Alan Andrus (1963 – ) was a Mormon church member in Placerville, El Dorado County, California; was an LDS bishop from at least 2005-2007 (El Dorado Hills Ward, El Dorado Stake); in 2020, arrested and accused of drugging and sexually assaulting a victim in 2019; as of Oct. 20, 2025, a jury trial is underway.

Alan Andrus (AKA Roman Andrus) was a Latter-day Saint bishop from at least 2005 to 2007 in the El Dorado Hills Ward, El Dorado California Stake. (Sources: 2005 official Mormon church leadership directory in FLOODLIT’s possession; Village Life in Placerville, California, Jan. 17, 2007, p. 11.)

In 2020, Andrus was arrested and accused of drugging and sexually assaulting a victim in El Dorado County, California in 2019. Andrus was not a bishop at the time of the alleged crime.

As of Oct. 20, 2025, the case disposition is still pending; a jury trial is currently underway.

Andrus’s father-in law, Kieth Merrill, was commissioned by the LDS church’s First Presidency to produce the films Legacy and The Testaments, and has been a member of the Board of Trustees of Southern Virginia University and president of the BYU Alumni Association.

FLOODLIT is keeping track of this court case – El Dorado County case #P20CRF0225 in California.

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Sources

  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.

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

    • 26 Jul 1990
    • News article
    • Deseret News

  • 2. temple wedding announcement of the accused

    • 20 Aug 1992
    • News article
    • Provo Daily Herald

  • 3. Arrest Information for Alan Roman Andrus

    • 11 May 2020
    • News article
    • Local Crime News

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

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