IU wrestlers arrested, suspended

Bloomington Police arrested two IU wrestlers Monday after more than a month of investigating a Dec. 3, 2006, incident in which the two were involved in a fight near Kilroy's Sports Bar, 319. N. Walnut St.\nTwo of the wrestlers have since been suspended from the team, said Frank Cuervo, an IU athletics spokesperson. \nBoth Jose E. Escobedo, 21, and Eric J. Cameron, 18, were arrested Monday. A arrest warrant for minor in a tavern has also been filed for a third IU wrestler, Ted Strychalski, who was also at Kilroy's during the incident, said BPD Capt. Faron Lake.\nEscobedo was arrested on charges of battery, a class C felony. Cameron, a freshman, was charged with illegal consumption, resisting law enforcement, criminal mischief and minor in a tavern, all misdemeanors, Sgt. Jeff Canada said, reading from a police report. \nEscobedo was charged with hitting a 22-year-old woman in the eye after an argument involving her and several other women. The woman sustained a contusion to her right cheek as well as chipped and loose teeth, according to a Dec. 5, 2006, Indiana Daily Student article.\nCameron, a resident of McNutt Quad, was accused of punching the driver's-side window of a sport utility vehicle and then jumping over the wall of the three-story parking garage, according to the article.\nCanada said Cameron was "completely incapacitated by the fall."\nBoth Strychalski and Escobedo have been suspended from the wrestling team, and Cameron is "no longer active with the team," Cuervo said.\nEric Cameron's father, Don Cameron, said after talking to eyewitnesses at the incident that he believes, despite the charges, that his son was not drinking that night and simply "lost his bearing and ... jumped over the third-story wall."\n"That's the first thing I asked the people in the hospital," Don Cameron said. "I said, 'Was he drunk?' ... and they said, 'Well, we didn't find any alcohol in him.'"\nDon Cameron said he also spoke with Escobedo after the incident.\n"I said, 'I don't know if you hit that girl or not,'" Don Cameron said. "He said, 'Mr. Cameron, honest to God, I did not hit that girl.' So I said, 'Well, I believe ya.'"\nNeither are listed on the IU Athletics Web site, www.iuhoosiers.com.\nMonroe County Jail Officer Ross Holland said Escobedo was still being held at the Monroe County Jail with a bail of $10,000 surety. Cameron was released two hours after his arrival Monday with a bail of $2,000 surety, Holland said.