DJK hires new attorney; roommate to plead not guilty
Former University of Iowa football player Derrell Johnson-Koulianos has hired Des Moines defense attorney Alfredo Parrish to represent him.
Johnson-Koulianos, 23, faces multiple drug-related charges, including possession of a controlled substance, keeping a drug house and unlawful possession of a prescription drug, stemming his Dec. 7 arrest. Police served a search warrant at Johnson-Koulianos’ Washington Street home and allegedly found marijuana, cocaine and prescription medications.
Johnson-Koulianos, Iowa’s all-time leading receiver, allegedly admitted to using the drugs and tested positive for the presence of the drugs.
Parrish is known across the state for representing high-profile clients and has prior experience representing University of Iowa athletes, including former football player Abe Satterfield and former basketball player Pierre Pierce. Both men were charged with sexual abuse.
Johnson-Koulianos’ roommate and apparent focus of an Iowa City Street Crimes drug investigation, Brady C. Johnson, has retained West Des Moines defense attorney Timothy McCarthy II. McCarthy said he has filed an appearance and waived his client’s preliminary appearance. When the time comes, McCarthy said Johnson will enter a plea of not guilty to the charges against him.
Beyond that, McCarthy said he was ethically bound from discussing the details of the case.
“What we can say we’re going to be mounting a vigorous defense,” he said.
Police said Johnson, who has lived with Johnson-Koulianos since the beginning of the semester, was dealing large amounts of marijuana out of their residence.
Iowa Coach Kirk Ferentz told reporters he does not do background checks on players’ roommates, but could change that policy in the future. Johnson-Koulianos has been removed from the team.
Category: Iowa Hawkeyes Football
Good Lord! Does this guy Parrish have a branch office on campus?
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So the U of Iowa gets another black mark and what will DJK get? a pro contract. gee don’t you just feel for him?
what a bunch of BS
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Nooooooooooooooo kidding? Holy barf bucket, Batman, we sure never saw this coming. Hiring AlfPar is such a surprising move.
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Iowa’s very own Johnnie Cochran. I’m sure we’ll discover that all of the evidence was planted, including the urine used for testing.
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I’m sure it was just a big misunderstanding.
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Dont hate the player hate the game! GO DJK! You only did the drugs, you weren’t selling them.. Offseason workouts have begun, could be a Dallas Cowboy or Bengal by April.
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as long as he’s not a Hawkeye.
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kchawks, is that what your going to teach your kids? My GOD! Sad part is that DJK brought a bad light on the Iowa football program but he will be drafted and earn millions. I’m interested in his first MNF game that he starts, will he say what HS he went to or will he say University Of Iowa??
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Not sure what my kids have to do with my comment but if you wanted to go there, she’s not old enough to read this blog and hopefully wont look it up when she is old enough.. i was being a little facetious or alot facetious. What a joke that he was living with a convicted drug dealer and now he probably is using drug money to hire his attorney(facetiuos again)…Definitely not proud of the situation nor am I proud of DJK. I do believe in second chances but to me from what Ive heard is that KF has given him a second chances many times. Growing up he had a second chance by a caring family …I think he should say on MNF I was a Hawkeye then I screwed up royally!!
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You don’t know that it’s drug money paying for the attorney. It could well be his parents. I understand and share the frustration over this incident, but stick to the facts. I also think at this point, and after so many unfounded rumors about other players last week, that we should keep the “I have heard” comments out of our replies.
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He was being facetiuos, re-read the comment. Or did he use too-big of words for you.
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When I played for the Hawkeyes under Fry, the athletes lived together in Hillcrest. Why don’t we have an athletic dorm system today? It would eliminate the “living with a drug dealer” problem, and maybe build some team cohesion.
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It makes sense, doesn’t it? I’m sure today, however, it would be considered “cruel and unusual” or a “violation of civil liberties” or some other ACLU, PC BS.
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I agree.
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It seems a little ridiculous to have to tell a 23 year old man where to live. If he can’t run his life by age 23, how can you stop him from doing drugs, no matter where he lives?
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Man I am glad I am not the only one arguing for the athletic dorm system. I posted a comment a couple days ago about how the UoI has payed over $120k for home game football team hotel stay for the 7 home games in 2009. One reason Gary Barta is for it is because: “Staying in a hotel provides a controlled environment.” In the same article there is Bob Elliot talking about how “everybody lived in the dorm” back in the day just like you suggested sehawkeye. So, in my opinion, if you add up Ferentz’s pay raise and football teams hotel cost you come close to $800k (annual savings btw). For that kind of money you can build a nice dorm. It would help provide a controlled environment and promote team camaraderie. It makes perfect sense. Hayden Fry new what he was doing back in the day.
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Here is the link http://hawkcentral.com/2010/08/29/iowa-football-college-teams-get-a-good-nights-rest-%e2%80%94-at-a-cost/
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i am pretty sure residence halls are a little more then $800k…you are talking more in the range of $4 million dollars (that is the cost to build a 500 bed residence hall at a state university recently)
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Right, that’s why I noted $800k annualy so over 5 years it would be well over $4 mil with interest and it would take probably that long to plan, approve and build it.
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Approximately 3% of the team (100 players, 85 on scholly) seem to have a problem each year…..They also really stand out much more than an average college student (I’m talking about size here) – think Kyle Calloway (Sp?) on the moped….
So….If they built a dorm just for the team, The Iowa City PD would have to build a sub-station in the lobby. It would make thier jobs so much easier. Think of the transportation cost savings alone.
Each “scholly” earning student would get their own 8X10 room, 3 squares, daily shower rights, release for supervised excercise, and the opportunity for an education – they could even suggest a dress code – how about a black/gold striped carhart coveralls?
DJK was at best a 3rd rounder, how about focusing on some more imprtant things.
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So you are against athletic dorms because 3% of the team “seems” to be criminal, and they are all the size of Kyle Calloway (reeeaally BIG, right), and one would have to build a reeeaally BIG dorm to fit them all into, and one would need to station many reeeaally BIG and scary police man to handle the reeeeaaally BIG Kyle Calloways, and they would all wear reeeeaally BIG coveralls, and “DJK was at best a 3rd rounder”.
Dude, you can’t write a simple, meaningful comment and you want me to focus on “important things”. It’s nothing personal, but cut the jibber jabber. You sound like Ferentz at the last press conference. I found out that the NCAA still doesn’t allow dorms, so you can chill out.
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I guess showing up for every 7:30am Friday Rhetoric class actually paid off.
Glad you got my point mthawkeye.
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whatever guy
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Tom,
Interesting post, espeically considering you’ve been dead for a decade. Would it be a more important story if DJK was a first rounder? I don’t get that reasoning.
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tsnyder…very funny! I guess the only thing you left out was bars on the windows!
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Yuk yuk yuk…hee haw…hee haw…hee haw
If you guys are in here to try out your comedy acts, they aren’t working. You need to take it on the road and work out the kinks.
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Drug use should be legalized. Then we’d have fewer criminals.
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“Yeah, Bevis, and murder too, Heh-heh.”
- Butthead
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NCAA does not allow athletic dorms anymore.
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I guess you are right. Here is the rule: “Athletics dormitories shall be defined as institutional dormitories in which
at least 50 percent of the residents are student-athletes. (Adopted: 1/10/91 effective 8/1/96, Revised: 11/1/01 effective
8/1/02)”. I guess they could split the team and put them in dorms but that would defeat the purpose. Is it time to change the rule?
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Here is the link:
http://www.ncaapublications.com/productdownloads/D111.pdf
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Makes sense that the NCAA would find a problem with athletic dorms. What a bunch of self serving idiots.
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Maybe it’s time to give the NCAA its walking papers. What good are they? All they do is protect the business of football at the expense of players who become the equipment…unpaid, as well. Please, don’t anyone bring up that their pay is their scholarhips to go to school. They aren’t even allowed to work. I love college football, but to call it a sport anymore is a joke. KF makes $3.75 million a year…the players live on peanuts…what’s wrong with this picture. College football is the minor league of the NFL, who at least should be fronting some of the costs.
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Agreed. The players generate all the money (merchandise, ticket sales, etc.) and they don’t get paid squat.
They need to restructure the NCAA, change some of the stupid rules and implement a playoff system.
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Or the NFL could just start a farm club system, and all the ******* pretending to be college students could just stop pretending, the univesities could return to pretending to educate their students, and all the bubbas’ could watch the ants walk up and down the sidewalk and shut up about what universities should do. Ask a real student what an education at the U of I costs – around 10K a year now? The ‘tards are overpaid – time to make sports scholarships performance based – deliver a Big 10 or national championship, or get cut – the local bubba’s aren’t going to keep buying from the Hawk Shops without some kind of payoff.
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I get a cookie — I called the move by Alfredo last week. Whenever there’s scum Iowa affaleetes to defend, there’s Al.
Didn’t see Tim McCarthy slithering into the scene, although that’s no surprise.
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That’ll be a ten thousand dollar plea bargain for DJK.
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And no doubt it will be pushed off on to one of Al’s lackeys…. until the television cameras show up. They sorta have a magnetic appeal to Al.
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You fellows sure are bitter. Had a bad life? Get over it. None of this is any of your business anyway.
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So how is it any of your business then AzSquawk?
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Squawk’s had a bad life. Hadda go to Az.
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After having to hear every ESPN announcer go on and on about how some team’s quarterback and leading reciever are roommates and how this some how is supposely the reason they are so good or whatever I’m so glad DJK and Stanzi weren’t roommates
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For the kind of money being spent on this whole mess, we could have rented Cam Newton for the season. The best quarterback money can buy. He made a winner out of Gene Cheeze Whiz, which must make the Cyclones wonder if it wasn’t really Gene that was the problem, after all.
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Bringing Iowa State back into the picture again, huh Squawk. Another irrelevant comment from the Hypocrite.
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It is amazing to me how bad the information is on this case. Everyone is burning the roomate at the stake, almost to give DJK an excuse. I have no idea who was at fault, but the roomate has never been arrested for drugs. Buying, selling or doing. The only charge against him prior to now was a DUI and possibly a drug tool (like a pipe). Not good but not an Escobar Columbian drug lord that everybody is making him out to be. Facts are only as good as what you want to believe. Let’s see how it plays out for both.
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Couldn’t agree more. Most people posting here have created their own “facts”. And hiring Parrish is a no brainer. There’s nothing wrong with being good at what you do. There is a justice system here that handle this case. If you don’ like public trials and the right to mount a defense, look into relocating to China.
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How “good at what you do” do you have to be to plead “guilty”. His client has already admitted he did the crimes? Was there a miscarriage of justice some where that I missed? I’m SURE DKJ was not responsible for his actions. It was his enviroment, difficult childhood, genetic disposition towards controled substances, etc…
If only the justice system worked as well as it does in China, when the criminal admits to the crime, we wouldn’t need as many “excellent” laywers.
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se, I see your ignorance of the practice of law does not prevent you from commenting. Maybe you have seen the police reports, know the range of possible charges, and also are aware of any weaknesses in the reports and consequently the prosecution’s case. I’m thinking you do not entirely understand the legal meaning admission and what will be used to prosecute DJK. The entire legal proceeding and strategies of the parties is not contained in these news articles.
And those accused of crimes in China often don’t get to admit to their crimes before they permanently disappear. You might this represents justice, until it happens to you.
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Consider the source, Dancing Bull. Sehawkeye likes to pretent he played football for Hayden Fry. I think he tried our for cheerleading and missed the cut, but he knows everything.
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Well, unless it was the fact that DJK said “I USED DRUGS!” and tested positive for them, I guess you got a point.
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Oh, now you’re an expert on the law. You should be on the Supreme Court.
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Fart! and I wanted to be on the Supreme Court! D*A*M*N YOU SEHAWKEYE!
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Neither one of these guys in an Escobar….if there had not been a football player involved, and if DJK had just been a non-athlete student, nobody would care and no creeps like Joe F-face would be calling him a thug.
DJK had no arrrest record either, and I hope he has learned his lesson and I do hope he gets a shot at the NFL. I got sick of everybody judging the guy and not one of us even knows him.
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But DJK was a an athlete student (barf) – an athlete anyway. He was paid well, highly touted, and yet turned out to be a failure.
What particular lesson is he supposed to learn? Music? Guess it’s : “When I sing I begin with DOPE-RAPE-mi?” – unless the all the news reports are wrong…
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One thing I didn’t miss when I left Iowa after college is the small-minded, nosey gossips of the rural Midwest. Some things never change.
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And yet here you are chiming in with your worthless two cents.
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Lol – did you leave – or did they have to pay someone to take you so you would leave?
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