Former Oakland Raider faces three more murder charges

Anthony Wayne Smith, already awaiting retrial for his alleged role in a 2008 slaying, has been accused of three more killings that took place in 1999 and 2001.


Anthony Wayne Smith, a former Oakland Raiders defensive end who is awaiting a retrial for his alleged role in the 2008 murder of a Lancaster man, has been charged with three additional murders, the Los Angeles County district attorney's office confirmed Wednesday.

A criminal complaint, filed Monday, includes the original murder charge involving the slaying of Maurilo Ponce but also accuses Smith of the 1999 killings of brothers Kevin and Ricky Nettles and the murder of Dennis Henderson in 2001.

Smith also faces special circumstance allegations of torture and multiple murders, along with several counts of kidnapping and robbery, according to the court document filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court.

Sandi Gibbons, spokeswoman for the district attorney's office, said Wednesday that on or about Nov. 10, 1999, the Nettles brothers were kidnapped from a carwash business in Los Angeles. Two people posing as police officers handcuffed the men with zip-tie tape, Gibbons said. The next day, the brothers were found dead, apparently tortured and shot with a 9-millimeter handgun, she added.  More

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