Simpson Back in Vegas Cell

O.J. Simpson took a nonstop flight to jail Friday evening.

Bail bondsmen plucked up Simpson, 60, in South Florida and escorted him through Miami International Airport en route to Las Vegas, where he will remain behind bars at least until Wednesday, when prosecutors will ask a judge to revoke Simpson’s bond on armed robbery and kidnapping charges.

Those charges stem from a heated confrontation Sept. 13 at the Palace Station Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. In September, Judge Joe Bonaventure Jr. ordered Simpson to not have any contact with the victims, witnesses or co-defendants in the case — not by "e-mail, telephone, mail or pigeon."

But Simpson bucked the judge’s order in November, prosecutors say, when he left the following message on his bondsman Miguel Pereira’s telephone, asking him to pass it along to co-defendant Clarence "C.J." Stewart:

"Hey, Miguel, it’s me. I just want, want C.J. to know that the whole thing all the time he was telling me that s–, you know, I hope he was telling me the truth. Don’t be trying to change the m– f– s– now, m– f– a–. I’m tired of this s–. Fed up with m– f– changing what they told me. All right?"

The voice mail was an attempt by Simpson "to dissuade a co-defendant from testifying and cooperating with law enforcement," Clark County District Attorney David Roger wrote in the motion he filed Friday.

The motion did not indicate how prosecutors learned about the voice mail. A spokesman at You Ring We Spring bail bonds in North Las Vegas, the company that posted Simpson’s bail, declined to comment when reached by The Miami Herald on Friday.

Simpson, who lives in Kendall, had been free on $125,000 bail since Sept. 19. He was charged with armed robbery, kidnapping and other felonies stemming from the Palace Station incident. He and several other men are accused of stealing hundreds of items at gunpoint from two sports-memorabilia dealers.

Simpson, Stewart and Charles Ehrlich — of Sunny Isles Beach — pleaded not guilty to the charges in November and are awaiting trial, set to start April 7. Simpson has said he saw no guns and he only intended to retrieve items that had been stolen from him.

A judge will decide whether to revoke Simpson’s bail at a 9 a.m. hearing Wednesday. If the judge grants the prosecution’s motion, Simpson would likely wait out his trial in jail.