Alan Roman Andrus

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1. BYU GRAD STUDENT READY TO BEGIN PRO HOOP CAREER IN JAPAN, Deseret News, July 26, 1990.
2. temple wedding announcement of the accused, Provo Daily Herald, August 20, 1992.
3. Arrest Information for Alan Roman Andrus, Local Crime News, May 11, 2020.
4. Closing arguments made in ex-bishop's sex abuse case, Mountain Democrat (Placerville, California), October 31, 2025.
5. Andrus not guilty of all felony charges, Mountain Democrat (Placerville, California), November 6, 2025.

• 1. BYU GRAD STUDENT READY TO BEGIN PRO HOOP CAREER IN JAPAN

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  The latest trend in professional basketball seems to be a foreign affair, so to speak - disgruntled players looking for more bargaining power and more purchasing power, newcomers looking for a break and a buck, and aging veterans looking for a prolonged career and a prolonged contract.

  Alan Andrus, a year out of college basketball and a year into postgraduate studies at BYU, is headed overseas himself for a shot at professional basketball, international style.The former University of Hawaii player is not leaving for increased leverage to play in the NBA - the NBA is essentially out of the question. Nor is he going to Italy, Greece, Spain or any of the other high-profile, high-paying European hotbeds of pro hoops.

  Instead, Andrus is bound this week for Asia - more specifically, Japan - where he becomes the newest member of the Marubeni pro team and the newest employee of the Marubeni corporate family. Andrus is taking advantage of an opportunity in Japanese pro basketball - to become a player-employee.

  Andrus, who knows no Japanese, admits he's headed to the Far East and into his new careers somewhat inexperienced. What he does know is that Marubeni is the world's fourth-largest corporation, a trading company with subsidiaries in areas ranging from apparel to agriculture.

  The only other qualification of which the 6-foot-7, 26-year-old Andrus can boast is having served two years in Hong Kong as an LDS missionary. "I have experience living with Asian people who are two feet shorter than I am," said Andrus, who benefited from a mission-period growth spurt that allowed him to star later at Utah Technical College (now Utah Valley Community College) after not even being able to make his high school squad at Provo's Timpview High.

  Japan features several pro leagues, which play by international rules and allow the customary two U.S. players per team. Most Japanese pro teams are formed and owned by corporations, with the corporate-ownership element taken one step further than many of the European corporate teams. Professional players in Japan can - and often do - become employees of their respective corporations, working during the regular-season days or during the off-season.

  "They recruited me as much for my academics as basketball," said Andrus, who maintained a 3.6 undergrated GPA while earning his liberal arts degree.

  The Marubeni team is coached by Packy Ryan, a former University of Hawaii player who himself starred professionally in Japan. Ryan saw Andrus as a junior at Hawaii, when he averaged 13.9 points and 7.2 rebounds a game.

  Marubeni was interested from then on - no matter that Andrus' senior season on the Islands was first hindered by preseason knee surgery and then totally eliminated when prescription pain pills ate away at his stomach lining.

  Andrus' starting salary of $60,000 pales in comparison to an NBA minimum of $110,000, especially when you consider that the Japanese teams practice year-round for their November-to-March season.

  But consider the perks: Marubeni will pick up the tab for an apartment in the heart of Tokyo, travel passes for transportation, two meals daily, a round-trip flight home to Provo for the holidays, and the costs of his second and final year of post-graduate work so Andrus can earn his master's degree in organizational behavior.

• 2. temple wedding announcement of the accused

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• 3. Arrest Information for Alan Roman Andrus

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  Arrested For 289(E) - Rape By Foreign Object: (V) Intoxicated
  Arrest Date May 9, 2020

• 4. Closing arguments made in ex-bishop's sex abuse case

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  A jury is expected to begin deliberations soon in the trial of People v. Alan Andrus, a former bishop of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints accused of drugging and sexually assaulting a church member in 2019.

  Andrus’ term as bishop had concluded by the time of the alleged event. He faces three charges: one count of sexual penetration with a foreign object or substance when the victim is intoxicated, one count of attempted sexual penetration under the same circumstances and one count of sexual battery. Prosecutors Kassie Cardullo and Blair Gue of the El Dorado County District Attorney’s Office lead the case, while Linda Parisi of Sacramento’s Wing and Parisi Law represents Andrus.

  According to testimony, Andrus allegedly supplied Ambien to the victim, identified as Jane Doe, on June 4, 2019, and touched her sexual parts as she drifted in and out of consciousness at her El Dorado Hills home. During closing arguments, Cardullo walked jurors through the evidence and said Andrus’ own words left no reasonable doubt about his guilt.

  Jurors heard an audio recording Doe made the day after the reported incident in which Andrus appears to describe the effects of Ambien on her and others. 

  “You know what’s great? Is I can’t wait until it kicks in, because then you do what I say. If I say you dance with a pencil, you’re going to dance with a pencil,” Andrus is heard saying on the recording. He's also recorded as telling Doe, “It would be like if someone spiked your drink, you didn’t know you were drinking alcohol so there is no sin.”

  In the same conversation, when Doe asked whether she could have consented to sexual activity, Andrus replied, “No.” He also described using Ambien with his wife.

  “Sometimes she’s not in the mood. I get that. But now it’s so awesome, because if she’s not in the mood she knows in 15 minutes she will be,” Andrus said about his wife.

  Prosecutors also presented testimony from a second woman, Jane Doe 2, who alleged that Andrus sexually assaulted her in the early 1990s while the two attended Brigham Young University in Utah. She said she awoke to find Andrus digitally penetrating her vagina, causing her to freeze out of fear.

  The defense urged jurors to question the credibility of both women and the thoroughness of the investigation. 

  “There was a victim in this courtroom; it was the truth,” Parisi told jurors. 

  She argued that while Andrus and Doe both engaged in infidelity, “That is not a crime.”

  Parisi points to a video from Doe the night of the incident, allegedly showing her dancing — evidence the defense maintains contradicts her story. Parisi also pointed to the lack of physical evidence, including the absence of male DNA on a tampon Doe provided to police. 

  “This is not the voice of a victim; it is the voice of a storyteller,” Parisi said.

  The defense also disputes that Doe had been drugged, arguing she voluntarily took Ambien and continued interacting with Andrus afterward, even visiting his home to pick up her son. Parisi reminded jurors that inconsistencies and missing evidence should lead to one conclusion: “We have questions about this investigation, and when you have questions, you have a reasonable doubt.”

  Closing arguments were expected to conclude on Thursday, Oct. 30, and it is expected that the jury will begin deliberating shortly after.

• 5. Andrus not guilty of all felony charges

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  A jury found Alan Andrus not guilty of all felony charges on Nov. 5 in the sexual assault case brought against him by the El Dorado County District Attorney’s Office, but convicted him on a lesser charge: misdemeanor simple battery.

  The verdict concludes a lengthy trial in which Andrus, a former bishop of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, faced three charges: sexual penetration with a foreign object or substance when the victim is intoxicated, attempted sexual penetration under the same circumstances and sexual battery. Jurors acquitted him of all three charges but determined he was guilty of the lesser offense tied to the third count.

  Prosecutors alleged that on June 4, 2019, Andrus supplied Ambien to a woman identified by the court as Jane Doe and sexually touched her while she was drifting in and out of consciousness inside her El Dorado Hills home. The prosecution also presented testimony from a second woman who claimed Andrus assaulted her in the early 1990s while they both attended Brigham Young University.

  The defense, led by Sacramento attorney Linda Parisi of the Law Office of Wing and Parisi Law, maintained the evidence did not support the felony allegations and urged jurors to question the reliability of the testimony provided by Doe. Parisi pointed to inconsistencies in the prosecution's account, the absence of male DNA in submitted evidence and the deletion of phone records, like videos, text messages and FaceTime calls, that could have provided further context to the events in question.

  Parisi also emphasized that Doe voluntarily took Ambien and continued to interact with Andrus in the days following the alleged assault, arguing that the prosecution’s case left significant room for doubt.

  Parisi did not respond to the Mountain Democrat’s request for comment by press time.

  Although the verdict concludes the criminal trial, a separate civil complaint filed by Doe remains pending in El Dorado County Superior Court.

  El Dorado County District Attorney Vern Pierson issued a statement following the verdict: “We deeply admire the bravery the victim showed throughout this case. Although the outcome is not what we had hoped for, we respect the jury’s verdict and the judicial process that guides our system of justice.”

  Sentencing has been scheduled for 2 p.m. on Jan. 16, 2026.