O.J. Makes 911 Call
O.J. Simpson called 911, saying he was trying to get help for a woman he said had been on a two-day cocaine binge with former Los Angeles Dodgers star Pedro Guerrerro.
Simpson placed the call Sunday night from the townhouse of his 26-year-old girlfriend, Christie Prody, in southwest Miami-Dade County.
A Miami Dade police report said the 52-year-old football great told officers who showed up at the house that he was trying to get help for Prody. But Simpson and Prody later told WSVN-TV the 911 call was to get help for someone else.
"We have a problem here," Simpson was heard telling the 911 operator, according to WSVN's broadcast of the call Monday. "I'm trying to get a girl to go to rehab. ... She's been doing drugs for two days with Pedro Guerrero, who just got arrested for cocaine, and I'm trying to get her to leave her house and go into rehab right now."
Guerrero, who retired in 1992 and spent most of his 15-year career with the Dodgers, was charged with cocaine conspiracy in Miami federal court Oct. 1. Drug Enforcement Administration agents accused him of agreeing to put up the money for a nephew to buy 15 kilograms of cocaine. He posted $100,000 bond.
To the 911 operator, Simpson added: "This girl has spent the last two days doing drugs with him. Me and a friend just came over and said, 'You're going into a rehab.' She got mad, she just got her car and now she's loaded out of her mind in her Mustang driving around town. She needs to be stopped."
Calls to the homes of Prody and Guerrero today were not immediately returned.
Two police officers went to Prody's townhouse after the 911 call and found only Simpson, who was given a brochure on how to recognize and prevent domestic violence, as required by state law in any dispute involving couples, police spokesman Ed Munn said today.
In the police report, Simpson listed Prody's address as his own. Police returned Monday morning and Prody answered the door. She showed no signs of injury or impairment, Munn said.
In 1995, Simpson was acquitted of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. However, he later was found liable for their deaths in a civil trial and was ordered to pay $33.5 million in damages.
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