was a Mormon bishop in Placerville, El Dorado County, California; accused of sexual abuse in 2020; as of June 2024, the case is proceeding through the trial setting process

Alan Andrus, a former LDS bishop, was arrested and accused in 2020 of drugging and sexually assaulting a member of his LDS ward in El Dorado County, California in 2019.

As of May 2023, the case disposition is still pending, as it proceeds through pretrial motions.

Andrus was a son-in-law of Kieth Merrill; 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.

Born in ~1964, served an LDS mission. Married in an LDS temple.

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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.

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