Las Vegas authorities put O.J. Simpson back in jail Saturday after accusing him of violating the terms of his bail in an armed robbery case by trying to pass a message to a co-defendant.

Simpson is currently in the Clark County Detention Center awaiting a court hearing scheduled for Wednesday, when prosecutors plan to request that his bail be revoked and he be kept in jail until trial, set for April.      

The 60-year-old took a commercial flight from Miami to Las Vegas on Friday with his bail bondsman, Miguel Pereira. He was taken in handcuffs by a police escort to the Clark County Detention Center.      

Pereira said he was unhappy because he had not been paid for handling Simpson's bail, and that he gave prosecutors a message Simpson wanted him to take to a co-defendant because he didn't want to face criminal charges.      

"He left a message instructing me to do something violating a court order," the bondsman told The Associated Press after escorting Simpson from his home in Miami. "I don't want to get involved in such a dilemma or a criminal act."      

In documents filed Friday in Clark County District Court, prosecutors say the tape-recorded message they say Simpson left for Pereira on Nov. 16 was an effort to contact co-defendant Clarence "C.J." Stewart, which violated a court order.      

"I just want, want C.J. to know that ... I'm tired of this (expletive)," Simpson is quoted as saying in the documents. "Fed up with (expletives) changing what they told me. All right?"      

Simpson's attorney, Yale Galanter, is denying the allegations. "O.J. did not try to persuade anybody to contact a witness," he told The Associated Press.

Simpson had been instructed by Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Joe M. Bonaventure in September to avoid contacting anyone involved in the case — not even by "carrier pigeon." He was freed Sept. 19 on $125,000 bail following his arrest on allegations he and several friends forcibly entered a Las Vegas hotel room and robbed two sports memorabilia dealers at gunpoint.      

Simpson has maintained that he was retrieving items that belonged to him. He, Stewart and Charles Ehrlich are scheduled to stand trial April 7 on 12 charges.