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Police escorted New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez from his Massachusetts home in handcuffs today, 11 days after the body of his friend was found dead in an industrial park near his North Attleborough million-dollar mansion.

Hernandez sat in a police car outside of his house, buckled in by detectives, before being driven away in front of dozens of reporters and other police officers.

The charges against him are unclear but, as ABC News has reported, he had not been ruled out as a suspect in the killing of semi-pro football player Odin Lloyd, 27, who was found shot dead June 17.

Hernandez’s home and property had previously been searched by cops in connection with the slaying of Lloyd, a semi-pro football player Hernandez had been partying with prior to the killing.

Hernandez has been at the center of the investigation since Lloyd’s body was found shot in the back of the head in a scrubby clearing of an industrial park roughly a mile from the Patriots star’s $1.7 million mansion.

Hernandez was the subject of an arrest warrant drawn up Friday for obstruction of justice chargesbased on the possible destruction of evidence in connection with Lloyd’s death, ABC News reported over the weekend.

But as of late Friday, the warrant had not yet been issued by the court, according to a spokesman for the Attleborough District Court, which covers Hernandez’s town.

Police sources told ABC News that a major investigative tool — the security system at Hernandez’s home, which included video — had been intentionally destroyed. His cellphone was handed over to police “in pieces,” and appeared to have been smashed.

Police also want to know why a team of house cleaners were hired to scrub Hernandez’s mansion, the sources said.

Evidence is mounting that Hernandez and Lloyd had been together at several nightclubs during the course of the weekend, including the night before Lloyd’s body was found, several law enforcement sources told ABC News.