Former Bearcat Art Long arrested
Aug. 27, 2013


Art Long, who attended UC prior to several years in the NBA, was arrested following a search of his home on July 18. / Enquirer file photo

Written by
John Hand
The Rochester Democrat and Chonicle

Former University of Cincinnati basketball player Art Long has been charged with gun and drug crimes and connected to a drug operation that Rochester police said has been the cause of violence in the city for months.

Long, 40, who attended UC prior to several years in the National Basketball Association, was arrested following a search of his Chili home on July 18. He was charged with third degree criminal possession of a weapon, fourth degree criminal possession of stolen property and unlawful possession of marijuana.

Chief James Sheppard announced the arrest of Long and others during a press conference Monday that was called also to discuss two separate weekend shooting events in the Plymouth Avenue and Exchange Street area where the alleged drug ring has been operating over the past several months.

Sheppard said the shootings have not been connected to each other, or to the drug operation to which Long and the others arrested have been linked.

Those shootings have also not been connected to other violence in the Plymouth Avenue and Exchange Street area, including the shooting death of Willie Little, 59, on Aug. 18 on Plymouth Avenue; or the nearby shooting of three people later that night on Jefferson Avenue.

“At this point in time we do not know (of any connections),” Sheppard said. “What we do know is that we’ve had a significant amount of violent events in the Plymouth Avenue area, as a result of some of those incidents in which shots were fired and in some no one was actually hit, our investigations were initiated and these (arrests) were the results of those investigations.”

Sheppard said police had been conducting an “extended investigation” for the past five weeks that resulted in numerous arrests and numerous seizures of weapons.

On Monday, he displayed a variety of what he called “assault weapons” that he said were seized during the execution of search warrants at least three locations, including Long’s home at 35 Chi-Mar Drive in Chili:

• On July 18, a search warrant was executed at Long’s home and discovered there were a .45 caliber handgun that had been reported stolen, and a WASR 7.62 rifle.

• On July 26, a search warrant was executed at 66 Cottage St, the home of Korey and Brian Weaver, and a black 7.62 rifle and WASR 7.62 rifle were located. The two men were charged with third-degree criminal possession of a weapon.

• During a third search warrant, executed at 67 Warehouse St. which is a storage facility owned by Dominic Nicholson, a 12-gauge pump shotgun and a Crossman .22 caliber rifle were discovered. Nicholson, 24, was charged with fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon and fifth-degree marijuana possession.

“We do believe that that was an organized group in that PLEX area, and our investigation is continuing,” Sheppard said. “We believe that they were organized in terms of drug sales.”

Sheppard said the arrests made a dent in the drug operation, but “we still have some issues that we have to address because ... we’ve continued to have violent events in the area.”

Long played for a number of NBA teams between about 1999 and 2004. Attempts to reach Long were unsuccessful.

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20130...g-arrested

You would think a guy would grow up by the time he reached the age of 40.

I like how the article begins, "former University of Cincinnati basketball player." You can't buy that kind of advertising!

The gift that keeps on giving.

(08-28-2013 07:44 AM)BearcatsUC Wrote:  I like how the article begins, "former University of Cincinnati basketball player." You can't buy that kind of advertising!

The gift that keeps on giving.

They never reference what NBA teams he played for. Always a Bearcat!
His nickname was Art Doobie Long, at least that is what we called him.

Ah, sweet memories of the Huggins years...how I long for more players like Art, arrested for striking a police horse! Seriously, though, it baffles me how anyone gifted with athletic talent can ruin their lives.

Nice to se Mick getting talented players who are quality people. Hope Art can grow up and clean up his life.

Well well well....certainly no surprise. Still got to laugh at Huggins calling him the worlds worst drug dealer referencing his arrest in Kansas during recruitment. Said he got caught first time. Um rightBob.

I remember frequently seein good ole art down hanging with the dealers in the 1600 block of race during my cod days. He was always good for the good hard FU stare. Gangsta thru and thru.

(08-28-2013 08:37 AM)50Cent Wrote:  Well well well....certainly no surprise. Still got to laugh at Huggins calling him the worlds worst drug dealer referencing his arrest in Kansas during recruitment. Said he got caught first time. Um rightBob.

I remember frequently seein good ole art down hanging with the dealers in the 1600 block of race during my cod days. He was always good for the good hard FU stare. Gangsta thru and thru.

What are "cod days"?

(08-28-2013 08:40 AM)ctipton Wrote:  

(08-28-2013 08:37 AM)50Cent Wrote:  Well well well....certainly no surprise. Still got to laugh at Huggins calling him the worlds worst drug dealer referencing his arrest in Kansas during recruitment. Said he got caught first time. Um rightBob.

I remember frequently seein good ole art down hanging with the dealers in the 1600 block of race during my cod days. He was always good for the good hard FU stare. Gangsta thru and thru.

What are "cod days"?

I think it is kind of like "deadliest catch", but with people, not fish.

(08-28-2013 08:37 AM)50Cent Wrote:  Well well well....certainly no surprise. Still got to laugh at Huggins calling him the worlds worst drug dealer referencing his arrest in Kansas during recruitment. Said he got caught first time. Um rightBob.

I remember frequently seein good ole art down hanging with the dealers in the 1600 block of race during my cod days. He was always good for the good hard FU stare. Gangsta thru and thru.

First time!

What a dumb***, I mean seriously you are 6'9" and look exactly like an evil elf - the easiest guy in the world to identify. Where are you going to hide?

So when some guy gets busted for possession and the cop says, where did you get it...

"well I was downtown in OTR and I pulled up and there was a black guy, tall guy, REALLY tall"

"OK, what did he look like"

"Well he had a sort of a thin face with kind of arched eyebrows and pointy ear-"

"OK, OK you can stop, that is all we need"

(08-28-2013 08:40 AM)ctipton Wrote:  

(08-28-2013 08:37 AM)50Cent Wrote:  Well well well....certainly no surprise. Still got to laugh at Huggins calling him the worlds worst drug dealer referencing his arrest in Kansas during recruitment. Said he got caught first time. Um rightBob.

I remember frequently seein good ole art down hanging with the dealers in the 1600 block of race during my cod days. He was always good for the good hard FU stare. Gangsta thru and thru.

What are "cod days"?

Freaking iPad and auto correct....CPD. Police.

(08-28-2013 10:50 AM)50Cent Wrote:  

(08-28-2013 08:40 AM)ctipton Wrote:  

(08-28-2013 08:37 AM)50Cent Wrote:  Well well well....certainly no surprise. Still got to laugh at Huggins calling him the worlds worst drug dealer referencing his arrest in Kansas during recruitment. Said he got caught first time. Um rightBob.

I remember frequently seein good ole art down hanging with the dealers in the 1600 block of race during my cod days. He was always good for the good hard FU stare. Gangsta thru and thru.

What are "cod days"?

Freaking iPad and auto correct....CPD. Police.

Since were kind of on the topic, a coworker once told me his CPD cop friend said Huggins' drunkeness was an ongoing joke with the CPD, meaning the incident that made national tv was hardly the first time, but one of many where he got to slip by. True or not?

This is all Bob Huggins' fault.

(08-28-2013 02:03 PM)Coopdaddy67 Wrote:  This is all Bob Huggins' fault.

He recruited for talent, not for character, so to a degree your assessment is correct. He was liked my UC fans in part because he was willing to take a chance on those on the margins. The downside is that the school is forever associated with those players when they make the news for antisocial behavior.

(08-28-2013 03:34 PM)BearcatsUC Wrote:  

(08-28-2013 02:03 PM)Coopdaddy67 Wrote:  This is all Bob Huggins' fault.

He recruited for talent, not for character, so to a degree your assessment is correct. He was liked my UC fans in part because he was willing to take a chance on those on the margins. The downside is that the school is forever associated with those players when they make the news for antisocial behavior.

Yeah because the program was so clean and recruited such high character guys under Catlett and Yates before Huggins.

(08-28-2013 05:27 PM)CaliCat Wrote:  

(08-28-2013 03:34 PM)BearcatsUC Wrote:  

(08-28-2013 02:03 PM)Coopdaddy67 Wrote:  This is all Bob Huggins' fault.

He recruited for talent, not for character, so to a degree your assessment is correct. He was liked my UC fans in part because he was willing to take a chance on those on the margins. The downside is that the school is forever associated with those players when they make the news for antisocial behavior.

Yeah because the program was so clean and recruited such high character guys under Catlett and Yates before Huggins.

If there is a point you're trying to make, you didn't.

The media didn't latch on to the thug rep until Huggins. This board has moaned and moaned about it, the unfairness of it, which is ok. But the reality is, the rep occurred and we still deal with it - though it has slowly subsided over time. This thing with Art Long, however, is like picking at a scab.

(08-28-2013 03:34 PM)BearcatsUC Wrote:  

(08-28-2013 02:03 PM)Coopdaddy67 Wrote:  This is all Bob Huggins' fault.

He recruited for talent, not for character, so to a degree your assessment is correct. He was liked my UC fans in part because he was willing to take a chance on those on the margins. The downside is that the school is forever associated with those players when they make the news for antisocial behavior.

LOL here we go....

(08-28-2013 12:11 PM)BearcatsUC Wrote:  Since were kind of on the topic, a coworker once told me his CPD cop friend said Huggins' drunkeness was an ongoing joke with the CPD, meaning the incident that made national tv was hardly the first time, but one of many where he got to slip by. True or not?

Wasn't even the first time the Fairfax cops pulled him over. It was the first time they did anything about it.

I enjoyed watching Art play but he was well referenced by other teams fans when trying to make fun of UC players.

I remember Art Long well. Hope he gets straightened out.

Regarding a "thug" image under Huggins.....we've all had issues in that regard. I don't think of UC as having any more issues than any other metro/GMW/CUSA/BE/AAC program. The media just seems to feed off of it for all of us.

Good to be back in a conference with you Bearcats. Good luck this year on the field and court....except for the obvious Tiger games.

The gift that keeps on giving...

Damn near 20 years later we are still referenced in a story about a former basketball player...can't it read "former player for west virginia head coach Bob Huggins"...

This is way that chain had to be broken...25 years from now there will be some headline...Highly ranked AAU Cincinnati Basketball former player arrested for rear ending someones raskal and fleeing the scene while in nursing home

Freaking never ends...