Simpson jailed, accused of violating bail

Simpson was awaiting a Wednesday court hearing, when prosecutors planned to request that Simpson’s bail be revoked and he be kept in jail until trial, set for April.

The 60-year-old arrived in Las Vegas on Friday on a commercial flight from Florida with his bail bondsman, Miguel Pereira. He was taken in handcuffs by a police escort to the Clark County Detention Center.

Pereira said he was unhappy because he had not been paid for handling Simpson’s bail, and that he gave prosecutors a message Simpson wanted him to take to a co-defendant because he didn’t want to face criminal charges.

“He left a message instructing me to do something violating a court order,” the bondsman told The Associated Press after escorting Simpson from his home in Miami. “I don’t want to get involved in such a dilemma or a criminal act.”