O.J. Simpson appears to be moving ahead of release, prison official says
LAS VEGAS -- A prisons official says it appears O.J. Simpson is being moved ahead of his release on parole as early as Monday from a prison in Nevada, possibly near Las Vegas.
Nevada Department of Corrections public inmate records provided no information Saturday about Simpson's custody status or location.
Prisons spokeswoman Brooke Keast says that usually indicates an inmate is being moved in custody.
Simpson's attorney, Malcolm LaVergne, says that when he last spoke with his client he was still at Lovelock Correctional Center in northern Nevada.
Keast has said plans called for Simpson to be transferred to High Desert State Prison outside Las Vegas to be freed Sunday or after.
Officials and LaVergne haven't said when that will be.
Simpson is now 70. He has served nine years behind bars for a 2008 armed robbery involving two sports memorabilia dealers in a Las Vegas hotel room. Simpson has said he'd like to return to Florida, but that state's attorney general is trying to block the move, CBS News' Jamie Yuccas reports.
A parole board granted his release back in July after hearing testimony from Simpson himself, his daughter and one of the victims from the 2007 botched robbery that landed him in prison. Although Simpson apologized for the crime, he didn't hesitate to defend his actions.
"It was my property I wasn't there to steal from anybody and I would never ever pull a weapon on anybody," Simpson said at the hearing. "I've basically spent a conflict-free life."