Prosecutors file charges against O.J.

Simpson was arrested Sunday after a collector reported a group of armed men charged into his hotel room and took several items Simpson claimed belonged to him.

Simpson, 60, was booked on suspicion of assault and robbery with a deadly weapon. Clark County District Attorney David Roger filed those charges and added kidnapping and conspiracy to commit kidnapping, according to court documents.

Simpson, who was accused along with three other men, was also charged with one misdemeanor. He faces the possibility of life in prison if convicted.

He was being held without bail and was scheduled to be arraigned today in the robbery reported at the Palace Station casino.

According to the charges, Simpson and the others went to the room under the pretext of brokering a deal with the men. Once in the room, Simpson prevented one of the collectors from calling 911 on his cellphone ‘by ripping it out of Bruce Fromong’s hand’ while one or more accomplices pointed or displayed a handgun. The complaint does not specify who was carrying the weapon.

Simpson has insisted he was not armed and that he went to the hotel simply to retrieve property that had been stolen from him.

‘You can’t rob something that is yours,’ Galanter said. ‘O.J. said, ‘You’ve got stolen property. Either you return it or I call the police.’

Witnesses and authorities have said that they don’t believe Simpson had a gun but that some of the men who accompanied him during the confrontation were armed.

Simpson was acquitted more than a decade ago of the 1994 murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.