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12/04/2001 - Updated 08:10 AM ET FBI, DEA serve warrant at home of O.J. Simpson

MIAMI (AP) — Authorities searched O.J. Simpson's home early Tuesday as part of an investigation into the importation of the drug Ecstasy and the theft of equipment used to steal satellite television signals.

Two other people had been arrested in Chicago as part of a two-year investigation, called Operation X, and nine other homes were being searched in Miami, FBI spokeswoman Judy Orihuela said. She said Simpson had not been arrested or indicted.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the Miami-Dade Police Department joined the FBI in the search.

Agents arrived at Simpson's house around 6 a.m. ET and the former football great was at home, officials said. In a shot from a television helicopter, Simpson could be seen walking in the backyard in a bathrobe.

Orihuela said the ring imported Ecstasy from Holland and stole equipment used to counterfeit cards that activate satellite television receivers.

"People steal these machines and make these cards, then they get free satellite TV," Orihuela said.

Ecstasy is a high-power stimulant that enhances the senses and can cause hallucinations.

Simpson attorney Yale Galanter did not immediately return a call to his office seeking comment.

The incident was not Simpson's first with the law since he moved to the Kendall neighborhood 15 miles southwest of Miami a few years ago.

Simpson was acquitted in a Miami trial Oct. 24 of grabbing another driver's glasses and scratching the man's face in a road-rage argument the former football star insisted was started by the other guy.

Simpson was cleared of criminal charges in the 1994 slayings of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman in Los Angeles, but a civil jury later ordered him to pay $33.5 million for their deaths. He moved to Florida last year.

He is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, playing for the Buffalo Bills and San Francisco 49ers.

-- Anonymous, December 04, 2001

Answers

I looked him up one day in the county property records. Interesting what you can find out there...

-- Anonymous, December 04, 2001

Do tell, Barefoot! (:

Would Simpson still find trouble to get into if he were dropped into a small town in the middle of nowhere with no drugs?

-- Anonymous, December 04, 2001

Since when does a small town not have illicit drugs? LOL As long as there is a golf course he'll be able to manage, I'm sure...

Link to Miami Dade property records, map version. I can only access them using IE, Netscape doesn't like it. You can also try the Tex t Version but it won't show you an arial view of his property.

Just Type in his name in the owner name search box. I use the initial O since I can't remember how to spell his name. here it is,

30-5009-000-1080 ORENTHAL J SIMPSON 9450 SW 112 ST [that is the folio number, btw.]

He bought it in September of 2000, for $575,000.00

Let me know if you have any problems accessing the site.

-- Anonymous, December 04, 2001