The LAPD cop at the center of the O.J. Simpson knife mystery is a retired, 25-year veteran of the LAPD.
George Maycott was a motor cop for the LAPD, who retired with a clean record in 1998. Two months after Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were murdered in 1994, Goldman shot and wounded a man who rammed his police car during a chase. Maycott was injured and taken to the hospital.
TMZ broke the story ... a construction worker at O.J. Simpson's former estate approached him with the 5" buck knife in 2002.