Police are investigating a knife that was found, several years ago, on O.J. Simpson’s Brentwood property.
As TMZ reports, the folding buck knife was found by a construction worker a number of years ago (possibly 1998) – but is just now in the hands of investigators:
Our law enforcement sources say the construction worker took the knife to the street, where he saw an LAPD cop. He told the officer where he found the knife and the cop took it.
Turns out the cop — who worked in the traffic division — was off duty at the time, working security for a movie shoot at a house across the street on Rockingham. Our sources say the officer took the knife home and kept it … kept it for years.
And it was only this year that the LAPD found about it:
In late January of this year, after the cop retired from the LAPD, he contacted a friend who worked in LAPD’s Robbery Homicide Division (RHD). The cop told the friend about the knife and said he was getting it framed to put on his wall. He wanted his friend to get the DR (Departmental Record) number for the Nicole Brown Simpson/Ronald Goldman murder case, which he planned on engraving in the frame.
We’re told the friend was indignant, and told his superiors. The brass was outraged and demanded that the retired cop turn the knife over, which he did.
Our sources say the knife is currently being tested for hair and fingerprints. It will be moved to the Serology Unit next week, where it will be tested for DNA and other biological evidence.
Police caution that the investigation into the knife is still in its early phases.
O.J. Simpson was found not guilty of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman in 1995.
