TAPES SHOW JAVON WALKER GETTING IN CAR

Oakland Raiders wide receiver Javon Walker was seen entering a car under his own power at the Bellagio the morning he was found beaten and unconscious, it was learned Friday.

Metro police have surveillance tape of Walker getting the car and it doesn’t match the abduction story Walker told a Web site on Tuesday, the source said.

It does not appear on the tape that Walker is being coerced, the source said.

Bill Cassels, spokesman for the police department, said he could not comment beyond saying that there is an ongoing investigation.

Walker was found in a pool of blood about 7:30 a.m. Monday about a block east of Las Vegas Boulevard. The Hard Rock Hotel has confirmed Walker left Body English nightclub sometime after 3 a.m., after spraying clubgoers with champagne.

A Hard Rock public relations representative said it has no further information on when Walker left the property.

"I was just back at my room, and at about 5:30 in the morning," Walker told TheDirty.com, "I got a knock at the door. I opened it, and three guys with guns were there. They cracked me in the head a few times, knocking me unconscious. They then robbed me of everything I had; my watch, money, everything. Somehow they got me to a car and dropped me off in the street. That’s what happened."

Nik Richie, who reported the abduction story on his Web site, TheDirty.com, confirmed in an interview with Vegas Confidential that he talked to Walker on Tuesday, the day after the alleged incident.

"He’s a good friend of mine," Richie said in a telephone interview from Scottsdale, Ariz.

Richie said he called Walker to see how he was doing and the former NFL All-Pro wideout agreed to talk about what happened on one condition:

Walker wanted to shoot down the rumors, said Richie, that the champagne spraying had created any issues with boxing champion Floyd Mayweather Jr., who was with his entourage at a nearby table at Body English nightclub at the Hard Rock Hotel.

"That’s why he agreed to talk," said Richie.

Walker, who suffered a moderate concussion, a broken eye socket and other facial injuries, was released from Sunrise Hospital on Wednesday. He was found in a driveway at the Summer’s Bay Resort on Winnick Ave. and Koval Lane.

Walker’s abduction story has been met with skepticism, given the 2,000 video surveillance cameras in the Bellagio, including elevators, elevator lobbies, valet areas and public lobbies.

–NORM CLARKE, Vegas Confidential