O.J.'s daughter arrested for disorderly conduct in Miami

Jet, Feb 7, 2005

O. J. Simpson's 19-year-old daughter was arrested after she refused to stop yelling at officers who had been summoned because of a right outside a basketball game involving her old prep school, police said.

Sydney Simpson was charged with resisting arrest without violence, punishable by up to a year in jail, and disorderly conduct, which carries a possible 60-day jail sentence.

Sydney yelled profanities at the officers called to Ransom Everglades School after a boys' varsity basketball game against Gulliver Prep, according to a Miami police report.

Sydney graduated from Gulliver last June. Her brother, Justin, 16, currently attends Gulliver.

"Because of the defendant's disorderly conduct, it prevented the officer from conducting an investigation," according to the report by Officer Francisco Villarreal.

While she was being taken into custody, she slapped another officer's hand, leading to the resisting arrest charge, the report said.

Two teenage girls told police that Sydney hit them in the face, but they declined to press charges, authorities said.

Yale Galanter, a Simpson family attorney, said the dispute outside the game was a "cat fight" that Sydney had resolved by the time police arrived, but officers escalated the situation.

Sydney, who attends college in Boston, signed a notice to appear at a date to be set later by court, according to police Lt. Bill Schwartz.