Update 4:56 p.m.

ISU coach Fred Hoiberg said at a press conference Dec. 11 that senior Bryce Dejean-Jones will be suspended for the game against Iowa on Dec. 12.

The suspension will not extend beyond one game and Dejean-Jones will be back on the floor on Dec. 14 for Iowa State’s game against Southern in Ames. 

Dejean-Jones’ suspension comes on the heels of his arrest in the early morning hours of Dec. 11 after police responded to a noise complaint at his apartment complex.

The transfer guard from UNLV was charged with a nuisance party violation and a noise ordinance violation, both of which are simple misdemeanors. 

He was also arrested on the charge of “hosting a drug house” where marijuana was being used, which is a serious misdemeanor. That charge has since been dropped due to a lack of probable cause, but investigations commander for the Ames Police Department Geoff Huff said if more evidence is obtained that charge could be refiled.

Hoiberg said that the decision to suspend Dejean-Jones is not an ISU code of conduct mandate, but a personal decision made by Hoiberg himself.  

Check back with the Iowa State Daily for more of Hoiberg’s reaction as well as player reaction to the suspension of Dejean-Jones one day before the Cyclones’ contest against their in-state rival Hawkeyes, in Iowa City. 

Update 1:25 p.m.

Matt White, a junior in software engineering and the neighbor of senior Bryce Dejean-Jones, called the police early on Dec. 11, leading to the arrest of Dejean-Jones.

“I have been having issues with them [Dejean-Jones and roommate, redshirt junior Abdel Nader] for the last four months,” White said. “It has been a bunch of noise complaints, defacing property in the hallway, leaving their trash out there and being disrespectful to everyone who has ever tried to confront them about this.”

White said that he has tried to resolve this issue in numerous fashions, including calling the police more than a dozen times in the previous four months. 

White added that a meeting was convened by the Ames PD that included White, officer Eric Snyder, Dejean-Jones, Nader and ISU men’s basketball coach Fred Hoiberg.

We came to an agreement that no more noise would happen,” White said. “The trash in the hallway would stop, the being disrespectful would stop, the bass would be turned off during the week-they could have it on during the weekends and at my discretion I could text them and tell them it was getting too loud.”

White said that Hoiberg “did everything a coach should have done,” and was very direct with Dejean-Jones about how his behavior needed to change.

“They did not follow that and continued to do the same things.” 

An individual inside Dejean-Jones’ apartment did not open the door and declined to comment.

Update at 11:40 a.m.:

Senior Bryce Dejean-Jones was arrested for three charges on Thursday morning but one has been dropped, according to Story County attorney Stephen Holmes.

The first was a nuisance party violation and the second, a noise ordinance violation. The third was for “hosting a drug house” or “gathering where marijuana is used.” The third charge was dropped.

A judge determined there was not probable cause to charge Dejean-Jones with “hosting a drug house.” Holmes said that a charge could be refiled later if police are able to gather more evidence. 

Investigations commander for the Ames Police Department Geoff Huff said Ames PD is working with the county attorney’s office to determine whether they have enough information to refile a charge.

“Everything is fact-specific and fact-driven,” Holmes said. “We have to have some proof to establish that a person did what is alleged.”

The trial date for the two remaining charges will be set on Tuesday.

First report:

Senior Bryce Dejean-Jones has been arrested on numerous charges stemming from a noise complaint that was reported in the early morning hours of Dec. 11.

Ames police were called to Dejean-Jones’ home at 1221 Mayfield Drive, Apartment 310 at around 3 a.m. on the morning of Dec. 11.

Investigations Commander for the Ames Police Department Geoff Huff explained the charges facing Dejean-Jones.

“We have got three charges,” Huff said. “The first two-one of them is a nuisance party violation, which is a simple misdemeanor and [the second is] a noise ordinance violation which is also a simple misdemeanor. The third charge is a serious misdemeanor, gathering where marijuana is used.”

“Gathering where marijuana is used” as Huff called it, is another term for “hosting a drug house/marijuana,” which is the official charge listed on the Story County arrest website.

Huff explained that this is not the same charge as possession of marijuana, but that in terms of penalty, it carries a similar weight as both charges are serious misdemeanors.

The bond for Dejean-Jones’ three alleged infractions was set at a total of $1,600, according to the Story County website.

Huff said that this was not the first time officers have been summoned to the residence.

“We’ve been working with the residents out at this apartment building and the coaches and everyone else because we have been out there more than five times for similar problems of loud noise,” Huff said. “So we have been working with all these folks trying to figure out a way they could all live together and not disturb each other.

When the door was opened the officers could smell burnt marijuana coming from inside the apartment, so they got a search warrant and ended up finding marijuana in the apartment,” Huff added. “At that time of day, it is time to be quiet.”

The arrest comes one day before Iowa State was set to travel to Iowa City for a game against its in-state rival, the Iowa Hawkeyes.

The Iowa State Athletic Department and ISU men’s basketball coach Fred Hoiberg have yet to comment. ISU communications specialist Matt Shoultz, who manages communications for the ISU basketball team, said that a statement or statements can be expected soon.

Sophomore Matt Thomas and redshirt junior Abdel Nader each received immediate and indefinite suspensions for charges of driving under the influence, which carries the same classification of a serious misdemeanor as the charge against Dejean-Jones for hosting a drug house/marijuana.

Thomas and Nader were ultimately suspended for three games.