's robbery and homicide bureau. Lt. Clint Nichols of the department described the men as having "a social relationship" with Simpson, but denied reports that they were off-duty police officers.

Simpson was arrested at his room at the posh Palms resort, and led away in handcuffs. The arrest took place "without incident," said Dillon.

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 to be unhelpful ever since the murders of Brown Simpson and Goldman in June 1994.

"The police, since my trouble, have not worked out for me," he said. Whenever he has called the police, he said, "It just becomes a story about O.J."

Asked by CNN for his reaction to Simpson's arrest yesterday, Goldman's father, Fred Goldman, said, "I guess the obvious answer is ' out-standing.' He's finally been arrested for something that if I'm lucky, if we're all lucky, he'll go to jail for. Unfortunately, it's not for murder."

Simpson's latest legal travail comes as his controversial book, "If I Did It," about the 1994 murders, is being published. Simpson wrote the book for a company owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., but the project was dropped last year amid public outrage.

Fred Goldman subsequently won the right to publish the book after a legal battle. Simpson owes the Goldman family more than $38 million as a result of a wrongful-death civil judgment against him in 1997, but the Goldman family has received less than $10,000 from Simpson, who has protected many of his assets from seizure.

The book, newly subtitled "Confessions of the Killer," was ranked No. 2 on Amazon.com's bestseller list yesterday, behind former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan's memoir, "The Age of Turbulence."

Calls to Simpson's attorneys, and to Fred Goldman and Denise Brown, Nicole Brown Simpson's sister, were not returned yesterday.