Former ISU wrestler Long arrested
February 1, 2012
Former ISU wrestler Andrew Long was arrested and charged with public intoxication, serious assault, simple assault and interference with official acts on Wednesday, according to the Ames Police Department.
Ames Police Investigations Commander Jim Robinson said Long was asked to leave Mickey’s Irish Pub on Welch Avenue around 1 a.m. on Wednesday morning but did not comply.
Robinson said the officers who were called to the scene “observed some punches” being thrown by Long before he was escorted outside. Long then took off running when an officer approached him outside the bar and was eventually caught and arrested.
Long was a runnerup at 125 pounds in 2010 for Iowa State before he was dismissed from the team in June 2010 for disciplinary reasons.
Granted a release from Iowa State, Long transferred to Penn State to wrestle under former ISU coach Cael Sanderson for the latter half of the 2010-11 season. Long would go on to place third at 133 pounds at the 2011 NCAA Championships in Philadelphia, where Penn State won its first national team title since 1953.
Long was released from Penn State in August 2011 after being charged with attempted rape, indecent assault and aggravated indecent assault.
Long currently resides in Ames, but is not enrolled at Iowa State.