*Today, Sunday, October 1, 2017, marks the day OJ Simpson was paroled from a Nevada prison after serving 9 years for robbery.
Specifically, he walked through the prison gates shortly after Midnight, a time prison officials say was utilized “to avoid any incidents and to ensure public safety.”
Prison spokeswoman Brooke Keast told TheWrap that Simpson was released at 12:08 a.m. PDT from Lovelock Correctional Center, about 90 miles east of Reno. She said Simpson left with a driver in a light-colored SUV, and that she had no idea where he went. (She didn’t know the model of the SUV, but laughed “no, no, no” when asked if it was a white Bronco.)
“There was so much extreme interest from different media sources in this release that we wanted to avoid a paparazzi situation,” she said, adding that the prison had not received any threats. “There was no media here whatsoever, so nobody followed, which was what our hope was.”
As we reported earlier, Simpson was granted parole in July after he testified to leading a “conflict-free life.” He had been incarcerated at Lovelock since 2008.
The former football star was sentenced to nine to 33 years for armed robbery and kidnapping after a 2007 standoff at the Palace Station hotel in Las Vegas, where Simpson said he was trying to recover sports memorabilia he said had been stolen from him.
In July, Simpson persuaded Nevada’s parole board to release him before his sentenced expired in 2022. Simpson told the Nevada board that he planned to move to Florida: “I could easily stay in Nevada but I don’t think you guys want me here,” he said.
Get the rest of this story at TheWrap.
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