An ISU student was arrested Friday by the Ames Police Department, four days after the Iowa State Daily ran a front-page photograph that showed the student pushing a flaming trash bin down Lincoln Way during the April 18 Veishea riot.

Justin Larson, freshman in pre-business, 4815 Helser Hall, has been charged with reckless use of fire and disorderly conduct, both simple misdemeanors, said Ames Police Cmdr. Jim Robinson. Larson was released on $2,825 bond.

Police began looking at video that aired on KCCI Channel 8 and newspapers that ran photos of rioters, said Ames Police Chief Loras Jaeger.

“[The paper] came out, and we began getting calls about who he was,” Jaeger said. ISU Police displayed photographs taken by amateur photographers on Iowa State’s Web site, www.iastate.edu, shortly after receiving photos from students.

“We have been sent hundreds of pictures, and I would anticipate additional people being charged,” Jaeger said.

Larson said he didn’t feel comfortable talking about the incident, but called the photo and charges inaccurate.

He said he is planning to fight the charges. He declined to comment any further.

“There is clearly a misrepresentation from persons that night who felt they didn’t have to leave because they are on public property,” Jaeger said.

He said the rioters were participating in criminal acts, as the Iowa Code states unlawful assembly is when police ask persons to leave and they refuse.

Last week, Jaeger called the riot the most violent he had seen in his tenure at ISU Police and now Chief of Police with the Ames Police Department.

Ames Police are asking for assistance from the public to identify those involved in vandalism and violent acts over the Veishea weekend.

The Iowa State Daily continues to adhere to a policy in which no photographs or other information attained while reporting a news event are shared with police or any investigating body, said Nicole Paseka, editor in chief of the Iowa State Daily and senior in journalism and mass communication.

Although photos and information published in the paper could potentially be used for an investigation, no additional information is ever provided to investigators, she said.

“To help authorities with any criminal investigation would have a chilling effect on the Daily’s ability to cover the news,” Paseka said.

“If we cooperated or assisted the investigators, we would become part of the story. Our job is to objectively gather perspectives from every side of an issue, not to help prosecute one side or the other.”